Career
He spent his youth in Toomevara, Company Tipperary. His biggest success was the 1956 100 km Cooper Cup race in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Lynch spent a number of years working as a clerk in Dublin.
During this time he met writers Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh and wrote his first newspaper features.
In 1961, he emigrated to London, where he became a disciple of the pacifist philosopher, Bertrand Russell and was imprisoned in Brixton for his Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activities. After ten years working in a bank, a succession of part-time jobs enabled him to satisfy his longtime ambitions to go motor racing.
His articles on motor racing for the Fulham Chronicle and Kensington Post led to features in Autosport and Motoring News and international journals such as Autosprint (Bologna) and Autosport (Canada). Within a short while, he became Grand Prix correspondent for Irish media and also the London-based Daily Mail and The Observer.
Lynch traveled extensively in Europe and Asia before returning to Dublin in 1985 to concentrate on feature writing and books
He has written general features for many media outlets, including The Irish Times, Sunday Tribune, The Times and The European.
