New poll findings suggest Dublin Bay South will be tight call
A new poll suggests the Dublin Bay South constituency could be one of the tightest to call in the General Election.
The poll of the four seat constituency shows Fine Gael's Eoghan Murphy on 20 per-cent, followed by Sinn Fein's Chris Andrews on 17% with Renua leader Lucinda Creighton and Labour's Kevin Humphreys both on 13%.
Fianna Fail's Jim O'Callaghan is on 11%, with Kate O'Connell of Fine Gael on 10% followed by Eamon Ryan of the Greens on 7%.
The Millward Brown poll - carried for the Irish Independent - involved face-to-face interviews with 498 voters at 46 sampling points between the 12th and the 16th of February.
The poll indicates Fine Gael and Sinn Fein will take two-of the four seats.
But Group political editor of Independent News and Media Kevin Doyle says it's all to play for to fill the remaining two seats: “When you look at it you would suggest that Eoin Murphy is pretty much there and Chris Andrews is pretty much on the line for getting a seat aswell.
“That’s where it gets intriguing Lucinda Creighton, Kevin Humphreys, Jim O’Callaghan and Kate O’Connell all would claim to be in the mix at this stage.
“Lucinda, she is on 13% but her problem perhaps could be that she is a bit transfer toxic she is equal to Sinn Féin when it comes to transfers, Kate O’Connell, Kevin Humphreys, very transfer friendly, Jim O’Callaghan, somewhere in the middle.”
