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A NEW POLL shows that support for Sinn Féin is up, with the party at its highest level of support in over a year.
That’s according to the latest Sunday Business Post/Red poll, which shows that Sinn Féin’s support is up 5 points to 19%. Meanwhile, AAA-PBP’s support is up two points to 6%.
Last week, a poll published in the Sunday Independent showed that Fine Gael’s support had dipped by four points since October.
According to this latest poll, Fianna Fáil is now down one point to 26%, while Fine Gael is still at 24%. Fianna Fáil remains the party with the greatest support in the country.
Labour is down one point, to 4%, the Independent Alliance stays at 3%, the Soc Dems are down one point to 3%, and the Green Party (4%) and Renua (1%) also have seen no change.
Fine Gael has been at the centre of weeks of speculation about the future of its leader and Taoiseach Enda Kenny recently – resulting in a crunch meeting last Wednesday. After facing pressure to go in the wake of his handling of the Garda whistleblower revelations, Kenny told parliamentary party members that he will deal with the issue of his leadership after he returns from his St Patrick’s Day visit to the USA.
The meeting led to a sense of relative calm after weeks of speculation. But that doesn’t mean that everything’s A-OK in Leinster House.
Earlier today, Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy told Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio 1 that “there is a sense of dis-functionality, instability and incoherence at the very heart of government”. Meanwhile, AAA-PBP TD for Dublin South Central, Brid Smith, said on the same show that the leadership contest “has been an absolute distraction from very serious issues”.
The Red C poll of around 1,000 adult took place between Monday and Thursday of last week.
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Correction: Irish taxpayers loose another €2.2 million.
@Michael McCabe: Someone’s “vanity project”.
@Michael McCabe: loose money is easy to lose
@Michael McCabe: Cheek of Forbes to blame the public for RTE financial problems by not paying TV licence.
@Michael McCabe: 2million is a drop in the ocean with the exchequer ..
@Michael McCabe: Correction, Irish taxpayers lose another €2.2 million.
Its kinda mad to think of the lads in RTE sitting up in their studio telling us about the cost of living with a big sad face on them, meanwhile they’re living far better than the vast majority of the country.
@Dylan Bvrn: what about All of those useless so & so’s in the Dáil…??☘️
@Dylan Bvrn: what about All of those so & so’s in the Dáil…??☘️
@James A. O’Donoghue: what about them ?
“spearheaded by RTÉ’s Director of Strategy Rory Coveney”. Wonder if he’s related to Davos boy?
@Tomasso San Roque: Brother
@Tomasso San Roque: Brother
@Tomasso San Roque: his brother
How, under any understanding of the term, could this be described as public service?
@Dermot Lane: toy show is just QVC channel for kids. Presenter wears a jumper and flogs more crap to kids. Hard to make any kind of drama out of that.
what a terrible idea for a show
Somebody made €2.2m ?
@Gavin Gray: It was just an excuse for some at the top to increase their already excessive salaries. It didn’t matter that it was destined to fail – they made a killing out of it anyway. Can’t remember the last time I watched the toy show – the sight of Tubridy awkwardly interacting with children was cringeworthy.
The Government and the national broadcaster give huge amounts of airtime to this Tubridy issue. Does anyone else ever wonder is there something else afoot that some prefer said matter(s) remain quiet? During the marriage referendum. A bill was enacted that will prevent children conceived by gamete donation from coming to know their genetic parents in certain circumstances and nobody said a word.
@Vincent Doyle: no
@Vincent Doyle: Have to agree – the timing of this news story is too convenient for the government.
It’s as bad as bud lite campaign
@john mac: It’s worse we are paying for it all. €515,000 to one executive. And for wat? Running a banana corporation. You couldn’t make it up. Oh yeah you could, maybe a TV drama called “The RTE Shit Show.
@john mac: p155 up in a brewery?
If it wasn’t being broadcast, why was RTE staging a musical?
@Stephen Doyle: it was a stage show to sell tickets
Toy show the money pit musical……
Wonder how much they made each week from the text/phone competition each Friday night
Money is easily spent when it’s not your own.
Disgusting waste of public monies.
All they did was Rob audiences from the all the traditional pantos to massage their egos
@sean matis: they didn’t even manage to do that.
