Fianna Fáil has taken an 11-point lead over Fine Gael in a new opinion poll published on Sunday.
The poll puts Fianna Fáil support at 32 per cent, a rise of three percentage points, ahead of Fine Gael support of 21 per cent, a fall of two points for the main Government party.
The Behaviour & Attitudes poll in the Ireland edition of the Sunday Times puts Sinn Féin on 19 per cent (+2), Labour on 6 per cent (+1) and the Independent Alliance on 5 per cent (+2).
The poll reports that support for the AAA/PBP grouping is 3 per cent (-2), the Social Democrats are on 2 per cent (+1), the Green Party is also on 2 per cent (-1), the Workers Party on 1 per cent (+1) and Others are on 8 per cent (-7).
Fianna Fáil’s 32 per cent rating is a new high in the poll’s series which started six years ago, while Fine Gael’s 21 per cent is the lowest in the poll’s series.
The poll was carried out over nine days up to last Wednesday, prior to the current controversy over Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe and the Government’s handling of that.
The margin of error in the poll is 3.2 per cent.
