- published: 30 Nov 2015
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Shane Lynch (born Shane Eamon Mark Stephen Lynch; 3 July 1976) is an Irish singer-songwriter, actor and professional drift driver, best known as a member of Boyzone. In recent years he has taken up auto racing, participated in reality shows, and appeared as a judge on The All Ireland Talent Show.
Born to Brendan and Noeleen Lynch, a mechanic and housewife, respectively and raised in Donaghmede, North-east Dublin, Lynch struggled with his education during his school years due to dyslexia, but excelled at sports and was a motor racing enthusiast, winning the Portuguese BMX Championship at fourteen. It was around this period he was expelled from school and began to work with his father as a mechanic.
In 1993, music manager Louis Walsh, who had managed Johnny Logan, held auditions in Dublin to find a new boyband to rival British group Take That. Lynch was among the hopefuls present, and was eventually selected. Before even recording any material, he and five other successful auditionees made their infamous appearance on RTÉ's The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne. Although their performance was criticised by the Irish press, the band became one of the most successful pop bands in Ireland.
Actors: Jane Robinson (costume designer), Kevin Spacey (actor), Michael André (producer), Christoph Waltz (actor), Patrick Malahide (actor), Rod Stoneman (producer), Peter Mullan (actor), Gerard McSorley (actor), David Hayman (actor), Colin Farrell (actor), Stephen Dillane (actor), David Kelly (actor), Herbert Knaup (actor), Steve Morphew (miscellaneous crew), Brendan Gunn (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders. When not playing happy families with his two wives - sisters Christine and Lisa - and his children, Lynch is busy plotting elaborate heists, thinking as much about the showmanship of it all as he is the loot involved. On his case is Garda Noel Quigley, his determination to convict Lynch slowly turning into an obsession. Inevitably, a showdown looms.
Keywords: art-forgery, art-theft, automatic-weapon, bank-robbery, bigamy, caper, car-chase, career-criminal, coercion, coffin