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Luke 'Ming' Flanagan
Luke 'Ming' Flanagan (born 22 January 1972) is an Irish independent politician, currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Midlands–North-West constituency.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Luke 'Ming' Flanagan )〕
Flanagan served as a member of Roscommon County Council between 2004 and 2011. First elected at the 2004 local election, he was re-elected in 2009, and served as mayor from 2010 until his election as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Roscommon–South Leitrim constituency at the 2011 general election. He served in Dáil Éireann for three years before being elected as an independent candidate for the Midlands–North-West constituency at the 2014 European Parliament election. Flanagan is a social campaigner best known for his long-running involvement in the campaign for the legalisation of cannabis and addressing allegations of corruption in the Garda Síochána, the national police force.〔
==Personal life==
Flanagan is the subject of two documentary films, ''Dole Éireann'', which followed his 1997 Dáil election bid and ''The Life and Crimes of Citizen Ming'', which was shot over a longer period and documents various election bids and tangles with the law.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Life and Crimes of Citizen Ming'' )〕 He has continued to campaign for the legalisation of cannabis, and has been convicted on several occasions of possession of the drug for personal use. Flanagan served nine days of a 15-day sentence in 1998 in Loughan House open prison in County Cavan, for refusing to pay a fine imposed for breach of the Litter Pollution Act.〔 He is a distant relative of former Sinn Féin leader Michael O'Flanagan.
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