Hundreds of people gathered this afternoon in Killarney to pay their last respects Miriam Burns, whose body was found with multiple injuries in her home on Monday.
A murder investigation was launched by gardaí after the body of the 75-year-old grandmother was found with multiple injuries in her home at Ardshanavooly last Monday.
Mrs Burns' remains were received into St Mary's Cathedral by Parish Priest Fr Kieran O'Brien this afternoon.
Ms Burns' daughter Sharon said her mother was 'the beautiful, smiling lady on the bike", adding that she was "indeed glamourous and beautiful", but she was also "so much more".
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"She was a strong, powerful force of nature, who was great craic, who could give you what for, when the situation required it. She was very very clever," her daughter said.
Describing her mother as a "lioness", she said they had won the lottery when they got her for a parent.
Fr O'Brien said the silence that had hung over the town for the last week spoke for itself.
"On this fine summer's day, we think of the sunshine she brought into people's lives," he said.
"Her star shone bright and she has brightened up so many lives by her presence, in her actions and by her words."
For more than two hours, people queued in the afternoon sunshine to pay their last respects to Ms Burns and to console her family.
At the request of Ms Burns' family, a brief prayer service took place, before her remains were brought to Cork for a private cremation service tomorrow.
