Fionnán Sheahan

only ever said about Gerry Hutch I will make the case against X, Y or Z without naming him he was quite clever about how he did I think Ray McAdam has kind of taken the same tack but I was talking to a couple of people who it's just a little bit of an insight as we're now just over two weeks out of where the dynamic is shifting a little bit so you've got Hutch kind of coming out a lot more and kind of doing that sort of celebrity thing he did last time and we'll probably see more of that over the next couple of days and two weeks and

There was obviously the RT debate last Sunday.

The sense I'm getting is that actually Janice Boyle and Ray McCadden probably came out on top over Labour's Ruth O'Dea.

And Daniel Ennis, bear in mind, who was kind of for a long time talked about it as his to lose.

As long as he just doesn't feck it up, he'll take it.

Didn't perform particularly well, you know.

And then people just talking to a few kind of strategists in a few parties just earlier today and this morning.

One of the things they're picking up on some of the doors, particularly in sort of the, you know, the likes of Cabra and East Wall and those areas, is that there's a certain cohort of people, it seems at least based on, you know, hearsay anyway for now, that are going to vote Gerry Hutch, but have not thought about where they might put their second, third, fourth.

And really, neither were Sinn Féin, hugely.

The big beneficiaries, bear in mind this was a...

I'm pretty sure it was the first poll after the fuel protests, I think.

Yeah, there was a previous snap poll, but just the first full poll.

First full poll.

And the real beneficiaries, I suppose, were A&2 and Independent Ireland, who were at the forefront.

And A&2 went up one, it's only one, okay, it's well within the margin of error, but it's still seven, it's a record high in...

Sunday Independent Ireland thinks and Independent Ireland to nine, which put them on level with Social Democrats, another record high.

Social Democrats were unchanged, Labour then won.

As I say, Fianna Fáil, you would have seen a poll in the Business Post two, three weeks ago where it was Fianna Gael got the hit for the fuel protests.

And in this poll, it seems Fianna Fáil are getting the hit.

They went down to, and Micheál Martin's popularity dropped by six points, which is a huge jump and well outside the margin of error.