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.

The Dáil met on Thursday (20 Feb) following the General Election 2020. Seán Ó Fearghaíl retained the Ceann Comhairle position, winning the chair against Denis Naughten. Micheal Martin was then nominated by the Fianna Fáil party to become Taoiseach, he received 41 votes in total, with 4 independent votes, from Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish and Micheal McNamara. Sinn Féin then nominated Mary Lou McDonald. She received the most votes of all 3 nominees on the day with 45 votes cast in her favour. The sitting Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, then received just 36 votes, one more than his parties 35 votes coming from Independent TD Seán Canney.

The Sinn Féin Party will continue to attempt to for a government with smaller left wing parties and independents. After a successful general election campaign SF are trying to form a government of the left.

The Fine Gael leadership has decided to go into opposition. The hope is that they will lead the opposition against a Sinn Féin/Fianna Fáil Coalition. Yesterday (18/02/2020) the Parliamentary Party of Fine Gael had a six hour meeting, at which they agreed to go into Opposition.

Sinn Féin made surprise gains in Saturday's Irish General Election getting 25% of first preference votes, however due to the lower number of candidates it missed out on the highest number of seats in the next Dail (Parliament) with Fianna Fáil getting 38 seats just one above Sinn Féin. Fine Gael lost 12 seats to come third with just 35 seats. The Greens were the other big winners with 12 seats, Labour lost one seat while the Social Democrats gained 4.