Adams ‘deeply disappointed’ by popularity slump in opinion poll

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams admitted yesterday he was deeply disappointing his personal popularity had slumped dramatically amongst the public.

Mr Adams’s satisfaction rating has plummeted to just 31%, down more than 20 points in recent months, in the wake of the Republican movement’s links to robbery, murder and money laundering.

Yet the Millward Brown IMS poll in the Irish Independent shows support for Sinn Féin is almost unchanged, despite the party coming under fire over the Northern Bank raid, the murder of Robert McCartney and IRA criminality.