Father: ‘Shane was a pacifist and couldn’t have lived with what he had done’

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.

Patrick Clancy said he was also upset with comments from a Jesuit priest friend of the Creanes who claimed during last week that no amount of “psychobabble” could cover the brutal nature of Shane’s attack.

Shane, a teetotal 22-year-old student of theology and Irish at Trinity College, stabbed Sebastian Creane to death and seriously wounded his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Hannigan and Sebastian’s brother Dylan during anattack in the early hours of August 16 at a house in Cuala Grove in Bray.