A Red C poll published in Sunday's Business Post indicates a rise in support for Fine Gael.
According to RTE, the poll, which was carried out between Monday and Wednesday of last week, also indicates that the Labour Party "could be vulnerable to further erosion."
Fine Gael gained two points to 34%; Fianna Fáil gained one to 19%, while Labour dropped one to 13%.
Sinn Féin and Independents and others dropped one point to 17%.
When questioned about the state of Ireland under the coalition, 41% said it was heading in the right direction, while 50% say it is on the wrong track. 9% did not know.
The poll also asked how strongly committed supporters of the two coalition parties are.
39% of Fine Gael voters are loyal, while 46% said they are becoming disillusioned. 15% are losing faith in the party.
However, only 14% of Labour voters are loyal, with 52% becoming disillusioned, and 34% saying they are losing faith.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.gobdawpaddy | Oct 30, 2012, 09:35 AM EDT
What alarms me is that support for fianna fail is creeping back. The Irish electorate have very short memories. It was just two years ago that the then FF led Irish government had to hand over the country's sovereignty because of it's own incompetence. The job losses,cutbacks in benefits, increased charges, loss of value in home values etc. as a result of the gombeenism in the previous government have devasted families all over Ireland, yet 19% of the Irish electorate would vote for them if an election were held today??? Of course I recall being in Ireland in 2010 during a by election in Donegal, after the IMF had arrived and the country was heading down the tubes, when a voter was asked what he thought the most important issue in that election was, he replied 'I suppose de roads'. The Irish electorate haven't exactly exuded intelligence in their recent past. I note the ridicule hurled at Enda Kenny's picture appearing on the front page of Time magazine and the award bestowed upon him in Berlin recently. I would think this kind of exposure is preferable to a taoiseach being ridiculed as a 'drunken moron' on Jay Leno, as was the fate of the last occupant (FF) of the taoiseach's office. While I haven't voted in Ireland in a long time, I am delighted to interpret the support for Fine Gael in this poll as possibly recognition by the Irish electorate that its current government inherited a tremendous mess and it will take a lot of time and hardship, to get out of it.
aloistmartin | Oct 29, 2012, 04:25 PM EDT
Sorry: ( Far Right / Right / Left / Far Left / Alois Saint-Martin ? )
aloistmartin | Oct 29, 2012, 04:24 PM EDT
Odd that as the American Presidential Elections get Tighter and Tighter, the Global Class War Polarization differentiation, becomes Wider and Wider ? ( Right / Left / Far Left ? ) I. Really believe Labor is " Doing Itself In " by "Nosing Up" on the Wrong Side Of The Street @?
Curitiba | Oct 29, 2012, 11:30 AM EDT
In other news, there was shock as 34% of voters in Ireland were found to have been lobotomised.