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Leah Farrell via RollingNews.ie

New poll shows more than twice as many people want Martin as Taoiseach over Kenny

The poll also found that only 54% of Fine Gael voters want Kenny elected Taoiseach.

A NEW POLL has shown that voters would prefer to have Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin as Taoiseach.

The Millward Brown survey for the Sunday Independent found that more than twice as many people would rather see Martin (39%) in charge over Enda Kenny (17%).

It also found that only 54% of Fine Gael voters want Kenny elected Taoiseach, with many wanting to see Leo Varadkar in the top position.

However, the poll also found that 70% of those questioned wouldn’t change how they voted if a second general election was called.

The poll was taken among a sample of 865 voters between 21 March and 1 April.

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    Mute Al Fresco
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    Jun 11th 2022, 7:49 PM

    Why did it take so long for people to start demanding action to be taken ?

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    Jun 11th 2022, 7:54 PM

    @Al Fresco: because it’s so normalised. They’re desensitised to it all and it takes children being murdered again and again for them to care.

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    Mute David A. Murray
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    Jun 11th 2022, 9:43 PM

    @Al Fresco: This isn’t the first time marches and nation-wide protests have occurred. But what do you expect ordinary people to do when there is political obstruction at every turn. Obama tried to introduce gun control legislation and he was shut down by the elements of the GOP in Congress. The Northern Ireland ‘troubles’ weren’t solved by the ordinary citizen. It was a series of circumstances that came together and which allowed the peaceful center politics to carry the extremists in its wake.

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    Mute Jim Buckley Barrett
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    Jun 11th 2022, 9:50 PM

    @Al Fresco: it’s been demanded before, nothing will happen

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    Mute David F. Dwyer
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    Jun 11th 2022, 10:01 PM

    @Al Fresco: They get vociferous after it happens in a red state. Won’t make a difference to the guns, god and glory though.

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    Mute Al Fresco
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    Jun 12th 2022, 12:56 AM

    @: yes, I hear what you are saying,
    It still baffles me how that it could take so long for a movement to rise up of people demanding “ this must stop, NOW”
    Innocent little children are being casually murdered on an almost daily basis,
    Make it stop,
    NOW!

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    Mute Damien Leen
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    Jun 12th 2022, 2:29 AM

    @Al Fresco: wha…seriously…people have been demanding action to be taken for years…BUT good luck with that when their duly elected officials have been put there by party contributions by the NRA!

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    Mute Sean Murnin
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    Jun 11th 2022, 8:30 PM

    If the slaughtering of innocent children doesn’t make them change the laws, I really don’t see how a few thousand people marching in the capital will.

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    Mute Jim Buckley Barrett
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    Jun 11th 2022, 9:51 PM

    @Sean Murnin: this isn’t the first school shooting and nothing changed in the past

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    Jun 12th 2022, 12:22 AM

    @Jim Buckley Barrett: I am well aware of the history of school shootings in America Jim. That was the point I was making.

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    Mute Pat Duggan
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    Jun 11th 2022, 8:21 PM

    Ref the last paragraph, you can’t vote them out unless you have an alternative to vote in. That alternative doesn’t exist. The gun lobby have control of the candidates. When the Democrats had control of the Congress they didn’t change the gun laws either.

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    Jun 11th 2022, 8:43 PM

    @Pat Duggan: they attempted to in 2013 but it was voted down in the senate by a combination of republicans and swing state/obstructionist democrats.

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    Mute Rob Gale
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    Jun 11th 2022, 8:50 PM

    Won’t make a difference to Lynsey Graham, Mitch McConnel etc. and theyre still the ones wholl decide. Awful set-up.

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    Jun 11th 2022, 9:35 PM

    @Rob Gale: what’s awful? The people elected them.

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    Mute Rory Jennequin
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    Jun 11th 2022, 10:07 PM

    @v39e84kK: I think you meant “That’s awful! The people elected them?”

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    Mute Damien Leen
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    Jun 12th 2022, 2:34 AM

    @v39e84kK: so what…you Reep what u sow?

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    Jun 11th 2022, 8:56 PM

    Nothing will change.

