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📊 "IRELAND'S older population is more PROGRESSIVE" Kevin Cunningham | Next Left Pollsters
FEPS Talks
27 minutes
4 weeks ago
📊 "IRELAND'S older population is more PROGRESSIVE" Kevin Cunningham | Next Left Pollsters
🇮🇪 Delivery Matters More Than Promises
In this episode of the Progressive Pollsters FEPS Talks series, Kevin Cunningham, MD and founder of Ireland Thinks, joins Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, to reflect on the evolving dynamics of Irish politics — from shifting trust in institutions to the lessons progressives can draw from Ireland’s distinctive landscape.
🗳️ Cunningham explains how delivery, rather than rhetoric, shaped voter confidence during the cost-of-living crisis — and why Ireland’s absence of a strong radical right sets it apart. Yet, he also highlights the warning signs: growing frustration among younger voters, deep divides in housing and migration debates, and a widening gender gap — with young women more focused on Gaza and social justice, and young men increasingly concerned about immigration.
🌹 In the run-up to PES Congress in Amsterdam Progressive Mobilisation, the Next Left Progressive Pollsters series highlights the ongoing work of the FEPS-Karl-Renner-Institut's Progressive Pollsters network, which brings together leading pollsters and political analysts to discuss and reflect on key political and social trends shaping Europe’s destiny, especially following the European elections in 2024.
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FEPS Talks
Series of podcasts related with the research and policy activity of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies