{"id":56835,"date":"2025-09-11T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56835\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:01:14","slug":"almost-half-of-irish-public-say-triple-lock-should-change-new-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56835\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost half of Irish public say Triple Lock should change, new poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Percentage of people backing Government\u2019s stance jumps eight points since 2023\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ireland Thinks poll shows a 3pc slim majority in favour of changing the Triple Lock system. Photo: Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/02463cdd-5a25-4a2f-b5e0-92c47208f239.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Ireland Thinks poll shows a 3pc slim majority in favour of changing the Triple Lock system. Photo: Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A slim majority now back the Government\u2019s move to soften the Triple Lock on sending Irish troops abroad, according to an Ireland Thinks poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, the figure of 44pc was only three points higher than the 41pc who believe Ireland should not change the policy, while 15pc were \u201cnot sure\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Percentage of people backing Government\u2019s stance jumps eight points since 2023 The Ireland Thinks poll shows a 3pc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,2188,15,16,5765,5,27172,30657,550,47,18578,7,8,11829,551,4913,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-56835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-laura-lynott","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-micheal-martin","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-paul-murphy","21":"tag-people-before-profit","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-sinn-fein","24":"tag-social-democrats","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-triple-lock","28":"tag-ukraine","29":"tag-united-nations","30":"tag-world","31":"tag-world-news","32":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}