How the Buttevant rail disaster changed lives forever

The Buttevant rail crash was the worst Irish rail disaster in modern times.

A major emergency plan was put into operation minutes after a passenger train travelling from Dublin to Cork crashed at Buttevant Railway Station at lunchtime on August 1, 1980.

The worst Irish rail disaster in modern times claimed 18 lives, injured nearly 70 others, and resulted in heroic responses from public and voluntary services.