AN Irish Examiner investigation into prescribing patterns of tranquilising and stimulant drugs shows that pharmaceuticals to help anxiety and depression are being dished out in alarming numbers.

THE mother of young man who carried out a murder-suicide has called on Irish psychiatry to “face-up” to the evidence that antidepressants can have dangerous side effects.

A jury has returned an open verdict into the death of Shane Clancy, who fatally stabbed a man in Co Wicklow before turning the knife on himself.

MOURNERS at the funeral Mass for Bray student Sebastian Creane were asked to give thought to the 22-year-old art and design student’s broken-hearted girlfriend, Jennifer Hannigan, who blamed herself for the boy’s death.

A promising young student stabbed to death by a jealous love rival was remarkably similar in so many ways to his killer, his funeral Mass heard today.

EVERY year there’s a knife attack so shocking it disturbs our collective psyche and knocks our sense of the world off kilter.

THE father of Shane Clancy has said his pacifist son was “not in his right mind” when he stabbed Sebastian Creane to death and seriously wounded Sebastian’s brother and his own former girlfriend.

SHANE CLANCY was finally laid to rest yesterday, with mourners at his funeral told of the “cruel darkness” which led to his tragic death and that of Sebastian Creane last weekend.

The only suspect in a horrific murder-suicide that left two people dead had become overwhelmed by darkness, mourners at his funeral Mass heard today.

The 22-year-old student at the centre of last weekend's murder-suicide in Bray is due to be laid to rest later today.

Gardaí have reportedly established that the knife used to kill Sebastian Creane in Bray at the weekend was bought by Shane Clancy just an hour before the stabbing.

GARDAÍ suspect the young man who murdered Sebastian Creane before killing himself brought two knives to Mr Creane’s house before the attack.

COMPOSER and singer Phil Coulter paid a moving tribute to Sebastian Creane yesterday, describing him as a man “any father would be delighted to have as a son.”

GARDAÍ suspect that romantic jealousy may have sparked a tragic murder-suicide among of group of young people in Co Wicklow.

A horrific murder/suicide that left two people dead and two others seriously injured may have been sparked by jealousy over a woman, it emerged tonight.