Focus groups: FG message is hitting home

Many floating voters, influenced by concerns about public services and quality of life, are overcoming their reservations about a change of government and are moving towards voting for the Fine Gael/Labour Party alternative, according to a series of focus groups carried out by research firm Red C for The Sunday Business Post.

The group discussions, carried out in Dublin and Mullingar in the first week of the election campaign, suggest that the opposition ...