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Phil Flanagan (born 16 July 1984) is a Sinn Féin politician in Ireland who was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in May 2011. He represents Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency) and is the Sinn Féin party spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Investment. Flanagan also served as a councillor on Fermanagh District Council following his co-option in 2009 and re-election in May 2011. He resigned from his council seat in August 2011 in line with Sinn Féin party policy on dual mandates and was subsequently replaced on the council by Stephen Huggett. Flanagan is from Garrison, County Fermanagh and was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen. He is a former retail manager and small-business owner. In references to the Seán Quinn case, Flanagan stated that, "It is not up to the media, to politicians or to anyone else to determine the outcome of this case. That decision needs to be made by a judge and the sooner that happens and a clear outcome is decided, the better it will be for all concerned." ==Controversies== Since being elected to the Assembly Flanagan has been involved in a number of controversies, a lot of which involved social media. In 2011 it was revealed that Flanagan had been suspended from his previous employment during a probe into higher than usual expenditure from the shops petty cash. He denied any wrongdoing and said the £2000 of petty cash had been used to buy coffee and tea as the shop had no kitchen unlike other shops in their chain. In 2012 he tweeted remarks about Tom Elliott and Mike Nesbitt being "clampits." Also in 2012 he posted a comment on Facebook about the village of Clabby being a "black hole." In July 2013 Phil Flanagan retweeted a sexually explicit comment/joke about the birth of the English royal Prince George.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sinn Fein politician faces probe over offensive Twitter remark about royal baby )〕 In 2014 Mr Flanagan tweeted comments about Tom Elliott's career in the UDR which he later removed from Twitter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elliott and Flanagan tweet row could end up in High Court )〕 In February 2015 he tweeted comments suggesting that William of Orange was a terrorist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Row over MLA’s William of Orange ‘terrorist’ tweet )〕 In August 2015 he tweeted that a public sector organization (Roads Service) resurfaced a road for 12 July and yet wouldn't be aware that a major GAA game was being played. He refused to apologise for his remarks saying he was only joking. Also in August 2015 he got into a war of words on twitter with Máiría Cahill which resulted in him tweeting the following apology, "I'm sorry if my tweet earlier caused any upset or offence." In November 2015 when asked whether ISIS were terrorists he said he was not comfortable with the way organisations were demonised by being labelled terrorists. When he was later criticised for his remarks he stated on his twitter account that he believed ISIS to be terrorists. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phil Flanagan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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