Baker Shane Murray at Stephens Green Dublin when TV3 launched its second series of the hugely successful The Great Irish Bake Off. The highly anticipated new series will be returning to Irish screens on Wednesday 21st May at 9pm on TV3, with 12 new passionate home bakers looking to test their skills to the limit as they battle it out to be crowned The Great Irish Bake Off's Best Amateur Baker 2014.

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Shane Murray



AGE: 27

OCCUPATION: Masters Student in Creative Digital Media & full time waiter

LOCATION: Living in Liberties (grew up in Lusk, Dublin)

NATIONALITY: Irish

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single

SIGNATURE BAKE: Celebration Trifle



Growing up Shane loved to bake and these days if asked to a dinner party, he always bakes something to bring along. He began to get such a good reputation in his social circle for baking, that it was mainly his friends who suggested he entered The Great Irish Bake Off and pushed him to apply. Creativity runs in Shane’s family as his mum, Liz, is an interior designer and his dad, Andrew, designs and makes furniture. His dad is now retired but mainly worked with pine furniture making one of a kind bespoke pieces.



Shane has been baking since he was five and loves the satisfaction of presenting something to his family and friends and them enjoying what he baked. He likes challenging himself with new recipes and new things he has never baked before and has piles of baking and cookery books at home. As an avid traveller, Shane’s mind has been opened to all sorts of flavours, and he has been inspired by this. In particular he loves to cook Asian inspired food. He is still working on yeast and trying to get his bread less dense. He wants to become an expert in bread, and as such watches YouTube videos on bread making constantly.