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Mon 05 May 2009Labour's Childers has edge on FG's Phelan in race for third seat
CONSTITUENCY PROFILE: IRELAND EAST:AT A time when Fianna Fáil activists around the country freely admit there is unprecedented hostility towards them on the doorsteps and when Fine Gael is riding high in the opinion polls, there is a certain irony in the fact that the main Opposition party is fighting to retain a European seat in the constituency of Ireland East.
The political “grunts” who do the hard work on the ground all call it “Leinster” and cannot get their heads or their tongues around the “Ireland East” formulation.
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