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<p> Rebecca Saunders is the mother of the late Clarissa McCarthy whose body was exhumed this week and cremated at Little Island, Cork. Rebecca is bringing back her daughter's ashes to Houston, Texas where she lives. Picture Dan Linehan</p>

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Rebecca Saunders: ‘I feel like I can move mountains because I can take Clarissa home’

Clarissa was drowned by her father Martin McCarthy, 50, who then took his own life, on Audley Cove, a beach below their home in West Cork in a tragic murder-suicide

<p> Rebecca Saunders is the mother of the late Clarissa McCarthy whose body was exhumed this week and cremated in Cork. Rebecca is bringing back her daughter's ashes to Houston, Texas where she lives. Picture: Dan Linehan</p>

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Watch: Rebecca Saunders tells the story of her daughter Clarissa and the fight to take her home

<p>Clarissa McCarthy was drowned by her father who then killed himself in West Cork.</p>

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Clarissa McCarthy’s remains exhumed from grave in West Cork

Clarissa’s Cause: Mother gets permission to exhume remains of her daughter drowned by father

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Clarissa’s Cause: Mother gets permission to exhume remains of her daughter drowned by father

Clarissa's Cause: Mum's campaign to exhume daughter takes step forward

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Clarissa's Cause: Mum's campaign to exhume daughter takes step forward

Clarissa - A Life Stolen podcast: The West Cork fairytale that ended in a nightmare

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Clarissa - A Life Stolen podcast: The West Cork fairytale that ended in a nightmare

Clarissa: A life stolen

S Clarissa: A life stolen

In 2013, Rebecca Saunders' husband Martin drowned their 3 year old little girl and then himself. In a haze of grief, she allowed Clarissa to be buried in Martin’s arms in a lonely West Cork graveyard. Eight years after her daughter’s tragic death, Rebecca tells their story.

Fri, 26 Mar, 2021