[citation needed] At the height of the European debt crisis 2011–2012, 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.

[6] Lynam broke the story in August 2006 when a planned terror plot involving a liquid bomb on a UK plane was unearthed.

[7] At the key G20 crisis summit in London in April 2009, Lynam was the first broadcast journalist to reveal live on BBC News with Emily Maitlis that the total amount of money pledged to fix the financial system was going to be $1.1trillion[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.

In March 2012, Lynam broke the story that the UK Government was in serious talks with Abu Dhabi with the view to selling it a substantial stake in RBS.

[14] In 2010, Lynam helped raise money for the Chiltern Centre for disabled children in Greys Road, Henley-on-Thames, and Power International in High Wycombe.

[16] Lynam chaired a debate for the London Irish Business Society on the future of the Eurozone,[17] again benefiting Cara Malawi.