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Thu 05 May 2004FF to control de Valera county despite grumbling over healthCouncil area profile: De Valera county has been a Fianna Fáil stronghold since local elections began. For more than 70 years now, the party has had uninterrupted control of the county council - a record that looks set to be extended notwithstanding local grumbling over Government policy on health and regional development.Earlier this year, in an internal party memo, Fianna Fáil's Tony Killeen TD blamed the failure of the Government to make progress on the Ennis by-pass and Ennis General Hospital as the chief reasons behind the party's losing its third seat in Clare in the 2002 general election.