No rhetorical slips this year now that OFMdFM is paying for #Census2011

In the Irish News Fionnuala makes an interesting point in the constitutional stakes that will follow the census figures. Unlike 2002, no one who matters in local politics is going to get blindsided like they were ten years ago, since OFMdFM is paying, they get to see the real figures first.

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