{"id":437739,"date":"2026-05-07T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437739\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:15:13","slug":"poll-suggests-small-lead-for-sean-kyne-in-galway-byelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437739\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll suggests small lead for Se\u00e1n Kyne in Galway byelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fine Gael\u2019s Se\u00e1n Kyne holds the slimmest of leads over Independent Ireland rival Noel Thomas in the Galway West byelection campaign, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/07\/galway-west-byelection-opinion-poll-fine-gael-sean-kyne-independent-noel-thomas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Times\/TG4<\/a> opinion poll.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, carried out by Ipsos B&amp;A, has the Fine Gael candidate on 17 per cent, with Thomas on 16 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Labour candidate Helen Ogbu is on 12 per cent, with the Social Democrats M\u00edde Nic Fhionnlaoich on nine per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna F\u00e1il&#8217;s Cillian Keane is on eight per cent, with Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s Mark Lohan one back on seven, along with Independent Mike Cubbard.<\/p>\n<p>Niall Murphy of the Green Party on six per cent, Independent Thomas Welby on six per cent and Orla Nugent of Aont\u00fa on four per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The Galway-West by-election will take place on the 22nd of May, alongside one in Dublin-Central.<\/p>\n<p>Niall Murphy of the Green Party on six per cent, Independent Thomas Welby on six per cent and Orla Nugent of Aont\u00fa on four per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fine Gael\u2019s Se\u00e1n Kyne holds the slimmest of leads over Independent Ireland rival Noel Thomas in the Galway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-437739","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\/437739","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=437739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}