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Tue 01 Jan 2010Can we overcome belief that FF has a right to power?
Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore need to convince the public of the radical policies they intend to put forward, writes ELAINE BYRNE
THE RETURN of the Dáil today marks the inauguration of a decade which will commemorate the 100th anniversaries of the 1916 Easter Rising, the seminal 1918 election, the first Dáil and the commencement of the War of Independence. One hundred years later and the national question is no longer one about the fight for political independence, but economic freedom.
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