An Alliance MLA who is quitting less than a year after being elected has launched a personal website promoting herself as a keynote speaker and executive coach.
Patricia O'Lynn announced she was stepping down as an MLA for North Antrim at the end of this month to take up a new role at Queen's University Belfast.
The new website, which includes a number of professionally taken photographs of the 33-year-old, describes her as a "gifted keynote speaker", "author", "leader" and "coach".
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It includes a quote from Alliance leader Naomi Long describing Ms O'Lynn as "passionate and fearless", while other references hail the outgoing MLA as an "incredible motivational speaker" and "frighteningly remarkable".
Alongside an image of Ms O'Lynn with her arms folded and leaning against a wall, a quote from the MLA reads: "Kill them with competence and bury them with a smile."
The website details her "political journey", from interning with US senator John McCain to joining the Alliance Party.
It describes Ms O'Lynn as "history making" after being elected last May as North Antrim's first female Assembly member, and credits her for "building a political movement in her constituency".
A page entitled "Speaking" says the MLA is a "gifted keynote speaker" with a "strong record" of delivering lectures, "motivational speeches and political addresses".
It includes various images of Ms O'Lynn speaking at events and to the media, and describes her delivery style as "gritty, magnanimous and dramatic".
Ms O'Lynn, who completed a PhD in school exclusion last year, is working on her first business called The Institute for Disruption, which aims to "enact systems change by learning from the lived experiences of marginalsied groups".
The outgoing MLA shared her website, drolynn.com, on Twitter and added a link to the main page on her social media profile.
"Coming to a website near you," she tweeted as she shared a link to the new website on Thursday.
Ms O’Lynn became North Antrim's first Alliance MLA when she was elected last May after a surge of transfers saw her unseat DUP stalwart Mervyn Storey.
Mr Storey, who has since been co-opted as a councillor, questioned Ms O'Lynn's "commitment" to the MLA role after she announced her resignation.
"Clearly, her first priority wasn't North Antrim, it seems as though her first priority was herself, but that's her choice," he told the Belfast Telegraph.
Ms O'Lynn later tweeted: "Someone please give Mervyn the hug he so desperately needs."
Naomi Long earlier this month said she was "very sad" that Ms O'Lynn was leaving but she understood the "frustration" for MLAs of not having a functioning Executive and Assembly.
The Alliance leader said that "every time the Assembly collapses, we lose good people".
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