Patricia O'Lynn (born 28 September 1989) is a Northern Irish academic, educator, and politician who was an Alliance Party Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from 2022 to 2023.
[2][5][6] O'Lynn ran as the Alliance Party candidate for North Antrim in the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election, but was unsuccessful.
[15] Jim Allister, on the other hand, said that Mervyn Storey's loss was a "matter of great sadness to me that his seat has been taken by the crypto-nationalist Alliance Party".
[17] O'Lynn said that it "has been an honour to serve the people of North Antrim" but regrets that she could not "do so in the Assembly chamber itself due to the ongoing impasse, which has proved frustrating".
[20] On 16 March, two weeks before leaving office, O'Lynn shared a new personal website that describes her as a keynote speaker, author and coach.
[21] The vacant position created from Lynn's resignation was filled by the co-option of Sian Mulholland, an Alliance councillor on Lisburn and Castlereagh Council.