Boy, 3, savaged by pet husky

Armed with a shovel, a Limerick man wrestled a toddler from the jaws of a pet husky, saving the child from certain death.

Reece O’Leary, who will turn three this month, was said to be out of danger at Cork University Hospital last night, where he is being treated for savage bite wounds.

He and mum Mags O’Leary were in the back garden of the family home in Yeats Avenue, Carew Park, on Tuesday when the husky owned by Mags’s partner, Ernest Walsh, turned on the child.