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    Mute David cotter
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    Jun 11th 2022, 8:55 PM

    Forget the marches it’s in effective…….starve the NRA. of cash and financial support in America all they care about is money

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    Jun 11th 2022, 9:34 PM

    @David cotter: NRA are bankrupt. How can they be the main obstacle without money?

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    Jun 11th 2022, 9:37 PM

    @v39e84kK: there not bankrupt….gun manufacturers gave them a cash injection to stay afloat

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    Jun 11th 2022, 10:11 PM

    @David cotter: I don’t get it you are saying they are barely afloat how are they influencing all the politicians then? Genuinely I don’t get it, don’t they need a lot of money to buy off the senators etc.

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    Jun 12th 2022, 11:55 AM

    @v39e84kK: NRA is a waning power but the Republicans have moved far more to the right which means that their position is not been dictated by the NRA but by the prevalent Republican POV, which in the end is the same place. No restrictions on guns.
    The only way things will change is if enough Dems are elected in the mid terms to have control of both house and Senate (not including Manchin or Sinema)
    While the vast majority of people believe in “sensible” gun control, the majority of the money isn’t.

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    Mute Paul Furey
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    Jun 11th 2022, 10:38 PM

    The Republicans will ignore the protests. They are working on banning doors.

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    Jun 12th 2022, 2:31 AM

    American politicians and the NRA don’t have much say in this issue. The US Constitution protects gun ownership and it is not going to change. After the riots millions of Liberals bought guns : it was Blue Cities that burned. Anyway America doesn’t have a gun problem. It has a mental health and culture of violence problem.

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    Jun 12th 2022, 9:18 AM

    @Des Hanrahan: America doesn’t have a gun problem? Are you serious? I would also suggest that Ireland has a mental health problem but we don’t have people walking into schools and shooting children. Wanna know why? Because we don’t have a gun problem!

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    Jun 12th 2022, 12:01 PM

    @Des Hanrahan: evidence on the millions of Liberals claim? The 2nd amendment states “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, what is not specified is what counts as arms. why is an ak15 allowed but not a rocket launcher? A lot of people would see no difference, the rocket launcher and ak15 are both weapons of war that hold no use for hunting or protecting one’s home but to inflict as much damage as quickly as possible

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    Jun 12th 2022, 1:24 PM

    @Colm O’ Shea: During the riots vast numbers of people who had previously supported gun ownership controls bought guns and found themselves on the other side of the argument. There were so many that they even caused supply problems. The phenomenon was widely covered in American media at the time. So if you want to check it out it shouldn’t be too difficult.

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    Jun 12th 2022, 5:05 AM

    I’m actually surprised the the Irish aren’t out marching/protesting gun control too. We are great at virtual signalling. I do think we should protest and March on the journal, for emojis and a edited button. (Smiley face)

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    Mute David Saunders
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    Jun 11th 2022, 10:16 PM

    They need millions of people for it to make a difference

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    Mute Michael Flanagan
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    Jun 11th 2022, 11:27 PM

    Until your 14 year old heart is stopped by a bullet from an AR15 – you will never realise how much you miss your Mom and Dad and Brothers and Sisters and friends. – why are the gun laws so Liberal????????

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    Jun 12th 2022, 2:37 AM

    @Michael Flanagan: isn’t the ar15 banned..wasn’t that the pathetic token jesture they came out with under the Obama administration

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    Jun 12th 2022, 12:16 PM

    @Damien Leen: there was a law which banned them but it expired after 10 years without renewal. Enacted by Clinton and let sunset by W Bush.
    Obama tried and failed in 2009

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    Jun 12th 2022, 8:18 AM

    Obviously Americans value their access to guns more important than the lives of their children or they wouldn’t keep voting for these gun nuts who prevent any reform

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    Mute Claudia Varell
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    Jun 12th 2022, 5:17 PM

    The last NRA convention attracted more visitors. Personally I would keep up with the free sale of weapons. But I’d make the sale, purchase and possession of ammunition a criminal offence, with 1 month of prison per bullet. Checking the constitution, it only guarantees the right to wear a weapon, but not the right to own ammunition ;)

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