Cork man and his dog return home after helping to recover bodies in Ukraine

Padraig O'Keeffe with his dog Cooper, who travelled to Ukraine

A Cork man who joined the French Foreign Legion as a teenager before working as a security expert all over the world has completed a two-month search and rescue mission in Ukraine with his specially trained K9 rescue dog.

Padraig O'Keeffe, from Kiskeam, and his canine companion Cooper, spent more than 60 days searching through rubble in Ukraine in the hope of finding survivors or bodies for burial.