Leaving Certificate students in the town where the worst school bus crash in Irish history occurred last month sat a specially modified exam today.

Four of the five teenage schoolgirls killed in Monday's school bus tragedy in Co Meath are due to be laid to rest later today.

Fitting seatbelts on all school buses by September is impossible, Education Minister Mary Hanafin said today.

AT the church in the centre of Navan town, the young visitors had to wait their turn for a flame to die before they could find a space to stand their lighted candles.

Flags at Loreto Convent flew at halfmast today as teachers attempted to console devastated pupils streaming into the school.

Gardaí were today preparing to interview the driver of a bus which was involved in the worst school vehicle crash in Irish history.

FOUR of the five teenage girls who were killed in yesterday’s horror bus crash were pupils at the Loreto Convent in Navan.

AS dusk fell, an uneasy silence was restored with the departure of the emergency helicopters. Students who had not been on the bus began to drift towards the place where their friends had died.

Relatives of the survivors of the Meath bus crash have expressed sorrow for the victims of the tragedy tonight.

Five teenage girls were killed today and forty-six people injured when a school bus overturned in an horrific crash.