Fluent in several languages, Michelle completed a Masters of Philosophy
(M.Phil) in Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), and a second degree in
Bristol.
Represented Ireland in the Miss World 1980 Pageant.
Her daughter Natasha was seriously injured in a car crash in San
Francisco in June 2004.
She has two children from her marriage to ex-Arsenal football player
John Devine - Natasha (born 1985) and Danielle. She also has a daughter
Claudia Ryan from her relationship with Ryanair tycoon Cathal Ryan. She
is also grandmother to her daughter Danielle's first-born, Alannah
(born 2002).
In January 2006 she gave birth to a daughter, Aibhe Rocca Morrison,
with her partner, Van Morrison.