Funeral of student fatally stabbed in Bray set for Monday

THE FUNERAL of Sebastian Creane (22), the design student from Bray, Co Wicklow, who was stabbed to death at his family home last Sunday, will take place on Monday.

The service will be held at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Bray, at 10am, before proceeding to St Muredach’s Cathedral, Ballina, Co Mayo, for prayers at 3.30pm, followed by burial in Leigue Cemetery, Ballina.

A removal service will be held tomorrow at 4.30pm at Church of the Most Holy Redeemer.

There was widespread shock at his death among his fellow students at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology where he was about to enter his fourth year of a degree programme in visual communications. College president Jim Devine offered his sympathy to the Creane family and also to Sebastian’s girlfriend, Jennifer Hannigan, from Killiney, Dublin, who was injured, and to her family on the institute’s website.

The funeral of the young Dublin man Shane Clancy, who carried out the fatal stabbing attack at Cuala Grove, Bray, which left Ms Hannigan and Sebastian’s brother Dylan, with serious injuries, was held earlier this week.

After carrying out the stabbings in the early hours of last Sunday, Mr Clancy went to the back garden of the Creane house, where his body later found. He had been stabbed in the chest and a knife was found with the body. Gardaí are not seeking anybody else in relation to Mr Clancy’s death.

Gardaí believe Mr Clancy murdered Mr Creane because Mr Creane had begun seeing Mr Clancy’s former girlfriend, Ms Hannigan.

Despite being in the same group socialising on Saturday night, Sebastian Creane and Mr Clancy were not friends. Mr Creane had gone out with two friends, all former students at St Gerard’s in Bray, to a pub in Sandycove.