Nearly 60 percent of respondents in the Lansdowne poll said Ireland would pass a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty later this year, and 61 percent said they were concerned about the country losing its status in Europe.
Nearly three quarters of the 1,000 people asked said the government was handling the economy poorly, up from 63 percent in September. Just less than half said they expected the recession, which started in 2008, to last more than three years.
Around 56 percent said they expected the government, whose term runs out in 2012, would be forced into a general election this year.
Highlighting the soured public mood in Ireland, 46 percent of those surveyed said they expected their personal situation to be worse off next year. In 1997, when Ireland's economy was booming, that was only nine percent.
Interviewing for the poll was conducted between January 12 and 23.
(With Reuters.)
