Biography...

Shane Eamonn Mark Stephen Lynch was born 3rd July 1976 in Donaghmede, Dublin. Parents; Noeleen and Brendan had always said they would call their first boy, Shane, after the cowboy film of the same name. (It was one of the first movies the couple saw together.) As it turned out, Shane was the only boy among five girls; two older sisters, Tara and Alison and three younger; twins, Keavy and Edele and the youngest, Naomi. All Shane’s sisters bar one appeared in pop groups of varying success during the 90’s; Tara was in ‘Fab!’ Naomi was in ‘Buffalo G’ and Keavy and Edele were in ‘B*Witched.’ Shane’s school years were a struggle and he has admitted to blagging his way through. Even at the age of six when he first started, he noticed he was different from the rest of the children in his class, they could read and write; he couldn’t and he didn’t know why but in his own words he had made up his mind that no one was ever going to find out. Speaking of his school days, Shane explains; ‘No one knew much about dyslexia then, it wasn’t recognised in the way it is now. I was always getting letters and numbers round the wrong way and leaving letters out of words. But rather than tell anybody I was struggling with reading and writing, I just did my best to avoid it. I did what I thought was writing and what I hoped made sense. If I was asked to read my work out loud, I’d just make up a story right there and then. I wasn’t reading what I’d written. That’s how I got by and how I managed to blag the whole thing.’ As the academic side of his school life wasn’t his strongest point, he put all is efforts into being the best he could at all sports he participated in. Irish football, high jump, long jump, sprint (all main athletic events,) basketball and swimming; he seemed to win gold medals in everything, even when all the Irish schools would come together to compete against each other, it was Shane who won all the trophies.