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It is very likely that over the coming months, the public are going to be confronted with the spectacle of dozens, if not hundreds, of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael candidates for the county council telling voters on the doorsteps and on the local airwaves that their national party leadership is entirely wrong on immigration.
The social scientists can play with social media data all they want, but there is no substitute for voting, and there never should be.
Three quarters of us are satisfied with the performance of our local gardai.
Far be it from me to second-guess Colette Browne, the communications director for the Social Democrats, but in her position I am not sure that I would have agreed, during a cost of living crisis, to have my party leader photographed for the Sunday Independent wearing made-to-order clothes with a labelled value of over €1000. […]
All of this demonstrates the peril in which news organisations increasingly find themselves.
Apparently it’s easier to pay for a poll than it is to read one
But data can be accurate, and misleading, in a number of ways.