Not so much a party... more a powerful lobby

I WISH to congratulate the Progessive Democrats on their significant improvement in the latest opinion poll.

This shift from 3% to 4% is surely seismic.

Allowing for undecided voters, and considering a sample size of 1,000, the pollsters encountered 6.7 extra individuals who indicated an intention to vote PD, slightly more than would fit in a mini but slightly less than your standard people carrier.

Rather than being described as a political party, it could hardly be considered unfair to describe them as the country’s most powerful lobby group.

Michael Kennelly

46 Main Street

Castleisland

Co Kerry