Party Profiles

Radical socialist left: public ownership, tax the wealthy, abolition of the two-tier health system, anti-racist and pro-migrant, absolute neutrality, anti-establishment.

Left-republican: state-led housing, progressive taxation, universal public services, cost-of-living populism, firmer on immigration than the smaller left, strong defence of neutrality and the Triple Lock.

Centre-left: Nordic-model public services, transparency and political reform, progressive tax, protective of neutrality.

Social-democratic: strong welfare state and public services, progressive tax, the most pro-EU of the left, neutrality-cautious.

Green and centre-left progressive: climate-first, state housing, public transport, wealth taxes, rights-based immigration, strongly pro-EU.

Cross-cutting: economically left on public services, state housing, and wealth taxes, but socially conservative, tougher on immigration and crime, republican, Eurosceptic, anti-establishment.

Centrist catch-all and senior government party: mixed economy, pragmatic, law-and-order leaning, pro-EU, supports reform of the Triple Lock.

Centre-right and government party: most pro-market and tax-cutting of the main parties, enterprise-friendly, strongest on EU integration and EU defence cooperation, law-and-order.

Right-wing populist and rural: lower taxes and efficiency, stricter immigration, anti-carbon-tax, pro-farming and pro-road, Eurosceptic, anti-establishment.

Pragmatic, centrist-to-centre-right, local and regional-infrastructure focused, broadly supportive of the Fianna Fail-Fine Gael programme for government.

Caveat: Independent blocs are estimates of a shared outlook, not a roll-call. Individual Independents can diverge from the bloc centre of gravity.

Rural, socially conservative, localist and populist: pro-car and pro-road, anti-carbon-tax, traditional on social questions, protective of neutrality, sceptical of the Dublin establishment.

Caveat: Independent blocs are estimates of a shared outlook, not a roll-call. Individual Independents can diverge from the bloc centre of gravity.

Socialist and anti-establishment left: strong public services, pro-migrant, anti-government from the left, emphatic on neutrality and international solidarity.

Caveat: Independent blocs are estimates of a shared outlook, not a roll-call. Individual Independents can diverge from the bloc centre of gravity.

Single-issue party rooted in the defective-concrete-blocks redress campaign, with a rural, community-focused, cost-of-living-sympathetic and redress-grievance profile.

Caveat: Low-confidence estimate: 100% Redress has no broad national platform, so many answers are neutral where there is no public record.