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Thu 08 Aug 2003Flynn gets calls from 'lots of publishers' to write memoirsFormer EU Commissioner Mr Pádraig Flynn has received a number of offers from publishers to write his political memoirs. Mr Flynn, who dismissed newspaper reports that he was considering a return to local politics by standing for the council seat his TD daughter, Ms Beverley Flynn, will relinquish, said last night he had received calls from "lots of publishers".He has not yet written what could prove to be a sensational autobiography but said: "I haven't put it out of my mind."