The real reason why FG is surging ahead

I WAS surprised at how your coverage of recent opinion polls seemed to miss out on possibly the most glaring feature of the results.

There has been much speculation about the reasons for the surge to Fine Gael and the relative stagnation of Labour and the Green Party.

What, you might ask, is the sudden attraction? The obvious answer, which seems to have gone under the radar of most commentators, is that FG is the only party to have categorically ruled out coalition with Fianna Fáil.