{"id":429804,"date":"2026-05-03T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429804\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:16:11","slug":"kevin-cunninghams-poll-analysis-fianna-fail-and-fine-gael-will-struggle-to-win-back-voters-who-have-switched-to-independent-ireland-and-aontu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429804\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Cunningham\u2019s poll analysis: Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael will struggle to win back voters who have switched to Independent Ireland and Aont\u00fa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Rise of right-wing parties is thanks in part to urban-rural divide exposed by recent fuel protests\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777788971_830_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Sunday Independent \/ Ireland Thinks Poll <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This was coming. Independent Ireland\u2019s record rise to 9pc and Aont\u00fa\u2019s record high of 7pc in today\u2019s Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks poll represent a moment in Irish politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While Fine Gael remains stable and Fianna F\u00e1il is down two points, a section of their former voters who had declared themselves undecided since the last election has swung in behind the two newer parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rise of right-wing parties is thanks in part to urban-rural divide exposed by recent fuel protests The Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16253,895,3775,171749,61,60,3581,1843,43,70,3415,1419],"class_list":["post-429804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aontu","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-fuel-protests","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leo-varadkar","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-simon-harris","tag-sinn-fein","tag-social-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429804","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=429804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}