This is the gaping wound six-year-old Limerick girl Abbie Cuddihy suffered when she was attacked by a large dog while out playing.

Sports governing bodies from Japan and Australia are under fire after complaints that male Olympic athletes flew business class to the London Games, while the women sat in the cheap seats.

THE Beijing Bureau (Aquatic Division) have been moaning about their 6.30am start to watch fit young women training in the superb swimming complex.