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Thu 05 May 2004Holding status quo will be a resultCouncil area profile: The civil war parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, would completely dominate the outgoing county council in Donegal were it not for the remnant of a more recent conflict.Some 34 years after the Arms Crisis, Independent Fianna Fáil fights on. Even with IFF's four seats in 1999, official FF fell just one short of an overall majority, a prize that will probably elude it again this time.