The level of abuse that politicians receive on social media has become a topic of major concern among politicians, the media and academics, not just in Ireland but across all democracies. In some instances this abuse has manifested into physical assault and intimidation of politicians at their homes or as they conduct their work. In Ireland there have been reports that online abuse of politicians is on the rise with abuse becoming more personalized, viscous and sustained. In some instances abuse has been reported to be directed at family members and many politicians in Ireland have commented that the level of abuse leads them to engage less or not at all on social media. In this analysis the nature of abuse towards politicians on Twitter will be investigated. Data on tweets directed at Irish politicians was collected over a 12 month period and the context of tweets (i.e. whether they were abusive or not) was determined using artificial intelligence.

This document outlines an attempt to use machine learning to predict the results for one political part in an Irish general election

Pattern of vote transfers from the INES UCD Ireland Thinks online poll conducted after the 2020 Irish general election https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ines2020