Pet makes waves for owner after lucky escape

When you work at the coal-face of radio journalism, you expect to go on your honeymoon and avoid the news but instead your dog ends up making it.

Deirdre O’Shaugnessy, editor of Cork 96FM’s Opinion Line, was in Florence, Italy, when word got through that her dog Vimes had gone on a death-defying adventure in her absence.

Vimes was staying with her parents and was taken for a walk near Kilkee, Co Clare, when it wandered off and got a bit too close to a 90m cliff.