Órlaithí Flynn

Órlaithí Flynn is an Irish politician and MLA who represents Belfast West in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Órlaithí Flynn MLA
Flynn in January 2022
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast West
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 December 2016
Preceded by	Jennifer McCann
Personal details
Born	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin

The daughter of Patrick Flynn, an Irish republican in West Belfast, Flynn was educated at St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls before studying politics at the University of Ulster. She then completed a master's degree in Irish politics at Queen's University Belfast.^[1][2]

Flynn joined Sinn Féin as a teenager.^[2] She worked as an adviser to a succession of politicians: Rosie McCorley, Sue Ramsey and, finally, Alex Maskey. In 2016, she was selected by the party to become a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast West, replacing Jennifer McCann.^[1] Flynn was re-elected in the assembly elections of March 2017.^[3]