Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny's Fine Gael party recovered from a recent slide in popularity in two opinion polls on Saturday but his junior coalition partners fell to their lowest ever level six days from a national election, Reuters reported. Ireland votes on Friday in what promises to be a tight contest that opinion polls suggest may fail to produce a stable government. Kenny's Fine Gael, whose support had fallen to a six-month low of 26 percent in the most recent poll on Tuesday, bounced back to 30 percent in both the Sunday Business Post/Red C and Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes surveys. Kenny is campaigning to return to power with junior partner Labour, which fell one point to 8 percent in the Red C poll and dropped two points to just 4 percent in the Behaviour & Attitudes survey, a level the party questioned. At a combined 38 percent, the parties would still be 11 seats short of the 80 needed to secure a majority, according to Adrian Kavanagh, a politics lecturer at National University of Ireland, Maynooth who analyses each poll.
