Paul Hosford: Parties cutting corners to get up the greasy poll

All three Coalition partners and the main opposition party are now lined up in a circular firing squad over phoney polling

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar’s campaign used students posing as representatives of a fictitious polling company as part of his Dáil re-election bid.

Like most people, I would not consider myself naive — though that itself could be the hallmark of naivety.

But as the scale and method of the use of anonymous polling throughout the years by political parties has come to light, I have found myself somewhat taken aback.