Kilkenny crash: 12 injured, including 8 children, on 'very bad stretch of road'

The collision occurred on the N77 at Ardloo near the Dinan Bridge shortly after 10.20am. Picture: Dylan Vaughan

Twelve people, including eight children, have been hospitalised following a collision involving a bus and a lorry in Co Kilkenny on Thursday.

A group of around 40 transition year students from Coláiste Phobal Roscrea in Co Tipperary were travelling to Kilkenny with their teachers in a bus when the collision took place on the N77 at Ardloo near the Dinan Bridge shortly after 10.20am.