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