‘After stabbing me and mum, dad kissed me ... then took his own life’

Daughter recalls tragedy at parents’ double inquest.

‘After stabbing me and mum, dad kissed me ... then took his own life’

A troubled father who stabbed his wife to death and critically injured his daughter, bent down to kiss her as she cradled her dying mother, before taking his own life.

Michael and Valerie Greaney’s eldest daughter, Michelle, recalled the horror at a double inquest yesterday into the deaths of her parents at their home in O’Neill Place, Cobh, Co Cork, on December 28, 2014.

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