THE stakes for high net-worth dogs continues to rise.

DR CROKES star Ambrose O’Donovan has described how he was back playing competitive football less than four weeks after badly damaging his back in a car crash.

An American mother and daughter rushed to hospital in Moscow for suspected thallium poisoning arrived home today as colleagues and relatives struggled to understand how they could have been exposed to the potentially fatal chemical.

DUBLINER Thomas Staunton was crowned the new Mr Ireland last night at the Irish Body Builders championship in Limerick.