Fianna Fáil has been backed from 8/1 into 5/1 to win the most seats, while Enda Kenny’s reinstatement has drifted from 1/33 to 1/10.
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Fianna Fail’s leader Micheal Martin was ranked as the best-performing leader, rated positively by 54 percent compared to 47 percent for Kenny.
Opponents seized on the Taoiseach’s apparent admission in a live television debate that he personally appointed a Fine Gael supporter to a State board a year and a half ago.
Unemployment in Ireland has fallen to a seven-year low of 8.9 percent amid the country’s return to Europe-leading growth.
The Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on mental health, disability and special needs and General Election candidate for Galway East Colm Keaveney has said that disability inclusion will be a priority for Fianna Fáil if elected to run the country.
“The recovery is very fragile and can not and should not be taken for granted…”
“I am asking people to think twice before they cast their ballot”, she said. “That’s why we need a second term to complete the job that people gave us, to fix our public finances and get people back to work”.
He stated that Fine Gael and Labour said the area of disability was going to be a social justice priority issue.
Labour leader Joan Burton’s seat is among those at risk as the party is deserted by voters angry at the coalition’s tough austerity measures, which were imposed by global creditors to rescue Ireland’s collapsing economy in 2011. “It was a tax too far”, said Richard Colwell, head of Red C polling.
“For both parties, such an arrangement would represent a poisoned chalice, particularly because of the opportunity Sinn Fein would gain in becoming the main opposition voice”. A governing majority would require the support of at least 79 lawmakers.
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The most commonly predicted outcome would require Fine Gael to form an unprecedented coalition with its political nemesis, Fianna Fail.
