Opinion polls come under fire when they fail to predict the outcome of an election or referendum, but Irish evidence suggests ...

Sinn Féin annoys unionism because it always seems to get its own way. A few years of Mary Lou squirming – or even booted from ...

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said it is “not reasonable” to ask party representatives about IRA atrocities during ...

Ireland is heading to the polls in a snap general election scheduled for 29 November. The governing Fine Gael and Fianna Fail ...

Newly-appointed SDLP leader Claire Hanna also topped the leaders’ popularity poll with a rating of 54%, some 15 points more ...

Michelle O’Neill’s popularity has plunged in the wake of the child protection scandals that have engulfed Sinn Fein, but ...

Yet when Mr Harris replaced Leo Varadkar in April, he insisted that the coalition formed by his party along with Fianna Fáil and the Greens was committed to seeing out its full term. This would have ...

Two big coalition parties have a combined support of 43 per cent with Mary Lou McDonald’s party running at half their 2022 ...

The latest Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll found that support for Fianna Fail has increased one point to 20 per cent, ...

A year ago, rioters torched Dublin’s city center in an explosion of the anti-immigration rage that populist politicians ...

Brian Stanley ran for Sinn Féin in 2020 and topped the poll with about twice as many first preferences as anyone else. He ...

Almost twice as many unionists as nationalists believe power-sharing will collapse before the 2027 Assembly election.