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| | Fine Gael stares into the abyss: ThePost.ie (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Fine Gael's leader, Michael Noonan, spent the past week on the road in the battle bus, unveiling new policies, pressing the flesh, his eyes scanning hungrily for a way to stave off electoral defeat. |
 | | Historically, Fine Gael was the pro-Treaty side, the party that saw itself as the guardian of the state from rebels and anyone whose loyalty was suspect. |
 | | Fine Gael people secretly adored Jack Lynch, and still believe he `saved the state', because he preferred to watch Irish citizens in Belfast being murdered and burned in their homes than to order a rescue effort that might destabilise the Republic. |
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