Education
Lynam studied International Commerce at (University College Dublin) in Dublin.
Lynam studied International Commerce at (University College Dublin) in Dublin.
Lynam is a business correspondent. He also presents sometimes on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s flagship Today Programme – covering for Simon Jack. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the business correspondent with Newsnight".
During the height of the European debt crisis 2011-2012, Joe Lynam was business correspondent with Newsnight and travelled to Cyprus, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Ireland to cover the sense of fear in many Eurozone countries.
Between 2008–2012, Joe Lynam was the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Weekend Business Correspondent covering economic, business, company, financial and personal finance news on the main British Broadcasting Corporation One bulletins as well as British Broadcasting Corporation News, British Broadcasting Corporation World News, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, British Broadcasting Corporation Five Live and the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service. He was also relief Business Presenter on British Broadcasting Corporation News and British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast.
Before becoming a journalist, Lynam ran a chain of pubs in Germany in the 1990s and speaks fluent German. Lynam broke the story in August 2006 when a planned terror plot involving a liquid bomb on a United Kingdom plane was unearthed.
At the key G20 crisis summit in London in April 2009, Lynam was the first broadcast journalist to reveal live on British Broadcasting Corporation News with Emily Maitlis that the total amount of money pledged to fix the financial system was going to be $1.1trillion
Lynam is widely credited with breaking the news that Ireland was in talks with the International Monetary Fund and European Union to get a bailout loan in November 2010.
Although this was initially denied by the Irish government, it was proven to be true. In March 2012, Lynam broke the story that the United Kingdom Government was in serious talks with Abu Dhabi with the view to selling it a substantial stake in RBS. This story led to a RBS share prices jumping 5% the following day
In September 2012, Lynam broadcast a report on Newsnight about alleged mis-selling by several United Kingdom based investment banks in Italy and how the United Kingdom regulator, the Federal Security Agency, was made aware of it but failed to acting Joe Lynam"s second son was born in the front seat of his car on the way to the hospital.
He admitted that he "broke every red light" in an effort to get Estonian girlfriend Riina Luik to hospital in time.
But he was not fast enough – and the little boy Seán was born in his Vauxhall Astra estate on 21 June 2013. The story was widely covered in many media outlets including the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and the British Broadcasting Corporation"s in house magazine Ariel.