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Michelle O'Neill and Mary Lou MacDonald Sam Boal via RollingNews.ie

Sinn Féin support growing at the expense of government parties, poll shows

Sinn Féin support is at 34%, while Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are on 20% and 15% respectively.

SINN FÉIN HAS once again come out on top in the polls, as government parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael continue to slip.

The latest Business Post/Red C Poll reveals that support for Sinn Féin has grown in the last month, rising three points to 34%.

Meanwhile, Fine Gael support drops by two points and Fianna Fáil support drops by one.

They sit at 20% and 15% respectively.

The Sinn Féin surge can also be seen across the border, where last week the party claimed 144 out of 462 council seats, making it the largest party in Northern Irish local government.

The Social Democrats scooped another point and are now on 6%.

The new poll shows that support for the Green Party (4%) and the Labour Party (4%) hasn’t changed in the last month.

Aontú is down one point and Solidarity-People Before Profit is up one, now sitting at 3%.

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    Mute Chris Murphy
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    May 27th 2023, 10:56 AM

    Having worked in an IoT for 14 years I never understood how they were allowed to treat hourly paid staff in such a horrible way. The hard working hourly paid staff are absolutely abused and taken advantage of and the tenured staff and unions do nothing.
    New hires (full-time) are expected to start on ~€38k even if they were earning over double this in the private sector. Attracting talented lecturers is clearly not a goal for management. In the next few years this will come back to bite them, hard!
    Unions should be ashamed of themselves. Hourly paid staff need to strike en masse.
    Management and HR need to be held accountable.

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    May 27th 2023, 11:16 AM

    @Chris Murphy: To quote a teacher union rep in the US “when schoolchidlren start paying uinion dues, i’ll start representing the interests of school children”

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    May 27th 2023, 9:37 AM

    Irish colleges have been slipping down the rankings internationally. You can’t attract or keep top people if you don’t value them.

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    May 27th 2023, 10:11 AM

    ‘The Institution will never love you back’

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    May 27th 2023, 4:52 PM

    Administrators, facilities staff, yes pay them more but lecturers, professors, etc why would they be paid more? They are paid the market rate. It’s a competitive industry.

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    May 28th 2023, 8:29 AM

    @Dan Dare: it takes approximately eight years to get to PhD level with a lot of sacrifice and determination. If we want to retain this talent and not lose them to more attractive offers abroad we need to get real.

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    May 28th 2023, 8:57 AM

    @Dan Dare: It is not about salary per se. It is about discriminatory practices that make obtaining a secure contract and later promotion to a sustainable income unimaginably damaging to someone’s physical and mental health.

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    May 29th 2023, 7:47 PM

    @valerieh: As far as I know pretty much all new staff are taken on as contractors / temp staff in the 3rd level ed sector. This is something the majority asked for to temper the salary boom in the public sector about 15 years ago when the whole place went sideways. To my recall the sector took huge pay cuts that they haven’t pulled back yet. To be honest if lecturers want to be paid more they should deserve it because there are a lot of other people waiting in line for the money they sacrificed.

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    May 29th 2023, 7:50 PM

    @Pat Redmond: Yes PhD has always been the definition of the poor student and we definitely aren’t friendly to this demographic here. I agree their accomodation etc should be paid for and so on so that they can pay it back when they qualify and do all that fancy research that drives the economy, however if they are good they will still be poached, prob for the betterment of humanity admittedly but it is a hard sell to ask stretched people to pay more for this. Hungry mouths to feed and all.

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    May 29th 2023, 10:04 PM

    Sinn Féin used to stand up for tradesmen, labourers, factory workers, small farmers and the all the lower paid working class. Now all they care about is lecturers, solicitors and the like.
    They really have sold out on every single thing.

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    May 27th 2023, 7:48 AM

    *do

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