Ireland opinion polls
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Sinn Féin leads the polling average with 21.0%, 3.5 points ahead of Fine Gael.
Average
Updated 34 minutes ago
SDSocial Democrats
10.2
+0.2
IIIndependent Ireland
6.3
+0.4
PBP–SPeople Before Profit–Solidarity
3.1
+0.4
Trend
SFFGFFSDAonII
Stances
SFFGFFSDAonII
Immigration
ExpandRestrictRemigration
Economy
Free marketState-directed
Christian identity1 unplaced
Abortion
Broad accessProtect unborn life
Marriage & family
Individual choiceTraditional
National culture
CosmopolitanPreserve heritage
Technology
Light-touchRein in Big Tech
Scores and reasons written by AI. Methodology
Why these scores
Immigration
- Sinn Féin: 4.5 of 10 Backs eight-year citizenship residency with civics tests; opposed EU Migration Pact; says failed applicants must leave
- Fine Gael: 5 of 10 Coalition partner for 2026 asylum law with detention powers, deportation flights and eight-year citizenship residency
- Fianna Fáil: 5 of 10 Justice Minister O'Callaghan's 2026 asylum bill adds detention; citizenship residency raised to eight years with tests
- Social Democrats: 2.5 of 10 Voted against 2026 asylum law; Gannon sought family reunification after one year, not two
- Aontú: 6.5 of 10 Would withdraw from EU asylum rules, enforce deportations, bar anyone with criminal record, end migrant service priority
- Independent Ireland: 6 of 10 Airport detention, deporting convicted foreigners, citizenship revocation; but wants faster work visas for legal migrants
Economy
- Sinn Féin: 6.5 of 10 2027 alternative budget: abolish USC on first €40,000, rent freeze, vulture-fund tax, €10-a-day childcare
- Fine Gael: 3.5 of 10 Pro-enterprise low-tax line; Harris pledged raising inheritance tax threshold for children to €500,000
- Fianna Fáil: 4 of 10 Leads government of large spending budgets and energy credits; pledged raising inheritance tax thresholds
- Social Democrats: 7 of 10 2027 alternative budget: 2% annual tax on net assets over €5 million and tripled bank levy
- Aontú: 5 of 10 Mixes worker protections and rent pressure zones with abolishing inheritance tax and M50 tolls
- Independent Ireland: 3.5 of 10 Would abolish property tax, scrap USC for over-65s, freeze carbon tax, review NGO funding
Christian identity
- Sinn Féin: 2 of 10 Opposed government amendment to 2025 motion for non-religious patronage of new schools; wanted maternity hospital fully public
- Fine Gael: 3 of 10 Led 2018 blasphemy repeal; its government dropped target of 400 multi-denominational schools, mostly Catholic-run
- Fianna Fáil: 3.5 of 10 Government amended 2025 motion: patronage divestment only where parents ask; over 90% of primary schools religious
- Social Democrats: 1.5 of 10 May 2025 motion: all new schools under non-religious patronage, faith formation moved outside school hours
- Aontú: 4.5 of 10 No formal church-state platform; 2025 Ard Fheis voted to ban Sharia law and religious community courts
Abortion
- Sinn Féin: 2 of 10 Campaigned for repeal; its 2026 bill to scrap the three-day abortion wait passed second stage 86–70
- Fine Gael: 3 of 10 Accepts 2018 law; 23 of 34 voting TDs opposed scrapping three-day wait, though Harris backed it
- Fianna Fáil: 3.5 of 10 Accepts 2018 law; 30 of 42 voting TDs opposed scrapping three-day wait, though Martin backed it
- Social Democrats: 1.5 of 10 May 2026 bill to enact O'Shea review: end three-day wait, ease anomaly rules, decriminalise doctors
- Aontú: 7 of 10 Calls life a 'core value'; would ban terminations for foetal disability; TDs opposed scrapping three-day wait
- Independent Ireland: 6 of 10 Collins: 'against abortion. Full stop'; all its voting TDs opposed every 2025–26 liberalisation bill
Marriage & family
- Sinn Féin: 2 of 10 Backed Yes–Yes in 2024 family and care referendums; supported 2026 non-binary recognition bill
- Fine Gael: 3 of 10 Led 2015 marriage referendum and Yes–Yes in 2024; 31 TDs voted down 2026 non-binary recognition bill
- Fianna Fáil: 3.5 of 10 Campaigned Yes–Yes in 2024 family referendums; 42 TDs voted against 2026 non-binary recognition bill
- Social Democrats: 1.5 of 10 Backs ban on conversion therapy; campaigned Yes–Yes in the 2024 family and care referendums
- Aontú: 6.5 of 10 Campaigned No–No in 2024 referendums; Tóibín called 2026 non-binary recognition bill 'anti-science'
- Independent Ireland: 6 of 10 Founders co-sponsored single-sex prisons gender recognition bill; TDs voted against 2026 non-binary recognition bill
National culture
- Sinn Féin: 5 of 10 March 2025 motion sought national plans for Irish in childcare and schools; pursues Irish unity, civic framing
- Fine Gael: 4.5 of 10 Its government added language and civics tests for citizenship; frames Irish identity as civic and diverse
- Fianna Fáil: 5 of 10 Long-standing Irish-language commitment; its government added language and civics tests for citizenship
- Social Democrats: 2.5 of 10 Rejects blaming migrants for homelessness; a candidate called Bertie Ahern's migration remarks 'vile'
- Aontú: 6.5 of 10 Centres Irish unity; 2025 Ard Fheis backed audit of all DEI policies in the state
- Independent Ireland: 6.5 of 10 Would require permanent residents to take Irish history course and pass English and Irish exams
Subsidiarity
- Sinn Féin: 5.5 of 10 Voted against opting into EU Migration Pact and the EU's enhanced-cooperation Ukraine loan; defends triple lock
- Fine Gael: 3 of 10 EPP member; backed opting into EU Migration Pact, joining EU Ukraine loan and ending the triple lock
- Fianna Fáil: 3 of 10 Pro-EU Renew member; Martin presses for EU-level child social media ban and implements Migration Pact
- Social Democrats: 3.5 of 10 Pro-EU membership but calls removal of the triple lock 'an existential threat to Irish neutrality'
- Aontú: 7 of 10 Opposes European federalism, an EU army, enlargement and the EU Migration Pact
- Independent Ireland: 6 of 10 Opposes Mercosur and EU farm targets; voted against EU Migration Pact opt-in and EU Ukraine loan
Technology
- Sinn Féin: 5.5 of 10 Opposes under-16 ban as unenforceable; voted against shelving PBP bill curbing recommender algorithms for children
- Fine Gael: 7 of 10 Harris pushes under-16 social media restriction; minister O'Donovan piloting digital-wallet age verification
- Fianna Fáil: 7 of 10 Martin backed UK's under-16 ban, calling social media 'the public health issue of our time'
- Social Democrats: 6.5 of 10 Calls under-16 ban unworkable; sought independent AI regulator; presses Data Protection Commission to enforce against Meta
- Aontú: 5.5 of 10 Says under-16s should not be on social media but called ban poorly thought out; opposed shelving algorithm bill
- Independent Ireland: 5.5 of 10 No platform policy; two of three TDs opposed shelving PBP bill curbing recommender algorithms for children