Shannon was educated at Ballywalter Primary School and Coleraine Academical Institution.
Smithsonian Institution | Brookings Institution | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Hoover Institution | Edinburgh Academical Football Club | Institution of Civil Engineers | Hwa Chong Institution | Chautauqua Institution | Institution of Mechanical Engineers | Federal Correctional Institution | Royal Institution | Carnegie Institution for Science | Royal Belfast Academical Institution | Victoria Institution | Raffles Institution | Hamilton Academical F.C. | Coleraine | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Royal National Lifeboat Institution | State Correctional Institution – Pittsburgh | Smithsonian Institution Building | National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation | Liverpool Collegiate Institution | financial institution | Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin | Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop | Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland | British Institution | St Michael's Institution | Saint Joseph's Institution |
In 2012-13 the top eight seeded teams were Ballymena Academy, Campbell College, Coleraine Academical Institution, Methodist College Belfast, Regent House, Newtownards, Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Sullivan Upper School and Wallace High School.
He attended Dunseverick Primary School and Coleraine Academical Institution, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, before moving to England to study English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.