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SUPPORT FOR SINN Féin has fallen while Independents and Aontú have seen in a bounce following the recent referendums, a new poll shows.
The latest Business Post / Red C poll shows mainstream parties taking a hit in the wake of the massive No No vote in the family and care referendums earlier this month.
Polling was conducted before the shock resignation of Leo Varadkar this week, however.
Support for Sinn Féin has fallen three percentage points to 25% from 28% last month. The party’s fortunes have bounced up and down in recent polls, sitting at 25% in January and 29% in December.
Sinn Féin still remains the most popular party in the country by a wide margin.
The Government parties have also taken a hit post-referendum, with Fine Gael now at 19% and Fianna Fáil remaining at 16%. The Green Party has 4% support.
With the exception of some Independents and Aontú and its one sitting TD Peadar Toibín, every political party in the Dáil campaigned for a Yes Yes vote. This is reflected in the latest poll which sees support for Aontú jump to its highest level of 5%.
Independents’ popularity has also shot up, now sitting at 17%.
The full state of the parties is:
Sinn Féin 25 (-3 )
Fine Gael 19 (-1)
Fianna Fail 16 (nc)
Social Democrats 6 (-1)
Aontú 5 (+2)
Greens 4 (+1)
Labour 3 (-1)
PBP-Solidarity 3 (nc)
Independents 17 (+3)
The margin of error is usually +/- 3%.
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This was actually the work of a secret government experiment underground. There are 8 letter in bulls**te, minus 1 is 7. 6 letters in “Madrid” plus 1 is 7, 7+7 is 14, same number alonso used to wear at Liverpool. Therefore the UK is the next target for fart bombs…
The cult of Frank!!
Went to the alhambra in granada years ago. The architects hundreds of years ago factored these quakes into their building designs and placed lead inside the stone columns. This enabled them to sway slightly. Clever lads in fairness. Well worth a visit.
The earthquake that struck Lorca was not 10km deep, it was only 1 km deep. This was extremely unusual. It explains why this modest earthquake caused so much damage. Today’s earthquake is more typical, at a depth of 8 miles. It should not be as bad.
Some scientists claimed the Lorca earthquake was provoked by water wells that removed ground water, that the removal of water reduced pressure that otherwise clamped the fault shut, allowing it to move.
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/spanish-quake-was-manmade-study-3266682.html
We had a large 7.1 quake in the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Off the west coast Of Ireland on 13th
That’s big for the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge, very interesting. It was on Charlie-Gibbs fracture zone. Here’s a nice article about the earthquake.
Ay caramba!
Paul Murphy is on his way, he blamed the quake on the local police!
I knew it wasn’t the journal reporting this when I spotted they didn’t mix moment magnitude and the Richter scale.
And the mixture of metric and imperial.
It’s maddening. Nobody has used the Richter scale in decades.
The moment magnitude scale (abbreviated as MMS; denoted as MW or M) is used by seismologists to measure the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy released. The magnitude is based on the seismic moment of the earthquake, which is equal to the rigidity of the Earth multiplied by the average amount of slip on the fault and the size of the area that slipped.The scale was developed in the 1970s to succeed the 1930s-era Richter magnitude scale (ML). Even though the formulae are different, the new scale retains the familiar continuum of magnitude values defined by the older one. The MMS is now the scale used to estimate magnitudes for all modern large earthquakes by the United States Geological Survey.
There’s absolutely no threat from Fionna Foil so long as Mehole is in charge
Do you know any kind of earthquake early warning app? I found one here http://remotegun.com/earthquake-early-warning-system but it is under development right now. do you know another one?
All hail the glorious frank…
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