The son of former Fianna Fail Cork North Central TD Noel O’Flynn, Ken O’Flynn (45) entered the general election race on the back of an impressive local election performance in June when he won 3,134 votes when running for the first time for Independent Ireland.
Co-opted on to Cork City Council 2008 to replace his brother, Gary, Ken O’Flynn was elected in the next three local election as a Fianna Fáil candidate but he quit the party before the 2020 general election when he failed to get a party nomination and ran as an Independent but lost out on the last seat.
Mr O’Flynn has been outspoken on the issue of immigration, calling for greater controls on people entering the country when the state is unable to house its own citizens. He says he is not opposed to foreigners coming to Ireland, pointing out his husband Francisco Cuevas is Spanish.
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