{"id":429093,"date":"2026-05-02T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:14:07","slug":"rise-in-support-for-independent-ireland-and-aontu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429093\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in support for Independent Ireland and Aont\u00fa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new opinion poll suggests a rise in support for Independent Ireland and Aont\u00fa.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks Poll puts Independent Ireland on 9%, a rise of three percentage points on the last such poll in April.<\/p>\n<p>Support for Aont\u00fa is up one point to 7%, putting the two parties on a combined 16% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>TDs from both Independent Ireland and Aont\u00fa spoke at various fuel protests last month.<\/p>\n<p>The survey suggests support for Fianna F\u00e1il has fallen, down two points to 17%. Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has also seen a six-point drop in his approval rating among the voters surveyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tpe\" data-embed=\"flourish\" data-id=\"28795948\" data-ot-category=\"C0004\">We need your consent to load this flourish contentWe use flourish to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.<a class=\"blocked-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0502\/1571477-opinion-poll-ireland\/javascript:void(0);\" onclick=\"OneTrust.ToggleInfoDisplay()\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael is unchanged at 17%.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in remains the most popular party in polling &#8211; its standing is unchanged at 22%.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Democrats is on 9%, the Labour Party is on 4%, the Green Party is on 3% and Solidarity\/People Before Profit are on 2%.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was carried out yesterday through an SMS survey of 1,774 adults.<\/p>\n<p>The margin of error is plus or minus 2.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Political parties will closely study the findings of the survey with an eye to this month&#8217;s bye-elections in Dublin Central and Galway West, although results in bye-elections do not always chime with national opinion polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new opinion poll suggests a rise in support for Independent Ireland and Aont\u00fa. The Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-429093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}