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THE CURRENT FIANNA Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Party coalition is the preferred government option for people in Ireland at present, according to a new opinion poll published today.
An Ireland Thinks poll, published in the Sunday Independent, shows that 38% of people on a forced-choice would pick the current coalition government compared to 34% of people who would pick a left-wing government led by Sinn Féin.
There is just 10% support for a Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil coalition government, while only 3% of those surveyed would want a Sinn Féin – Fine Gael coalition.
The remaining 16% were not sure.
Sinn Féin still remains the most popular party in the state at 33%, up two points on its previous poll. Fine Gael is the second most popular at 23%, but has dropped two points.
Fianna Fáil has regained some ground, with the party now sitting at 19% support, rising by two points.
Smaller parties like the Social Democrats (+1%) and Labour (NC) are on 4% support each, while the Green Party has dropped by one point to 3%. Solidarity People Before Profit is also down one point to 3%, with Aontú dropping by one point to 2%.
Independents remain on 9% support, with no change since the last poll.
Preferred ministers
The poll also asked people who their preferred Ministers would be in several key portfolios, including housing, justice and finance.
In housing, 44% of people would prefer to see Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin as Housing Minister, compared to 33% who want Darragh O’Brien to remain in the role.
In justice, 41% of people want Fine Gael’s Justice Minister Helen McEntee to remain in the position, compared to 21% who want Sinn Féin’s justice spokesperson Martin Kenny in the role. 17% of people want to see Fianna Fáil TD and senior counsel Jim O’Callaghan in the position.
In finance, 40% of people want Fine Gael’s Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe to remain in the role, compared to 36% of people who want to see Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty in the job. 15% of people want to see Public Expenditure Minister, Michael McGrath take on the job.
The most important issues for people are currently housing (44%), healthcare (33%), cost of living (28%), Covid-19 (27%) and climate change (15%).
The poll itself was conducted on Friday, with 1,369 people being asked for their views. The margin of error is 2.7%.
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Why, oh why, must we be plagued by these people?
At least she didn’t say it was a series of tubes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
Just another Journal hack piece on the pro-life people or anyone they deem against their open borders, same-sex marriage or abortion agendas. Journal, change the name to HAX.ie
Well Invasion News you just proved a pint I made a couple of days ago on an article about HIV/AIDS. The homophobs will jump on any article to have a go at gay people.
Invasion I think you can see you’re point is not valid.
Was the “pint” Superior Powers Label!!!
checking her face tube account?
Thank you Micheal. Yes the correct spelling is Point and not pint. Two different words i know. Where would us dyslexic people without you to point out our mistakes.
Why, Fi? Why do you pronounce WiFi “Whiffy”? Why, Fi? Why?
It’s pronounced “wiffy” in Spain to my certain knowledge and probably in most of Europe as well. Which doesn’t excuse Fidelma Eames doing so as she should be using the pronunciation as spoken in English speaking countries.
I think Y-Figh is the Irish pronounciation. Like we say fillit stake.
The proper pronounciation is wee-fee
However most Irish people still mispronouce many things like Chile the country as Chilly.
It is amusing to foreigners to hear our funny ways. Even funnier is when the begrudger Irish dislike a local trying to pronounce something properly.
Good god, imagine saying ‘Him-awe-lee-awe’ instead of our incorrect ‘Him-A-Lay-Ah’ or Ha-Waugh-Eee’ instead of our made-up ‘Ha-why-ee’. You just sound like a pompous clever git and we hate that sort of thing.
“Y Figh” is not just the Irish pronounciation – it is the pronounciation in all English speaking countries.
so are you suggesting she is a foreigner listening to our Irish accents?
one truevoice, can I clarify, your prenounciation of wifi is wee fee? wee fee.
@OneTrueVoice Out of curiosity how do you pronounce the word scone?
I say scon. Ireland being the birthplace of the scon.
The yanks say scone. like Ice cream cone. Many Irish resort to scone having grown up idolising Friends and MTV. etc. like. om. yah.
Do stone next!
Wireless Fidelity so not wee fee
Wireless Fidelma more like…
Little Jim! Hilarious post! This intellectual powerhouse with 2 surnames is truly our superior….
