Testing firm denies charges after fatal Offaly bus crash in which teenage boy died

A vehicle-testing firm and the partners of a bus hire company have gone on trial following a school bus crash in Offaly, in which a 15-year-old student died.

O'Reilly Commercials of Ballinalack in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, denies failing to take account of a missing bolt and a fractured chassis during an inspection of the bus.