Phil Flynn faces charges after gun found in office

FORMER Government troubleshooter and trade union figurehead Phil Flynn is facing firearms charges after Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) officers discovered a small gun in his Dublin office.

Mr Flynn, who as the former head of the Government’s decentralisation programme was one of Bertie Ahern’s closest associates, has been under investigation as part of a massive CAB probe into IRA money laundering activities in the wake of last December’s Northern Bank robbery.

Last night it emerged that, as part of that operation CAB officers found what they described as an unlicensed ‘pen gun’ and ammunition in Mr Flynn’s Dublin office in Harcourt Street.