prepare to hold their annual think-ins<\/a> this week, with Budget 2027 exactly a month away.\u00a0<\/p>\nElsewhere, the poll puts support for Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn\u2019s Aont\u00fa at 8%, up by one point to a record high.<\/p>\n
The Social Democrats remain unchanged on 10%, while Independent Ireland also saw no change at 7%.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Labour and the Green Party are also unchanged on 3% with People Before Profit-Solidarity still on 2%.<\/p>\n
Support for independents and others dropped two points to 10%.<\/p>\n
A month out from the budget, the poll asked which issues should be the two most important priorities to deal with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of those surveyed, 47% said the cost of living was their main concern, with housing coming in at 42%.<\/p>\n
Immigration was cited by 25%, followed by healthcare at 13% and climate change at 12%.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some 63% said they disapprove of how the government is handling its job, with 29% saying they approve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The poll was conducted on 4 September. The sample size was 1,044 and the margin of error is 3.1%.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW POLLING PUTS Sinn F\u00e9in as the most popular party in the country. According to the latest Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16253,895,3775,8934,61,60,43451,14235,43,97624,43624,3415,1419,97625,261511],"class_list":["post-616257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aontu","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-green-party","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-thinks","tag-labour","tag-news","tag-opinion-poll","tag-polling","tag-sinn-fein","tag-social-democrats","tag-sunday-independent-ireland-thinks","tag-sunday-independent-ireland-thinks-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616257","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=616257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}