Navan remembers bus crash victims as students collect their results

Jim Morahan, Navan

Mostly, they came in twos and threes, up the sweeping tree-lined avenue and past manicured lawns towards St Michael's Loreto Secondary School. Others walked by themselves, absorbed in thought.

Last May the Co Meath town became the epicentre of national heartache when a school bus crash snatched life from five local teenage students. Now, less than three months on, the heartache is still strong and tears continue to be shed.