A lorry driver was killed when his out-of-control milk tanker ploughed into three houses, narrowly missing several people including a mother and her sleeping teenage son, emergency services said today.

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.

A GROUP of council workers, who were surfacing the road only yards from the crash, were first on the scene.

A school bus which had travelled the quiet country road thousands of times lay shattered on its side tonight.

A woman in her 50s has been killed after being by a truck in Co Meath.