STUDENTS AND POLITICS SURVEY 2008

POLL STORIES:

Poll shows views of students on politics
- Unusually high support for the Green Party
- Split on weather the Taoiseach should resign
- Most interested in politics, few active

Majority in dark over EU treaty
- 64 percent don't know or have no view
- No side running at 25 percent

88% do not know of Irish “digital dossiers”
- Blanket surveillance in Ireland goes unknown
- Civil rights and business groups against tracking

67% look for action on climate change issue
- Most want governments and individual to act
- 11 percent say global warming is "a scientific myth"

Mixed views on abortion
- 32 percent say it is up to the pregnant woman
- 22 percent would leave it to both biological parents

THE POLL

The Ballyfermot Post’ student and politics poll was conducted with a sample of 100 students at Ballyfermot College of Further Education.

The survey was carried out in the main, media, and arts buildings of the college on random days in the first half of February. It was written by Cian Ginty and conducted and compiled by Aisling Hearne and Liam Cahill.