Noel O'Flynn (born 1 December 1951) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency from 1997 to 2011.
[2] O'Flynn started a family business in 1985 in Blackpool, Cork, which supplies brake and clutch parts for trucks, buses, tractors, cars, and light commercial vehicles.
He resigned his seat in July 2003 because of the dual mandate rules which prohibit members of the Oireachtas from sitting on a local authority.
[8][9][10][11] In January 2011, O'Flynn called for Taoiseach Brian Cowen to step down as Fianna Fáil leader.
[14] O'Flynn later slated the FF leadership for allegedly failing to properly support the Seanad election bid of his son, Ken, in mid 2011.
O'Flynn left Fianna Fáil in 2015, due to his dissatisfaction with party leader Micheál Martin.
O'Flynn said that Martin was “an interim leader” and that he was still closely associated with Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, with whom he served in cabinet.
He said he was appalled by what has happened to Fianna Fáil over the past few years, and said the party had failed to attract public support since the 2011 general election.