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

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.Although this was initially denied by the Irish government, it was proven to be true.