A new date in May has been set at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the trial two companies accused of health and safety offences arising from the investigation into the fatal Navan school bus crash in May 2005.

Junior Minister for Education Sean Haughey today branded as shocking that three-quarters of post-primary pupils are not wearing seatbelts on school buses.

LIMERICK and Clare county councils have been criticised for mounting legal challenges against notices issued by the Health and Safety Authority directing them to improve their work standards.

THE Government must end its piecemeal approach to school transport and make it the responsibility of a single department, parents have warned.