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GOVERNMENT DEPUTIES WILL sleep a little bit easier tonight as a new opinion poll reveals an increase in support for Fine Gael and Labour… again.
However, while independents and others remain far ahead, the latest Red C/Sunday Business Post poll reveals support for them at 28%, down two points.
This is despite the Independent Alliance and Lucinda Creighton’s yet-to-be-named party gaining further momentum.
Sinn Féin has taken a significant knock in support, tumbling four points to 20%.
A relatively quiet period in the lifetime of the Coalition is potentially the cause of this further boost of three points each, bringing Fine Gael to 24% and Labour to 9%.
The two parties are hoping this could continue to improve in future polls, as the public begins to feel the effect of Budget 2015 in their first pay cheques of the new year.
Support for Fianna Fáil remains uncharged at 19%.
Gavan Reilly / TwitterPOLL: Of the 28% for Inds/others:
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) January 24, 2015
Non-aligned Inds 24%
Greens 2%
PBP 1%
Remainder (incl AAA, SP, Ross alliance and Lucinda party): 1%
1,000 people were surveyed between Monday and Wednesday this week.
Government parties were up five points in a separate opinion poll earlier this month.
Originally published 6.25pm
Poor monkey
He deserves a good spanking
They wouldn’t do that to a human who went around terrorising people.
The science of rehabilitating bitey monkeys is in a nascent state.
Could those people that got bitten contacted any disease.
One monkey , 280 ppl lol .
should a just hit him with a monkey wrench or gave him toast but ya have to gorilla first .rip outbreak monkey.
Food shortage?
Think they’ll find he joined Real Madrid for around €100 mill recently! Search over!
Great! Man creates problem, man solves problem. Poor creature.
That monkey was bananas
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