Three weeks ago, Una stroked Louie’s soft, tired head in her lap for the last time and said her goodbyes.
A photo of the Labrador, his face lit up with candles, sits on a corner table next to a box with his ashes in her sitting room in Shannon, Co Clare.
Emotional mum-of-two Una Murphy said: “It’s so lovely to have my baby Louie home. I still say ‘Goodnight Louie’ every night.”