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Sat 05 May 2004SDLP hope fresh-faced mayor will halt slideOn the campaign trail: Sinn Féin looks confident, but the SDLP still has the air of a party licking its wounds,writes Dan Keenan.He had taken the podium at the ballroom in the Slieve Donard Hotel, which has hosted SDLP annual conferences aplenty over the last 30 years. He was flanked by a casual Gerry Adams, newly-elected Assembly member Caitríona Ruane just back from Colombia, and the candidate Bairbre de Brún.