@John Mulligan: im not jokin lads, im honestly desperate to hear Dustin th turkey give his unfiltered take on this. by accounts whoever has their hand up him has a gas sense of humour
Dustin = immeasurably sounder and more decent than that Tubridy lad
I wonder does all the fundraising money on the night goes to the charities..
All RTE do is current affairs and even their flagship programme The Late Late show is current affairs and the odd sad story thrown in.. They never make anything decent that other Channels buy off them.. Their attempt at quiz shows is pathetic and their idea of entertainment is Irish Fittest Family or Operation Transformation.. If you don’t want to stump up the money to watch that garbage they throw in in Jail
And the hits just keep on coming…
Toy Show – the turkey that keeps on giving!
I think RT’s pet project was purely a vanity vehicle. It shows poor judgement of the EB of RTÉ. The LL Toy Show was a nice idea at a time when parents could only dream of what they could give their kids during a prolonged recession. Like TLL, it’s past it’s sell by date.
Get Tubridy to pay for it, he can afford it from his “consultancy fees”.
I wonder how much of that money went to R Tubs in consultancy fees or whatever ?
I feel sure he was getting paid extra money we still haven’t heard about.
The fact that a show was a flop is not that much of a scandal, shows flop all the time. And this shouldn’t stop RTE from creating content.
The real scandal is the outrageous hidden payments to the people at the top while they suffer these kinds of losses. Advertisers must be running for the hills after this.
@David Guiney: Must everything eventually be trotted out again as ‘the musical’?
Ha ha, haha, haha ha, haha haha! ROFLMAO!!!
Ah bend me over so.
I bet Mr Kelly was ok, he didn’t suffer any drop in his income.
Surprise surprise
This is what happens when a state funded broadcaster has created nothing of value in the decades it has existed.
The Cult of the televised Toy Catalogue… I mean Late Late Toy Show only sells so many tickets.
Product placement, the musical.
That’s a hard sell.
Why all the fuss ? €2.2 million lost – that’s only the price of a broom cupboard in our new children’s hospital. No laws were broken…
What’s the next production? Spring Time for Hitler?
@Mick Hanna: Ah! The Producers! An absolute classic!
They really should have gone with “yer man falling on the ice that time on the news it was gas” the musical
What a shat show
Director of Strategy? Couldn’t direct traffic.
The endeavour was bizarre and badly planned from the beginning. Just because children make parents watch a television show does NOT mean that parents will fork out money for a themed musical.
The medical experts on rte? Lol.
M9re tax payers money foolish wasted
What part of “Public Service Broadcasting” does this theatre production fall under?
RTÉ strayed from their remit and this needs to be investigated as to who benefited
Obscene. Just obscene.
Wow, super duper liberal and right wing folks are on the same page! Definitely RTE messed up badly
If they can’t make a profit from their only good show then they are useless. People who work for the state are not know for entertainment
I think they should increase the TV licence fee immediately.
Pay for this loss with one new banter account.
All good?
Without Rte what would we do??
@Andrew Clavin: Speak for yourself. You Pay IF you want. Leave the rest of us alone.
@Andrew Clavin: without rte what would we do. obviously sarcasm, but the anger is hopefully a bit more palpable this time. without rte, we MIGHT have balanced media
They kept playing the ads on RTE radio for it after it was cancelled, surely that airtime could have been put to better use, an ad for mental health or some kind of public sercice awareness
The reason they are laughing at so many of the Irish is because they for good reason believe a quiet, molly coddled majority will stay in line and keep the gravy train going
is that all.
clearly the finest Toy show moment in years was that little girl who either with or without the compliance of her parents was forced into appearing and regurgitating a load of lines about Pfizer vaccines. nothing dark about that whatsoever
I never even heard about this atrocity..what a vanity project that was!
Nevermind… not our money
Let’s focus on BarterGate The musical with Al porter as tubdridy ..
@Andrew Clavin: purely something you could imagine. maybe the O carroll kelly lad he doesnt have high standards as he once cast this utter clown I once had the misfortune of meeting as she grew up locally, just for becoming ‘an Irish model’. Sure Porter is back with a sold out comedy date no?
The greatest flop since “Springtime for Hitler! No wait!
The show was just a flop, it was a flipflop.
They’d make a Musical, from someone taking a dump in a public loo these days and it’d probably sell more tickets?
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