Bus service to reduce school absenteeism under threat over funding

A pilot bus service in Co Meath, which has upped school attendance figures by 16%, is at risk of being scrapped over a lack of funding.

For the past two years, 54 second-level students have been bussed by a Local Link service from the Windtown area of Navan, which is deemed a 'severely disadvantaged area ‘under Pobal mappings from 2016.