TRIBUTES HAVE been paid to Sebastian Creane who was fatally stabbed to death in the tragedy which also resulted in the death of his attacker and left two other people seriously injured.
Mr Creane (22), who died in the kitchen of his family home in Cuala Grove, Bray, on Sunday morning, was a keen photographer who was to enter the fourth year of a degree programme in Visual Communications in Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology next month.
“I like to take photos, design and boogie at the appropriate level,” he said on his Flickr photo website.
In a statement on the institute’s website, college president Jim Devine offered his sympathy to Mr Creane’s family.
“Our thoughts are with his family as they come to terms with their loss and with the unimaginable events that led to his death yesterday.”
Mr Devine also extended his sympathy to Mr Creane’s girlfriend, Jennifer Hannigan, and her family as she recovers from her injuries. She received a single stab wound to the back.
Ms Hannigan is also preparing for her final year in the visual communications programme. “We wish her well in her recovery,” Mr Devine said.
The Dún Laoghaire institute’s students’ union also offered its deepest sympathy and said counselling services were available on request to those students who wishes to avail of them at this time.
Mr Creane was a former pupil at St Gerard’s school in Bray.
Its headmaster, Tom Geraghty, offered his sympathies to the family. “At this time we at St Gerard’s school and the whole school community both past and present wish to commiserate with the family and friends of Sebastian Creane on their tragic and untimely loss,” the statement read.
“The staff of the school remember Sebastian as a hard-working, conscientious and diligent pupil who was consistently popular with both pupils and teachers of the class of 2005.
“Sebastian was always a perfect gentleman who cheerfully and willingly gave of his best in all school activities.”
Mr Creane played Gaelic football with the Bray Emmetts club up to minor level.
Club chairman Gerry Murphy extended the club’s sympathies to the Creane family on their “tragic loss”.
Mr Creane was killed by Shane Clancy (22) whose body was later found in the back garden of the Creane family home.
Mr Clancy was a fourth year student in Trinity College Dublin.
A statement from the university expressed sympathy with all the families involved in Sunday’s tragedy.
His removal and funeral will take place on Thursday to the Church of the Assumption in Dalkey at 10am.
A funeral notice described him as the beloved son of Leonie and Patrick, and stepson of Tony.
He has four brothers, Liam, Jake, Jack, Henry, and two sisters Lucy and Holly.
Mr Creane’s older brother Dylan (28) was recovering in hospital yesterday. His girlfriend, Laura Mackey, was the only person in the house at the time who was uninjured during the knife attack by Mr Clancy which was described by gardaí as “frenzied”.
She is a guitarist with up-and-coming Dublin band Boss Volenti.
They played at last year’s Electric Picnic. No one from the band was available for comment.