Debt deal fails to deliver bounce as FF tops poll

Government hopes that the bank debt deal would secure its second term in office have been dashed after a new opinion poll showed the deal did not produce the bounce that Fine Gael and Labour had expected.

Instead Fianna Fáil remains — in two successive polls — the most popular party in the country when the large proportion of undecided voters are taken out of the equation.

The Millward Brown poll in the Sunday Independent is the first since the announcement of the debt deal that will ease the toxic bank debt burden and push it onto future generations.