A young man who was convicted of manslaughter was taken from his drug addicted mother as a baby and suffered the death of both his foster parents as a child, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The owner of a school bus which crashed in Offaly six years ago, causing the death of a teenager, has received a suspended jail sentence for failing to maintain the bus.

The owner of an Offaly bus hire company has pleaded guilty to failing to maintain a school bus that was later involved in a fatal crash.