Oddly enough, I work in an international business alongside people for across Europe every day, including Spanish people. I’ve never heard a single one of then pronounce it anything other than “WiFi”
yes here in Spain she would be correct the difference between “I”,”y” and “e” are clearly defined unlike the English language
Personally Whiffy is not nearly as annoying as the way Clare Byrne pronounces the word issue…..
Well she might be from Clare: tin min wint t’innis t’mind a tint!!! (Ten men went to Ennis to mend a tent!!)
Considering this oxygen thief is paid by the good tax payers of Ireland, surely she should be instantly fired and muted for good?! Sums up why we are in big trouble really
Actually, pronunciation aside, she seriously asked for the Oireachtas internet password to be broadcast on television. Let’s keep her away from state secrets, maybe?
Imagine if the whole world knew the Oireachtas internet password? Imagine that? Perish such an awful thought, perish it now.
It’s be no harm if she did know the state secrets though. She wouldnt be able to tell them to anyone, she mispronounce all the words
I heard Peter Kay saying how his granny asked for wiffy when he brought her out for lunch as it was free.
To be fair to Ms Eames, she’s only just emerged from a 200 year cryo-sleep and is desperately trying to get up to date with modern technology. It’s not her fault she’s making a complete bags of it.
or make a eames of it..
This is an outrage, no doubt the fella who runs the Internet will be summoned to explain himself before a committee. There goes our tax hard at work…
This, Senator Healy Eames, is the Internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
Makes sense to keep it on top of Big Ben.
I hope that her fellow Galway unelectable senator Lorraine Higgins will come out and condemn this pathetic story as a form of bullying .
Luckily we’ll be rid of her after the next election
She’s not a T.D -bless her .
She was nominated as a senator for FG so that’s not going to happen again. Can’t see anyone electing her to anything for the next election.
I don’t think she would the capacity to vote for herself.
What a clown so so so so so removed from reality , SHAME , creature from the dark ages
Bwahahahahah. FHE is the gift that keeps on giving. I’d swear they keep her around for comic relief.
You are better off without the wiffy code because then you will be safe from being raped on Facebook.
Fidelma is so hip with the younger generation and their tech lingo.. Whats next on her agenda? Opening an election account on ‘The Facebook’ ??
She got fraped in her wiffy.
Imagine going into politics just to be a troll!
I get a fierce whiffy of pooh off her gob.
I’m starting to think she some kind of post-modern art project that has gone rogue!
She is just a gift that keeps on giving isn’t she? Just when I thought she has said the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard and could not have believed that one person could actually be that thick, she manages to exceed my expectations and say something even more amazingly idiotic… she is pure comedy gold… or else she would be if she wasn’t really a Senator. that is when the terror sets in that most of the people in politics are her equal.
I cant believe nobody remembers her from this. “fraping on facebook “”this type of thing has to stop” :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypBGI2_YXeo
Where did we get this creature from?
I think a couple of priests found her in the lingerie section of a department store.
Water doesn’t just fall from the sky you know #FailGealNumbnuts
She one of the ones I get a kick out of, oh whatever next senetor!
Paid?? No one told me anything about being paid !!! When does it happen ? Eh ?
Did you not get paid? We all did.
even the dwarf from at home alone got paid..
What have we collectively done to Galway to explain them foisting this woman,Lorraine Higgins and Rónán Mullen on us? I suppose they want them far away and someplace they can’t do anything (except hurt themselves) so the Senate suffices.
“Fraping” and now “Wiffy” code?
Yeah, right – I’m not falling for it.
This lady likes to have her name in the headlines because she clearly has nothing better to do with her “free time” in the Seanad at the taxpayer’s expense.
This pattern behaviour of serving up this type of low-grade standup routine every time she gets bored in her “job” could be indicative of other underlying issues.
It’ll be a cold day in he’ll before this eejit gets my vote in Galway !
The 89 gobdaws who voted for her deserve to be stuck in a room with Fidelma and no wiffy code for all bloody eternity. A pox on each and every one of them!
