Man who stabbed himself brought something ‘powerful and great’ to family, funeral hears

A PRIEST yesterday told the funeral of a 26-year-old who stabbed a garda before killing himself in the north Cork town of Fermoy that the officer and his wife had already made contact with the young man’s family to offer their condolences.

Trevor Clancy stabbed Sergeant John Liston in the abdomen last Sunday as he and another officer tried to get the young man to hand over two knives he was carrying.

Tragically just minutes later, despite pleas from his parents, Eamonn and Bernadette, who rushed to the scene 200 yards from their pub, Mr Clancy forced the two knives into himself.