A Fianna Fail councillor has revealed that he owns 42 London apartments, in his annual declaration of interests. Cork city councillor Kenneth O’Flynn has said he owns property in Ireland and abroad, including London and Spain.
According to O’Flynn’s handwritten declaration, he has either a full or partial interest in 42 apartments in the London docklands and six business units in Marbella, in Spain.
He also said he owned an apartment in Limerick and a house in Dublin 10. In Cork, he listed a business premises in Kilnap, a property on the Mallow Road and another in Mahon.
O’Flynn declined to comment further last week.
According to a report by RTE’s investigations unit last year, O’Flynn was one of 40 councillors nationwide who omitted properties from last year’s ethics declaration. Among the interests left out were “an apartment in Limerick, a retail unit in Mahon, Cork city, a business premises in Kilnap in Cork, and an industrial premises, also in Kilnap”, according to RTE.
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O’Flynn has been a councillor since 2008. He is a former deputy lord mayor of Cork. He previously worked for an international property company and has owned businesses in Spain, Brazil and Ireland, according to his profile on Fianna Fail’s website.
The councillor is a son of Noel O’Flynn, a former TD for the Cork North-Central constituency who served from 1997 to 2011. While in government, O’Flynn grabbed headlines due to his views on immigration.
Kenneth is also a brother of Gary O’Flynn, a councillor from 2003 to 2008 who was convicted of mortgage fraud, while working as a mortgage adviser. Gary was sentenced to five years in prison in 2015 for soliciting someone to kill three people involved in the investigation of the fraud.