Sinn Féin garnered the most first preference votes (535,595) in this year’s election and its recent Irish Times/Ipsos/MRBI poll showing of 29 per cent is up on February’s actual 25 per cent rate. Drilling down on the party’s current popularity, it garnered 40 per cent of the poll of those aged 18-24 – five per cent more than Fine Gael’s and Fianna Fáil’s tally combined. SF is the poll leader among 25-34 year-olds and, for the 35-64 cohort, its numbers are not far off the top.  Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty released the party’s budget proposals last Friday. On…

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