Original sentence: In a 2000 speech to the American Bar Association, the then party leader, Mary Harney, appeared to express a desire that Ireland become "closer to Boston than Berlin", adopting US free market models for economic development, health, education, and other services rather than European Continental models because she believed that the continental countries (such as Germany and France), while having more equality had bad economies and high unemployment.Michael McDowell resigned from public life after he lost his seat, and Mary Harney was asked by the party chairman to resume the role of party leader
Edited sentence: Following the disastrous 2007 general election there are now only two PD TDs left:.In a 2000  speech to the American Bar Association, the then party leader, Mary Harney, appeared to express a desire that Ireland become "closer to Boston than Berlin", adopting US free market models for economic development, health, education, and other services rather than European Continental models because she believed that the continental countries (such as Germany and France), while having more equality had bad economies and high unemployment.Michael McDowell resigned from public life after he lost his seat, and Mary Harney resumed the leadership