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Wed 05 May 2004Sinn Fein has chance to be county council's largest partyCouncil area profile/Monaghan: The future of Monaghan hospital is the biggest issue in the forthcoming local elections across a large part of this county.The hospital issue dominated the 2002 general election campaign, and saw the election of hospital candidate Mr Paudge Connolly. The current campaign is no different. Fianna Fáil, which had a poor performance in the last local elections, is set for further losses, with the party in effective disarray in the northern part of the county.