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Thu 05 May 2004Rabbitte says FF knows it has failed DublinLabour local election manifesto: Many Fianna Fáil candidates in Dublin are "trying to pass themselves off as independents" because of Government failures on crime, transport, housing and hospitals, the Labour leader, Mr Pat Rabbitte, has claimed.In a statement yesterday to mark the publication of his party's Dublin manifesto, Mr Rabbitte said it was "almost impossible to find the party logo, or even the party colours, on a Fianna Fáil poster. They know they have let the people of Dublin down, and they know they are going to be punished."