Fianna Fáil has opened up a lead on Fine Gael in an opinion poll, for the second time in a week.
The survey for tomorrow's Sunday Business Post has Fianna Fáil on 27%, with Fine Gael on 24.
This is the first RED C / SBP poll of the year and is comparable to their last poll at the end of November.
Fine Gael drops a point to 24 percent, as do their coalition partners the independent alliance from 4 to 3.
Fianna Fáil's the winner, going up three points to 27%, and means following on from last weekend's Sunday Times poll, two surveys now show them with a lead over Fine Gael.
Sinn Féin drop two points to 14, with non aligned independents going up 2 to 14.
Labour's unchanged on 5, the People Before Profit Anti Austerity Alliance drops one to 4, the Greens go up 1 to 4 and the Social Democrats are unchanged on 4. Renua goes up 1 point to 1 percent.
This poll will heap further pressure on Enda Kenny hours after the Taoiseach was forced to put out a statement earlier insisting there would be no coalition with Sinn Féin after appearing on Thursday to open the door for such a partnership after the next election.
Páraic Gallagher reports:
