Support for Reform Alliance becoming a party falls sharply

The Reform Alliance’s window of opportunity to set up a political party may be receding after an opinion poll has showed support for such a move was significantly down.

Following a successful “Monster Rally” in Dublin at the weekend, a Sunday Independent/Millward Brown opinion poll showed while support for a new party was at 35%, it was down 11 points since last November. After the day-long rally at the RDS, which was attended by a crowd of 1,350, the movement’s high-profile Lucinda Creighton insisted its formation was not about the “perpetuation of party politics” but left the door open to the possibility saying “what happens in the future is anybody’s guess”.

Likewise Galway Senator Fidelma Healy Eames hinted it was on the horizon; “I’m not saying we’ll never set up a political party… we may.”