Cathriona White was ‘A small town girl with big dreams’

The family of Cathriona White, whose body was found last month in her California home, shortly after splitting from her boyfriend — Hollywood movie star Jim Carrey — praised her as “a small town girl with big dreams” who was “not afraid to follow them”.

“She followed them all the way to LA, and you could not get any bigger than that,” Tadhg White, a young relative, told mourners at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Cappawhite.

The South Tipperary village came to a standstill when neighbours and friends said their final goodbyes to one of their own.