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Wed 05 May 2005Fianna Fail faces crisis in party's structure, says reportThe Fianna Fáil party is facing a serious organisational crisis according to a confidential internal party report which shows its membership now estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000, or less than half of what party officials originally believed, writes Liam Reid, Political ReporterThe report by Minister for Finance Brian Cowen paints a picture of a rural, ageing and increasingly inactive grassroots organisation. Nearly half of its party activists are over 55 years of age, one quarter of the party's local organisations are inactive, and 50 per cent of the local Fianna Fáil groups meet once a year or less.