“You can’t govern by opinion polls.”
What the opinion polls are now effectively telling us is that there is no political opposition in Ireland.
Increasingly the point of news organisations is to defend and justify the status quo, rather than to challenge it.
That’s a reality that is harder to shout down or dismiss.
On the one hand, everybody’s talking about Stephen Kenny’s job performance after a 1-0 defeat at home to Luxembourg. The team seemed lacklustre, toothless, and lacking in any kind of identity. The best thing you could say about the Irish performance on Saturday night is that all eleven players were definitely there, on the pitch, […]
The bad news for Donald Trump, in this new poll from the excellent Ireland Thinks (which increasingly does polling on interesting questions that other companies just don’t) is that if Ireland was the 51st state of the Union, it would be the most Democratic state there is. Even in ultra-liberal Vermont, Trump will get something […]
Trump would do well to tread carefully when the stakes are so high for his nation, if he really is intent on making his country great (again?).
If you had a good weekend, and headed off somewhere, then it is very likely that you did not see the news over the weekend that the Sunday Business Post published a new opinion poll on the state of the parties, with probably less than six months to go until a general election. If you […]