Snapshot

Participants in snapshot poll unimpressed by how Coalition handled campaign on Family and Care referendums

Recent referendums have been the main focus of the public’s attention this last month as housing and immigration slip into second and third place

Latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A Snapshot poll asked respondents to comment on what in Ireland was going in the right direction or the wrong direction. Here are a selection of answers

Issues such as healthcare, climate change and the war in Gaza draw little interest despite extensive media coverage

Continuing prominence of immigration in Snapshot survey comes after moves to discourage both Ukrainian refugees and people seeking asylum from coming to Ireland

A new sentiment tracker seeks to find out which issues are breaking through with voters and who might benefit.

Comments on immigration were overwhelmingly negative, with sentiment focused on our general inability to cope with the numbers arriving and on the Government’s policy responses

Since data collection for Snapshot began in July last year we have seen stories come and go, concerns rise and fall. With Snapshot the only constant will be change

Housing ranks next as a concerning problem, at 19%, with taxes and social policies each at 4%