Latest poll numbers show neither Government nor Opposition all that popular with electorate
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan

Latest poll numbers show neither Government nor Opposition all that popular with electorate

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202647 min
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Pat Leahy and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: In the first Irish Times national poll since February, the lack of movement in party support points to an electorate not wholly enamoured by the incumbent Government but not exactly enthused about the alternatives either. One of the big contradictions arising from the poll is around the question of a united Ireland. A clear majority of 68 per cent feel the Government should begin preparations for possible Irish unity, but only a small minority of voters would...

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You're listening to The Irish Times. It's Friday, September the 25th and you're very welcome to the Inside Politics Wrap of the Week from The Irish Times. I'm Hugh Linnahan joined in studio today by Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahey. Hello to you both.

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Hi Hugh. Hello Hugh. Pat, it's a poll week, always a big week in The Irish Times. How many of them do we do a year, two or three? Well we have a template where we would do four polls a year, one in February, one in

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June for the summer, one in September, early October for the budget and then one at the end of the year in December. Sometimes we change that around, I've changed that around quite a bit in recent years. Obviously in an election year we would do more, we would do the exit poll and also we didn't do a June poll as no doubt listeners will have

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