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THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE are set to attend the funeral of Glen Hansard at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin this afternoon.

The musician and frontman of The Frames died at the age of 56 in a road crash at the Strawberry Beds in west Dublin in the early hours of the morning of 29 July.

His funeral will take place at 1.30pm.

While it is open to the public, organisers have said access inside the cathedral will be “extremely limited” due to the numbers expected. People began queueing earlier this morning to be in attendance.

The livestream can be found below.

Fans and mourners have been queueing since before 9.30am this morning to get inside St Patrick’s Cathedral for the funeral.

The Journal‘s Rónán Duffy spoke to some of those who were waiting to get in, including Clarissa Unger, a Washington DC-based longtime fan on Hansard’s music who said she was on holiday in Barcelona with her husband when she heard the news of his passing.

“We were meant to be travelling around Spain, and immediately when we found the news of when the memorial, the funeral, was going to be, we changed our flights to come here,” she said.

“I’m just a huge admirer of Glen and his music and all that he’s done. So it just it felt wrong to not be here. I just wanted to be here amongst all the other folks who are here to honour him and just appreciate all that he’s done.”

Good afternoon.

The funeral service for musician Glen Hansard is taking place in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin from 1.30pm.

We’ll be covering it live here as it happens.

If you would like to watch the service when it begins, a livestream can be found at the top of this liveblog.

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