After 10 years as an MLA for Fermanagh South Tyrone, Sean Lynch has stepped away from frontline politics.
Elected in May, 2011, the ex-IRA volunteer turned Sinn Féin politician had his final engagement in Stormont on Wednesday.
Having been sent to prison for 25 years in 1986, Mr. Lynch was released 12 years later in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA).
He said that the move from an armed struggle to a political one was something discussed during those days in Long Kesh, and when he was freed he became involved with Sinn Féin, first as a constituency manager and then as a MLA.