Joe Lynam is an Irish journalist working for the BBC in the United Kingdom.[1]
Lynam was born in Dublin and moved to London in 2001.[2]
Lynam is the BBC's Weekend Business Correspondent covering economic, business, company, financial and personal finance news on the main BBC One bulletins as well as BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Radio 4,[3] BBC Five Live and the BBC World Service.[4]
Lynam is also a relief business correspondent on BBC Newsnight,[5] covering for Paul Mason, and periodically presents business news on BBC News. Joe is also relief presenter on BBC Breakfast.[6]
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Before becoming a journalist, Lynam ran a chain of pubs in Germany in the 1990s and speaks fluent German.[7]
Lynam broke the story in August 2006 when a planned terror plot involving a liquid bomb on a UK plane was unearthed.[8]
Lynam is widely credited with breaking the news that Ireland was in talks with the IMF and EU to get a bailout loan in November 2010.[9] Although this was initially denied by the Irish government, it was proven to be true.
Lynam studied International Commerce at University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin.[10][11]
Joe Lynam lives in West London with his Estonian partner Riina.[12]
Lynam's father (also Joe Lynam) died in 2010. Joe senior had been RTÉ's show jumping correspondent in the 1980s.[13]
Joe's mother Christina Lynam runs a charity.[14]
In 2010, Lynam helped raise money for the Chiltern Centre for disabled children in Greys Road Henley and Power International in High Wycombe.[15]