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Fri 03 Mar 2007Harney warns of dangers of rainbow coalitionA warning about the consequences for Ireland's future if a party, suspicious of multinational companies and opposed to economic growth, was included in the next government has been issued by Minister for Health Mary Harney.Launching her election campaign for Dublin Mid West at the Clarion Hotel in Liffey Valley last night, Ms Harney warned about the dangers of a rainbow coalition and said new jobs and investment would not come to Ireland in the next five years if a party opposed to enterprise was part of a government.