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'NEW PARTY LIKE FANTASY FOOTIE'.


A HOTEL owner has set up a political party and has pledged it will be inspired by fantasy football Fantasy football can refer to:
  • Fantasy football (American)
  • Fantasy football (soccer)
  • Fantasy football (board games)
  • Fantasy Football League
  • Fantasy Football (Australian Rules)
.

Ann Sweeney said although she is currently the only member, her New Ireland New Ireland, volcanic island (1990 pop. 64,615), c.3,340 sq mi (8,650 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of Papua New Guinea. New Ireland is largely mountainous, rising to c.4,000 ft (1,220 m).  Party will convene three afternoons a week.

And the meetings will be held in the Carraig Rua Hotel Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal, which was emptied of booze Booze

sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153]

See : Drunkenness
 by gardai three weeks ago. Gardai also confiscated con·fis·cate  
tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates
1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury.

2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate.

adj.
 all the drink in her nearby Boatshed pub but that was returned two days ago on the orders of Letterkenny District Court.

Ms Sweeney said she set up the party after a number of difficulties with planning authorities and more recently with gardai when 40 of them raided her hotel and pub and forced her to shut down temporarily.

She added: "Over the last three or four years we have been legislated out of it with officials who won't see you for two months without notice or won't speak to you for two years if you don't approach the matter in the correct way according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 them.

"They know what they don't want but have no idea what they do want.

"What we have to ask ourselves is, 'Are the civil servants serving us or are we serving them?' The same with the politicians.

"It appears to me as if it is self-service as opposed to public service. As a result of all this I have launched the New Ireland Party.

"The only member is me and that's the way it may possibly continue but it's a coming together of free thinkers for the greater good.

"I am suggesting the creation of a different system, a bit like fantasy football, where you have groups of people morphing Transforming one image into another; for example, a car into a tiger. The term comes from metamorphosis. Morphing programs work by marking prominent points, such as tips and corners, of the before and after images.  in and out on issue-based politics as opposed to party politics."
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Aug 2, 2008
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