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

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

As her daughter’s small, white coffin was carried carefully between the rising limestone walls into The Island Crematorium in Cork Harbour, Rebecca Saunders felt like things had finally come full circle.

Although Ms Saunders had not planned a second funeral for her three-year-old daughter, Clarissa, who was killed by her father in 2013, the small ceremony had that effect.