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#GE11 Profile: Labour now the second largest party in the State…

Mick Fealty on February 27, 2011, 8:04 pm

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And by some way. Dublin North West has two Labour seats and one that’s newly Sinn Fein. No Fianna Fail TD for the first time since the 1920s. There are a further two in Dublin South Central. And Ann Phelan took the first seat in Carlow Kilkenny (you can pick up my RTE Audio Boo interview with her here). And in Galway East, they’ll pick up a seat for the first time ever. The Gilmore for Taoiseach posters aside, this …

#GE11 Profile: Fianna Fail no longer an undisputed “Republican Party”…

Mick Fealty on February 27, 2011, 10:47 am

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From a long term point of view, the big story of the election was what’s happened to Fianna Fail. Not so much a notice to quit as almost a notice to quit trading. Bertie’s seat bonus has gone (and may never return), and the core kicked them pretty hard and coming on the heel of too Local Government wipeouts, they have a nasty generational gap to bridge. Back in January, Liam Clarke rather ominously suggested that Fianna Fail may be …