Support for FG dips as SF rises, opinion poll suggests

Support for Fine Gael has fallen in the last three weeks, the latest Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks opinion poll suggests.

The poll indicates that the three larger parties are all broadly on the same level of support heading into the final days of the election campaign.

The survey of voters taken online last Thursday and Friday suggests a rise in support for Sinn Féin, Independents and Aontú.

The poll gauges Fine Gael support at 22%, which is down four percentage points on the last comparable poll at the beginning of the month.

Sinn Féin is up two points to 20% while Fianna Fáil is unchanged on 20%.

Independents, which includes Independent Ireland, are up three points to 19%.

There is a rise of two points in support for Aontú bringing the party to 5%.

The Social Democrats on 5% drop one point with Labour unchanged on 4%.

The Greens are down one point on 3%.

People Before Profit-Solidarity are unchanged on 2%.

The margin of error in this poll, which surveyed 1,420 voters, is plus or minus 2.3%.

The poll was conducted online, delivered via SMS. Respondents were recruited principally via random probability sampling. Then, from approximately 5,000 responses 1,420 are selected and weighted to ensure representativeness.