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The Big Picture

mike65 · 2002-05-18 22:36:07

Its too early to give a defivinitve overview but a few things emerge first that the PDs' tactic of scaring the horses about a Fianna Fail admin seems to have worked a treat but at the expense of FG not FF. Its great to see leading provo baiter Michael McDowell returned in such fashion and I look foward to his first dial…

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Its too early to give a defivinitve overview but a few things emerge first that the PDs' tactic of scaring the horses about a Fianna Fail admin seems to have worked a treat but at the expense of FG not FF. Its great to see leading provo baiter Michael McDowell returned in such fashion and I look foward to his first dial encounter with Martin Ferris!

The Sinn Fein vote seems to have come at the expense
of WP, SWP and SP in particular though Labour proberly lost votes to them too. They'll now have to discover what the fetching and carrying of dial politics is like, it'll be interesting to see how thier support holds come the next election.

Local issues now rule as well, with hospital candidates doing well in some constituencies and Marian Harkins' success.

Fine Gael are in trouble but maybe trouble that they've needed for years. Its only when the wheels fall off, that the core problems are addressed. This is a turning point and they'll be a much better party in 10 years.

Labours fortunes have not improved it seems, no Quinn tide.
Maybe they wont be so standoff-ish regarding pre-election pacts next time. They also have to watch Sinn Fein.

As for FF, well dispite not having "a leader of men" dispite being a party of chancers and dodgy dealers they realy could'nt loose, as Gerry Adams put it FF best weapon was FG.

I just hope they require the PDs' to form a stable government.

Mike.

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