Beverley Flynn was born on 9 June 1966 and is an Irish former Fianna Fail politician who was a Teachta Dala for the Mayo constituency from 1997 to 2011.
15 Facts About Beverley Flynn
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Beverley Flynn is the daughter of the former Fianna Fail minister and European commissioner, Padraig Flynn, who once described her as a "class act".
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Beverley Flynn first stood for election in the June 1994 Mayo West by-election as the Fianna Fail candidate, but was not successful.
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Beverley Flynn was first elected to Dail Eireann at the 1997 general election, as a Fianna Fail TD for the Mayo constituency.
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The RTE journalist Charlie Bird claimed in a report that, while an employee of National Irish Bank, Flynn had assisted clients of the bank in evading tax by funnelling undeclared income to Clerical Medical schemes based in the Isle of Man.
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Beverley Flynn denied the claims and sued RTE, Bird and retired farmer James Howard for libel in the High Court in 2001.
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Beverley Flynn appealed against the decision to the Supreme Court, where she lost.
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Lawyers for RTE accused Beverley Flynn of embarking on a "litigious frolic in her own interest".
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Beverley Flynn subsequently abandoned plans to challenge the legislation, which was eventually changed in 2014 with Mick Wallace, a bankrupt TD, sitting from 2016 to 2019.
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Beverley Flynn was forced to resign from the party in February 1999 for refusing to support a Government motion against her father, but rejoined in November 1999.
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Beverley Flynn was expelled again in May 2004, after the results of her libel appeal.
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Beverley Flynn successfully contested the 2007 general election as an independent and was elected on the eighth count.
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Beverley Flynn was readmitted to the Fianna Fail once more, at a meeting of its national executive on 3 April 2008, in what has been described as "questionable circumstances".
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Beverley Flynn stated that the allowance was used to benefit her constituents.
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Beverley Flynn retired from politics at the 2011 general election.