Phil Flanagan (born 16 July 1984) is an Irish Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) executive and former Sinn Fein politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 2011 to 2016.

"[6] In December 2015 it was announced that Flanagan would not run in the May 2016 Assembly election, when he failed to gain the necessary support from delegates at a Fermanagh South Tyrone constituency selection convention.

[8] In February 2016 Sinn Féin decided to run an extra candidate in Fermanagh South Tyrone and the extremely popular Gildernew was added back on to party ticket.

[10] After stepping away from politics, following his electoral defeat in 2016, Flanagan became the Vice Chair of the County Fermanagh GAA Board in December 2016.

[11] In June 2018 Mr Flanagan was awarded over five thousand pounds in damages when he was discriminated against by Citizens Advice on grounds of his political opinion.

"[32] In June 2018 Tom Elliott, former MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, announced that he had not received any money from Mr Flanagan and urged him to honour his debt to him.

Mr Elliott cited the £20,000 payment Phil Flanagan received when he lost his MLA seat and the £5,865 he got in damages in an Employment Tribunal in June 2018.

[37] Only one complaint about Mr Flanagan has been found admissible so far, which was his re-tweeting of the following joke; "The news says that the duchess doll entered the hospital by the back entrance.

Although the NI Assembly Commissioner for Standards thought it worth investigating he determined Flanagan had not broken the Code of Conduct for MLAs.