The local community has quietly supported the families of the Navan bus crash victims over the last year, the Bishop of Meath said tonight.

Bus Eireann was today charged with owning a defective vehicle during the Navan bus crash.

BUS ÉIREANN will face charges as a result of the fatal Navan bus crash which claimed the lives of five schoolgirls in Co Meath earlier this year.

Bus Éireann has deferred publication of an independent report it commissioned on the fatal Navan bus accident that claimed the lives of five young schoolgirls last May.

THE first report into last May’s tragic Co Meath bus crash, in which five young schoolgirls lost their lives, will not be published on the instruction of the Director of Public Prosecution.

THE driver of a bus that crashed in Navan, killing five schoolgirls, has told investigators the rear of the vehicle skidded as he braked approaching roadworks, according to reports.

John Breslin

Neighbours were today paying their respects at the family homes of the five young girls killed in the worst school vehicle crash in Irish history.

A number of children were feared dead tonight after a school bus overturned in Meath, gardaí said.

A number of children are reported to have been injured in an accident involving a schoolbus in Co Meath.