School-bus crash road not in need of repair — council

Cork County Council is to write to Bus Éireann to say that there are no issues with the road on which a school bus crashed in North Cork earlier this month.

Senior council engineers told councillors at a meeting of the northern division, in Mallow, that they could see no problem with the road at Cregg South, Ballyhooly, where the bus carrying 50 secondary school pupils overturned on September 14.

The accident occurred at 8.20am, as the coach, operated by a Bus Éireann sub-contractor, was bringing students to three Fermoy secondary schools — Colaiste an Chraoibhin, St Colman’s, and Loreto.