'We are devastated': Dog gives life to save owner from house blaze in Louth

A rescue dog has been credited with saving the life of a woman whose home went on fire in the early hours of St Valentine’s Day.

Alisha McKevitt said that if she had not been woken by Rosie, she would not have survived. She and her two other dogs escaped before the blaze gutted the building, leaving her and her husband, Paddy, homeless.

They have been given a temporary home, and “absolutely amazing” support, by their community in Omeath, in Co Louth. Alisha said: “I think, by waking me, that Rosie did save my life, because it was literally seconds I had to get out.”