Letters to the Editor: We should ask why political pollsters are so wide of the mark 

One reader comments on the apparent unpredictability of voters in Britain and France and here at home in Ireland 

A reader queries how political poll predictions were so wide of the mark regarding the performance of Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin. 

One of things I observed in the recent French and British general elections is the volatility of the electorate. Linked to that, we see how people seem to be shifting their electoral preferences, sometimes very dramatically.

The idea of a stable electorate in those two jurisdictions seems to have been kicked out of the window for now. I think that this is similarly true for Ireland.