Prices up 25% in just 5 years
Plus 80% support winding down supports for Ukrainians
They richly deserve this, do Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
Politics is not actually conducted for your benefit.
The public may well share the concerns of those protesting on the specific issue of immigration, but on almost every other cultural touchstone the public is more aligned with the mainstream.
This evidence was there in the polls: As we went into the final week, it was clear that the more people heard about the proposals, the less sure they were about them.
This is a Government – and in fact an entire political class – with very low levels of respect and admiration from the public by historical standards.
you’d be foolish to bet heavily against our current crop of Ministers, minus maybe the Greens, getting another go at this.
The first thing to note here is that the pollster – Dr. Kevin Cunningham of Ireland Thinks – is one of the best in the business.
In this atmosphere, the prospect of all the major players bleeding votes to alternative options at the next election is high
All of this demonstrates the peril in which news organisations increasingly find themselves.
Downward trajectory.