Joe Lynam

Mike Lynch was, as you say, super intelligent, but also something of a bully.

In your book, you say that Lynch regarded himself as, quote, the smartest guy in the room with no duty of honesty to his intellectual inferiors.

Now, you alluded to this earlier on.

Some might say that we are in the middle of yet another period of major technology overvaluation.

Back in Mike Lynch's day, it was the dot-com became dot-bomb.

This time it is AI overvaluation.

What conclusions can we draw from the case of Mike Lynch, would you say?

And hopefully they'll have their toothbrushes with them.

Katie, thank you so much for joining us.

That is Katie Prescott, the technology business editor with The Times in London, author of the book, The Curious Case of Mike Lynch, The Improbable Life and Death of a Tech Billionaire.

Now, let's talk about something as we end the year.

We have a massive funds industry here in Ireland, as you may know.

And in one particular area, we found some fascinating figures in the area of exchange-traded funds.

These are the active ones.

Ireland now has a huge 94% market share as the year comes to an end, and you taught up the figures.

And joining me here in studio to ask why that is and where the industry goes from here is Pat Lardner, who's the Chief Executive of Irish Funds, and he's here with me now.

Pat, you're very welcome.

Good morning.

Thanks for having me, Emmett.

So there's different types of exchange traded funds, the passive ones and the active ones.