‘Our hearts are broken, but maybe our hearts needed to be broken, so they could expand’

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.

“Our hearts are broken, but maybe our hearts needed to be broken, so that they could expand,” said Nuala Creane in a tribute to her dead son which was given a standing ovation.

“Please, bring to mind a happy moment in your lives. The happier the better.