These four trends reshaped Irish politics in 2024

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The economic model that has brought such prosperity to Ireland as the country nimbly exploited the benefits of globalisation and of US trade with the EU and the rest of the world, that is under threat as never before.
57% : Donald Trump returns to the White House in a few weeks after his crushing victory in the November elections, just a few days before the Irish election was called.
57% : In addition, the security environment of Europe and the West is dramatically altered by the question marks brought by Trump to the US guarantee to its allies.
53% : There is a sense everywhere that with the election of Trump, the world has changed in 2024.
48% : Trump has promised to implement policies that could have profound impacts on Ireland, from tariffs to tax reform to promoting the return home of US companies from overseas.
16% : The hope in Dublin - and in Brussels - is that Trump will prove as clumsy a governor as before.

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