Personal Life
Lynch's sisters, twins Keavy and Edele Lynch, found fame as members of the girl group B*Witched, which became the first group to replace members of their own family at number one in the charts. Younger sister, Naomi, was part of the duo Buffalo G, who achieved a top 20 hit, and another sibling, Tara, was a member of FAB!
On 8 March 1998, Lynch married Easther Bennett, lead singer of Eternal, but they separated in July 2000. Lynch and singer Sheena White were married in Ireland on 22 August 2007, and on 25 October 2008, White gave birth to their daughter Billie Rae.
Lynch, who had been involved with clairvoyants and ouija boards and claimed to have been frequently visited by evil spirits who tortured his mind in his teenage years, became a Christian in 2003; he was persuaded to convert by close friend Ben Ofoedu, who was his colleague in the band REDhill which Lynch joined after Boyzone. Of his bandmate Stephen Gately who died in 2009, Lynch, who was a pallbearer at Gately's funeral, has said: "I've got faith and respect for God - God doesn't make mistakes. So therefore, I've got to understand that it's all for a reason. If I don't understand why then one day I'll be told - but not right now... life doesn't stand still for nobody."
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