\u2022 78% of adults feel the next President should have political experience.
\no This is highest for Boomers with 82% feeling the next President should have political experience.<\/p>\n
\u2022 When asked what are the most important quality the next President should have;
\no 28% of adults say it\u2019s a connection with ordinary people
\no 20% say it\u2019s experience in politics
\no 20% say it\u2019s a defender or Irish culture and heritage
\no 15% say it\u2019s fresh outsider perspective<\/p>\n
\u2022 Highest at 28%, Gen Z adults think fresh outside perspective is the most important quality the next President should have.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Over half (55%) of adults feel connected to the Presidency with 14% of these feeling very connected.<\/p>\n
\u2022 More than 1 in 4 adults (28%) believe that younger voters will have a bigger influence in this election compared to the past ones.<\/p>\n
o 45% of adults aged 25-34 believe that younger voters will have a bigger influence in this election.<\/p>\n
\u2022 30% of adults feel the Presidency should focus more on building unity at home in Ireland and 24% think they should focus more on representing Ireland abroad.
\no 41% of Gen Z adults feel the Presidency should focus more on domestic unity.<\/p>\n
For more statistics you can visit us at our blog: https:\/\/ireachhq.com\/blog<\/strong><\/p>\n About iReach Insights<\/strong><\/p>\n iReach Insights provides a range of research and market intelligence services in Ireland and Europe. iReach has built a Consumer Decisions Research Panel of 40,000 members in Ireland, delivering robust research insights. The survey questions were included in the Nationally Representative iReach Consumer Decisions Omnibus run between the 17th and 24th of September and has a 3% Confidence Interval and 95% Confidence Level.<\/p>\n Questions asked of adults nationwide:<\/strong><\/p>\n Q1. How likely are you to vote in the upcoming Presidential Election? iReach Insights Limited \u2013 Temple Hall, Temple Road, Blackrock, CO. Dublin, IRELAND.<\/strong> \u2022 78% of adults feel the next President should have political experience. o This is highest for Boomers with 82% feeling the next President should have political experience. \u2022 When asked what are the most important quality the next President should have; o 28% of adults say it\u2019s a connection with ordinary people o 20%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQ2. Which of these qualities do you think is most important in the next President of Ireland?
\nQ3. Do you feel connected to the Presidency, or does it feel distant from your everyday life?
\nQ4. Do you believe younger voters will have a bigger influence in this election compared to past ones?
\nQ5. Should the next President be someone with political experience, or from outside politics?
\nQ6. Do you think the Presidency should focus more on Ireland\u2019s global image or domestic unity?<\/p>\n
\niReach Managing Director: Oisin Byrne<\/strong>
\nT: 01-214 3740 or email: oisin.byrne@ireachhq.com or phone 086 8506364<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"