From the third surviving Belfast News Letter of December 22 1738 (December 23 in the modern calendar). The paper was founded a year earlier, in September 1737 but all the earliest papers are lost:
Sinn Fein has suffered its largest ever setback in the Irish Behaviour & Attitudes poll at the end of what has been a difficult year for the party south of the border.
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