School bus fire raises fleet safety fears

BUS ÉIREANN and the gardaí have launched separate investigations into a fire that destroyed a school bus in Meath yesterday.

The incident happened exactly four weeks after five schoolgirls from the county died and dozens of their schoolmates were injured when their school bus overturned in Kentstown.

No passengers were on board the bus when the blaze broke out yesterday on the road at Cushinstown, but students doing Junior Cert and Leaving Cert exams were waiting to be picked up by the vehicle.