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Wed 05 May 2004Smaller parties aim to break FF/FG holdCOUNCIL PROFILE: Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown: Bringing down the ruling coalition is the great dream of the smaller parties in Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have shared power in the council for as long as many people can remember, and the opposition would dearly love to end this cosy duopoly.Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown: 28 seatsLabour, in particular, nurses a grudge against an arrangement that has excluded the party from the council chair for almost 30 years.