‘It is hard to put into words how we feel’

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.

“I was told a girl from my class was dead but she isn’t. It’s very sad for the families of the girls who did die,” said 14-year-old Warren Bellew from Beaufort College, Navan.

With him was 16-year-old Paul Flynn.