Joe Lynam

trade representative has directly threatened European companies because of fines that might have been imposed on you guys.

OK, but the point that I'm making is America is standing up for American tech, but now America is threatening European companies.

Do you think that's fair?

Cara, thanks very much for joining us.

That's Cara O'Leary, the Country Manager with LinkedIn Ireland.

Mike Lynch used to run the chip design giant Autonomy before it was sold in 2011 to HP for almost $12 billion.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Boeing sold its first plane into Ireland 65 years ago.

It has since sold 1,400 aircraft to Irish airlines and leasing companies, making us, amazingly, the third biggest customer in the world.

HP then sued Lynch for fraudulently overstating the value of Autonomy and won in the British civil courts.

Now the Seattle-based planemaker is opening up a new European hub in Dublin Airport, possibly to get closer to its biggest single customer, Ryanair, which has been moaning about Boeing's late deliveries of aircraft for years.

Lynch was then arrested and faced trial in the US on similar charges but was fully exonerated last year.

A few weeks later, he was dead in a freak boating accident in Italy.

His life story is fascinating from an Irish point of view because both his parents were born here and now there's a superb book about him.

I spoke to Jeremy Quinn, the president of Boeing UK and Ireland, and asked him about those delays, but began by asking why they had chosen Ireland.

It's called The Curious Case of Mike Lynch, The Improbable Life and Death of a Tech Billionaire.

And its author is Katie Prescott, the technology business editor with The Times of London.

Good morning, Katie.

Good morning, Joe.

Good to talk to you.