Ivana Bacik has become The Labour Party\'s 7th sitting member of the Dail, having been elected to the Dail tonight (09/07/2021) in a By Election in Dublin Bay South. She top the poll of 1st preference votes with 30% support, far exceeding her party\'s performance in recent polls which put them between 3% and 6% support. Government party Fine Gael were in second place with 26% support, while opposition party Sinn Fein had just 16% of the vote. While The Green Party lost its footing in this constituency it still did far better than the Fianna Fail party, which only managed a 5% of the vote. Trinity College Dublin will now have a by-election to vote in a new member of the Seanad.

The Sunday Times/Behaviour and Attitudes poll shows 30% support for Sinn Fein. The poll also shows a rise in support for Fine Geal with a 29% share of the vote. Fianna Fail is at 20%, while The Green Part is on 6%. Other parties and Independents are on 16%.

The latest political poll suggests that Fine Gael would get 37% of all first preference votes with opposition party Sinn Fein getting 26%. The two other government parties don\'t do as well as Fine Gael with Fianna Fail getting just 12% and the Green Party on 5%. Others and Independents are on 20%. The poll was conducted for The Irish Daily Mail on Sunday by Ireland Thinks.