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Cody is a six year old Golden Retriever who lives a normal life like any other dog, mostly! Once a week, he puts on his Irish Therapy Dog uniform and trots through the door of the ICU in Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH), where his calming and comforting influence is felt in abundance.

Aras an Uachtarain will echo to the sound of heavy paws from next month as president-elect Michael D Higgins is to give a home to at least one and possibly two Bernese Mountain Dogs.

Sniffing under rubble and overseeing evacuations or combing events, and city streets for missing persons, it’s all in a day’s work for the furry recruits at Charity Search and Rescue who are being put through their paw paces to really be man’s best friend.

Radio presenter Valerie Hughes' homebred Bernese Mountain Dog Carraigbern Miss Alice became the only Bernese Mountain Dog in Ireland to currently hold the title of GB Champion when she won the Challenge Certificate and went Reserve Best in Show at the Northern Bernese Mountain Dog Championship Show in the UK recently.

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