Poll findings - Anti-Bush feeling running high

It would be unthinkable just a few very short years ago that the majority of the Irish people would be hostile to the visit to this country by an American president.

Yet, that extraordinary fact has emerged from the latest Irish Examiner public opinion poll which was conducted in the East constituency, or Leinster, as part of the paper’s series in connection with the local and European elections.

Of those polled, a very substantial 67% do not want President George W Bush to come to this country at the end of next month for the EU-US summit.