Inquests into Kentstown deaths begins later today

Inquests into the deaths of five schoolgirls who lost their lives in the Kentstown bus crash in 2005 are due to begin at Trim Courthouse in Co Meath today.

Fifteen-year-olds Aimee McCabe, Lisa Callan and Sinead Ledwidge, 17-year-old Deirdre Scanlan and 18-year-old Claire McCluskey were killed when a Bus Eireann school bus in which they were travelling overturned on the Navan to Kentstown road.