It was forty years ago last month that Liam Daniel, first met Tom Lynch. Daniel, the current chair of Malin Corporation, was a young audit manager in KPMG when Lynch joined the accountancy firm, then called Stokes Kennedy Crowley. Lynch joined the firm some months later than the usual entry-level graduate intake to the firm in 1980. He was completing a two-year stint as student university president of Queens’ University in Belfast, a post that delayed his start date. Lynch studied economics in Queens’ and he retained a close connection to his alma mater over the decades. “Tom was in…