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Tue 05 May 2004Mission impossible as FF seeks to match previous tally of sixANALYSIS/FF Euro campaign: Fianna Fail knows domestic matters will be to the fore on June 11th, writes Mark BrennockWhile the Taoiseach's speech and Fianna Fáil's manifesto concentrated entirely on European issues, domestic matters kept intruding at yesterday's launch of the party's European campaign.Opinion polls and reports from canvassing suggest that Fianna Fáil may well suffer in the June 11th elections because of the continuing public belief that the party broke election promises in the 2002 general election campaign. The Taoiseach strongly rejected this yesterday, making clear his belief that the media had played a major role in fomenting this belief, and that the press did not give adequate coverage to the Government's defence.