Madam, - In response to letters on Fine Gael's electoral performance, I draw attention to the wilderness years of Kevin Rudd's Australian Labour Party, Stephen Harper's Canadian Conservative Party and Felipe Calderon's Mexican National Action Party.
All were out of power for a generation. All faced with monolithic opponents who had won election after election. All happily holding the reins of power now.
Our day will come, and all that. - Yours, etc,
Senator PASCHAL DONOHOE,
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Seanad Éireann,
Kildare Street,
Dublin 2.