Flynn joins the canvass The Mayo TD Ms Beverley Flynn has canvassed in recent days for Fianna Fáil local election candidates despite being expelled from membership of the party.
Ms Flynn canvassed in Castlebar and Lahardane with sitting Fianna Fáil councillor Mr Sean Burke and party candidate Mr Eamonn Joyce, who are both running for Mayo County Council in the six-seat Castlebar electoral area.
Ms Flynn said she has no problem canvassing for Fianna Fáil colleagues and will continue to do so.
"I have no difficulty travelling the length and breadth of Co Mayo in rewarding the loyalty people have shown to me.
"It is my great pleasure and honour to go out on behalf of these people. They have worked very hard on behalf of the party," she said.
Ms Flynn was ejected from the parliamentary party and the Fianna Fáil party following her recent failed Supreme Court appeal over
claims that she had assisted people to
evade tax.
Sitting councillors and candidates had been very supportive of her since then, said Ms Flynn. She had also experienced high levels of support on the canvass.
"I value loyalty," she said, "these people have been loyal to me and I intend to return that loyalty. They have given up so much of their time for me in the past."
Ms Flynn, a former member of the Micheál Ó Moráin cumann in Castlebar, rejected any notion that assisting with the canvass would place election candidates who are members of the cumann in danger of being expelled from the party.
"You do not have to be a member of the party to help someone out on a canvass," she said.
Mr Joyce said that he did not see it as breaching any rules of the organisation.
"I am only trying to get elected. In our hearts we know Beverley is Fianna Fáil. I have no regrets whatsoever," he said.
Fianna Fáil is hoping to take a seat more than Fine Gael in the Castlebar electoral area, where party leader Mr Enda Kenny's brother, Henry, is running.