Father of Santina Cawley stands by daughter's coffin throughout funeral Mass

The two-year-old will be laid to rest this afternoon in St Catherine's cemetery in Kilcully after the service at the North Cathedral in Cork.

The parents and siblings of a murdered toddler carried her casket from the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne to the hearse which took her to final resting place in a cemetery in Cork city today amid emotional scenes at her requiem mass.

Chief celebrant at the mass Fr Oscar O'Leary told mourners that Santina Cawley was a happy child who had a particular fondness for the Teletubbies.