Alan Barrett
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502 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2026
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And I guess one of the sort of headline grabbing dimensions of it is that increase in support for independent Ireland.
So, I mean, it's plus three up to nine percent, but proportionately, I mean, that's a 50 percent increase in their support.
It could well be.
And I think, again, seasoned watchers of both will always sort of say it's the long run trend is what really matters rather than the, you know, the once off.
But in the context, actually, of once off trend, one of the other interesting thing is Sinn Féin on 22 percent, where they do seem to be stuck.
I mean, again, it's part of the commentary in the papers today.
That if you go back in the last all and where Sinn Féin were at various stages, I mean, we have a very unpopular government.
And so it seems, and I think Niall already has mentioned this, the 67% disapproval rating.
Normally, you would see the support hemorrhaging from government parties and spilling over to the main opposition party.
That doesn't seem to be happening here.
But the specific point that Kevin Cunningham is making in his article is that when they ask questions of the independent Ireland and drill down into the results, the antagonism towards the government amongst the independent Ireland and AIM2P just seems to be particularly strong.
which suggests then that as things unfold over time, the probability of that group moving back to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is probably limited.
Again, a host of other issues, though.
You know, one of the questions that's raised in another article in the papers today is where does this place Sinn Féin in terms of potential coalition partners?
Well, there's a sort of a curious result.
Obviously, if we go back to what became known as the Connolly Coalition, there did seem to be a sense that there was a coalition of partners on the left beginning where Sinn Féin, possibly Labour and the Social Democrats.
But again, if you look at the poll numbers, the group that seemed to be sort of most in favour of the protesters are fitting into the Sinn Féin, Independent Ireland and Ain't Too Brackets group.
whereas there was less support for the... For the protests.
The protests, exactly, amongst the others.
So you have this sort of schism, in a sense, sort of building where people who would have been thought to be the natural partners for Sinn Féin may no longer be the case.
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