- Between 1993 and 1997, he served as the business manager and then deputy CEO of the Irish Film Board (now Screen Ireland).
- Throughout his career, Flynn's work elevated Irish filmmakers and actors through various domestic and international co-productions, including several members of The Banshees of Inisherin team. That includes Jordan's 2009 romantic drama Odine with Farrell and McDonagh's 2014 Catholic Church abuse drama Calvary, starring Gleeson as well as Kin's Gillen.
- He had an encyclopedic knowledge of film.
- He died right after "The Banshees of Inisherin", which he co-produced, received nine Academy Award nominations.
- Began as head of development at John Boorman's Merlin Films International.
- Co-founded Metropolitan Film Productions Limited with wife Wilson in 1997, before establishing Octagon Films in 2002, developing and producing films for the international market.
- In 1997 he and his wife Juanita Wilson set up Metropolitan Films, which has been involved with more than 80 feature film and television productions.
- The son of a banker, Flynn studied for a bachelor of commerce degree at University College Dublin before going on to work at John Boorman's Merlin Films.
- When the Irish Film Board (now Screen Ireland) was re-established in 1993, he came on as business manager and later took the role of deputy chief executive.
- He was an Irish film and television producer. A producer of prodigious energy, and a key figure in the growth of the fecund Irish film industry.
- Flynn was a board member of the Screen Commission of Ireland from 1997 to 2000 and of Screen Training Ireland from 1995 to 2000.
- In 2010, Wilson's The Door, which Flynn produced, was nominated for best live-action short at the Academy Awards.
- One of his most significant legacies may prove to be the RTÉ series Love/Hate. As well as entertaining the nation with disreputable behaviour between 2010 and 2014, the show offered early opportunities to emerging actors such as Ruth Negga, Charlie Murphy, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan. It would not be unreasonable to describe that cohort of performers as the Love/Hate Generation.
- On the TV side, he served as an executive producer on Vikings and its spinoff Valhalla, as well as the RTE and AMC+ Irish crime drama Kin, starring Charlie Cox, Aiden Gillen and Ciarán Hinds.
- He and Morgan O'Sullivan, a true veteran of Irish TV and cinema, worked together on large international television productions such as The Tudors, The Borgias and Penny Dreadful. A whole generation of Irish professionals, both in front and behind the camera, gained vital experience on those shows.
- He was not yet 30 when, in 1993, Michael D Higgins, then minister for arts, brought the Irish Film Board back into existence after a six-year hiatus. Lelia Doolan, chair of the board, was quick to recognise the young man's gifts. "He was the first person we appointed ... and we had some heady times in Galway, getting a whole new idea started," Doolan said.
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