Shannon Murray (born 1976 in Dublin, Ireland) is an actress, writer, broadcaster, disability activist and lawyer. She is the daughter of Frank Murray who was the manager of The Pogues and Thin Lizzy.[1] Murray was left paralysed from the waist down after a diving accident when she was 14 years old. She then went on to win the first ever search for a disabled model and was the first disabled model to feature in a high-profile advertising campaign for the British store Debenhams