Kevin Cunningham

Something is happening in politics that feels quite important. The latest example of this feature was last month when the Social Democratic Party surged at the very end of a four-year cycle to win the German general election. For decades, political science viewed campaigns as 'full of sound and fury,

On Friday the government announced a series of restrictions aimed once again to curb the rise in the number of cases of Covid-19 in Ireland. In response to this announcement Ireland Thinks conducted an opinion poll that evening to test whether the public agreed with these new measures or otherwise.

A number of points are worth making about the latest results in respect of the pandemic. The electorate is significantly more confident in the government’s handling of the pandemic than it has been previously. Confidence in the government's ability to tackle the pandemic has increased to 44% of the

The latest poll by Ireland Thinks for the Irish Daily Mail indicates that there is a majority in favour of a change to the constitution on abortion. Respondents were asked "If a referendum were held to repeal the 8th amendment that is to make abortion unrestricted during the first 12