Limerick has little sympathy for O’Dea, poll shows

ALTHOUGH Willie O’Dea polled a massive 19,082 votes at the last election, a new opinion poll yesterday showed he does not have a lot of sympathy among the Limerick public over losing his cabinet seat.

A significant 63% of those polled believed it was necessary for him to resign as Minister for Defence following the ‘brothel-gate’ tape controversy.

The poll was conducted for the Limerick Leader newspaper by researchers at the University of Limerick (UL) and involved 300 telephone interviews.