{"id":533424,"date":"2026-07-04T23:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533424\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:51:12","slug":"fine-gael-most-popular-party-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533424\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Gael most popular party in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new opinion poll suggests Fine Gael is the most popular party in the country – but underlines the tightness of the current political race by placing it just one point above Sinn F\u00e9in and three points above Fianna F\u00e1il.<\/p>\n

The situation is outlined in the latest Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks poll, which was published this evening.<\/p>\n

According to the poll, Fine Gael has increased one point compared to the group’s previous poll, and is now on 20%.<\/p>\n

It suggests Sinn F\u00e9in has fallen one point to 19%, and that Fianna F\u00e1il has increased one point to 17%.<\/p>\n

Among other parties, the poll suggests the Social Democrats are unchanged on 12%, Independent Ireland has fallen two points to 7%, while Aont\u00fa remains unchanged on 6%.<\/p>\n

Labour is unchanged on 3%, the Green Party is unchanged on 3%, and People Before Profit-Solidarity is unchanged on 2%, while the poll suggests support for Independents has risen one point to 11%.<\/p>\n

The poll was conducted on 3 July, and has a sample size of 1,279 people with a margin of error of +\/-2.8%.<\/p>\n

\"Social
\nSocial Democrats leader Holly Cairns remains the most popular leader in the country<\/p>\n

The poll also suggests that the popularity of individual leaders has remained relatively static.<\/p>\n

According to the poll, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns remains the most popular leader in the country, but has seen her personal support fall one point to 40% compared to last month.<\/p>\n

Fianna F\u00e1il leader Miche\u00e1l Martin and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris’s personal support both remain unchanged on 35% and 33% respectively, while Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald’s approval rating has fallen one point to 30%, and Labour leader Ivana Bacik’s personal support has fallen two points to 28%.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks poll separately suggests that Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan is currently those who took part in the survey’s favoured next leader of Fianna F\u00e1il.<\/p>\n

The poll places Mr O\u2019Callaghan on 52%, ahead of the poll’s second favourite Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary, who is on 17% and Fianna F\u00e1il’s current deputy leader and Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers, on 16%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new opinion poll suggests Fine Gael is the most popular party in the country – but underlines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-533424","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\/533424","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=533424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}