Mark Finn
markjfinn.bsky.social
Mark Finn
@markjfinn.bsky.social
PhD Researcher in Public Policy KCL | views my own | he/him 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈
Really interesting discussion earlier today from the IfG
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November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Early tallies, but the Monk outperforming Pascal Donohoe was not something I had on my bingo card #ge24
November 30, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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As predicted above, Simon Harris' personal popularity has absolutely collapsed. Exit poll shows that 27% of people would like to see him as Taoiseach, compared to an approval rating of 55% in September.
November 30, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Worth noting here that respondents who would prefer coalitions of FF / SF (7%), SF w/o FF or FG (22%) and 21% who responded “something else” is *actually* 50%. Obvious caveat that “something else” can mean a lot of things but presumably a fair amount of that share would be some sort of LW gov #ge24
November 30, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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Heavily caveated etc, but the only blockage to the most secure majority is Micheal Martin and yet the party with the most to lose is the Soc Dems, who appear to have had a great election. Politics, bloody hell.
November 30, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Counting the CC as a FF TD (at the very least for talking about parties with the most seats, as happened in 2020) probably should be caveated in analysis, as it’s an independent role and automatically re-elected #ge24
November 30, 2024 at 9:41 AM