[1][2] His father, Fionán Lynch, was a member of the First Dáil and a judge of the Circuit Court.
[4] He attended the King's Inns where he won the John Brooke Scholarship.
[1][5] In December 1984, he was appointed the sole member of the tribunal into the Kerry Babies case.
[6] He was among three judges who sat in a divisional High Court which heard an unsuccessful challenge by Des Hanafin to result of the 1995 divorce referendum.
[7] He heard the High Court hearing of Bula Ltd v Tara Mines Ltd (No 6) in 1996 which ran for 277 days.