More likely than not this poll is bull

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

A new groundbreaking survey has discovered that 99% of people* have never met someone who has taken part in a political opinion poll.

The other 1% of people surveyed are lying.

*This percentage excludes the 46% of ‘Don’t knows’.

The survey has a margin of error of 6.3%; or was that an error and the real margin of error is actually 63%. They ‘don’t know’ apparently.

Warning: Despite the complete unreliability of this survey, it’ll generate acres of newsprint filling lots of white space with politicians yawning about “a snapshot in time” and political correspondents doing what they do worst – Madame Bridget impressions of predicting the future.

Well, have you ever taken part in a political opinion poll? Let us know here

Revealed: The new sharing is caring side to former PDs!

It’s fair to say that the Progressive Democrats weren’t known for their caring side. For all the good they did – and they certainly did some good for the country before becoming extinct – the PDs were known more for their philosophy of economic individualism.

They were the Tories of Irish politics; the Gaelic cheerleaders for Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Regan’s right wing philosophies.

But former PD, now Independent, Galway West Deputy Noel Grealish has a caring side, it seems.

And as we all know sharing is caring.

City Councillor Declan McDonnell, a former PD party colleague of his, is one of the beneficiaries of his generosity.

On an ad-hoc basis the Independent councillor has been using an Oireachtas email address, which is connected to the Dáil deputy, to email press releases to local media.

The most recent one was in June, when Cllr McDonnell was ‘having a go’ at junior minister Jan O’Sullivan and local Labour Party TD, Derek Nolan about housing issues in Galway.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Sentinel.