Following a very vanilla budget, the verdict is in on how people perceive the government and opposition parties - and there are no obvious winners
A new Sunday Business Post/Red C poll finds SF with its second poll decline in a row. Meanwhile, Fine Gael remains ahead of Fianna Fáil - and Labour, Greens and Independents all reap gains
FF rises two points, but faces a Hobson’s choice of being a junior coalition partner or propping up FG in opposition
Only time will tell if this is part of a trend back to a largely two-party system
Fine Gael had hoped its new leader would get a honeymoon bounce, but this poll result will dampen down any desire to call an early election
If there was an election tomorrow, the next Dáil would look more or less the same as the current one
Despite these gains, movements have on the whole been within the margin of error
The latest Sunday Business Post/Red C poll gives FF its highest result in nearly a year
Another election may end up with Fianna Fáil holding power and Fine Gael supporting supply and confidence
Political street fighting is getting results for Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil has spent the winter sapping the popularity of Sinn Féin and the government
Growing inequality and a feeling on the part of many people of ‘being left behind’ is the cri de coeur
The latest result could be dismissed as a rogue poll, or a once-off bump
The latest Red C poll is a mixed bag, but it shows that the public are mostly sticking to the choices they made in the election last February
Fine Gael support has weakened since Christmas, but the party retains a strong lead on economic competence