Oh for crying out loud! Ye’re just smug and pretentious bullies, just picking and badgering and just being plain rude and nasty. What’s worse is that you’re being paid for it.
It’s just sad.
I thought you were dead? – That`s some Whiffy code you have going Brian, what`s the code? 666?
This catastraf**k is a public representative. One who is absolutely clueless about the facts of whatever misguided moral crusade she embarks on in any given week. Stop white-knighting and defending her. It makes you seems just as idiotic as her.
If I got a penny, every time I was smug and pretentious I’d have about €3 euro.
Fidelma Healy Eames; The Gift That Keeps On Giving.
This is how my French friends pronounce it! Whiffy! Maybe she’s trying to get on board with a French thing?
Ahh God bless her cotton socks.
It is pronounced wiffy. … but only on trains without paying for the ticket.
and these are our decision makers, Christ on a bike!
When I’m feeling squiffy, I always forget my wiffy code!
Ah well at least you has something in common with Enda whiffy we might get to see those 2 idiots together…..
2 smellies 1 silent followed by a deadly one #wiffycode
Between Ms Healy Emes with her “wiffy” and Mr Noonan determined to travel back in time to “two fifteen” you’d have to wonder what class of politician we’re blessed with in this country.
I have a neighbour that has named his network ” Wi believe I can fi”.
Wiffie Code rhymes with Waffle Code.
.(Waffle is the code that all senators speak.)
When I moved to France a few years ago, our neighbours had cats called Wee-fee and Arubase. Asked my french boyfriend where they got the names from and he said “Wee-fee, as in what you call Wifi in Ireland, and Arubase is ‘@’ in French”. Mind you Fidelma doesn’t have that sort of cultural gap to excuse her pronunciation…
Wait, wait! They have banned Mother’s and Father’s Day in some states in the U.S.? When did this happen?
What about a mention of showbiz legend Val Doonican instead of this shite?
It’s called ‘wiffy’ due to the accent in almost every other country in the world – anyone who has an issue with this needs to go have a Calippo in the sun and calm the f*** down….the Daily Mail wouldn’t call this news.
P*** off, Gerry. Not everything has to be ISIS and water protests to be a story. And try going in to ANYWHERE in Ireland and ask for whiffy. Not a single person will have a clue what you’re on about.
She can also use ‘skippy’ in the Dáil
We fi fo fum I smell the blood of an internet troll lmao
Her continuing antics in office would be hilarious if she was not supposed to be there to do a job. She is a disgrace. We need less clowns in office.
Who voted this muppets in?
Conservative uninformed naive
Ah now, in fairness, it’s pronounced wiffy in France.
Do you know what they call the free wiffy code in Burger King in France?
LE wiffy code.
Good name for the new navy ship. The LE Wiffy
Unedited version of the speech is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7fzcpS-BU
Don’t some people say ‘wiffy’ jokingly? I have and I’m an English professor with a major in information systems. Not defending her, just saying maybe she did actually know better.
I’m surprised she understands what a Restaurant is never mind the #WiffyCode – #GalwayGold
In Germany they pronounce it as Viffy so it won’t be long before we start pronouncing it that way too. All hail our overlords and I for one welcome them with open arms……
She’s obviously a bit out of touch but it’s a harmless error.
Is there any point to this article other than to gather around and laugh at someone’s trivial mispronunciation? Seems a bit nasty.
Fidelma, is not shy when it comes to nastiness.
Wiffy code for the skype facility lol
Don’t be too hard on her! Try pronouncing these two County Wexford villages correctly: Camolin and Monamolin!!
I thonk ets da posh waa ov sain et.
Give the woman a break people. Turns out there is no European consensus on how to pronounce Wi-Fi. http://bit.ly/1erfCrF She did use both pronunciations in her Dail Speech and maybe she pronounced it the French way because she is fluent in French.
“Whiffy”? I distinctly heard ‘wiffy’.
Ha ha ha. The Journal journalists think wiffy is spelled whiffy.
The wifi is down, not working and needs a better signal?
Or is that WI-FE or wife is down, not working and needs a better signal?
Dope…
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