Five of the injured are still in hospital

Five of those injured in Monday's bus crash were still being treated in hospital last night

Five of those injured in Monday's bus crash were still being treated in hospital last night. Eithne Donnellan, Health Correspondent, reports.

Four of the five are second- level students who were travelling home from schools in Navan when the accident occurred.

The fifth is the driver of one of the two cars involved in the collision.

Three of those still in hospital are being treated at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, and two are being treated at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

All those hospitalised are in a stable condition.

Twenty-six casualties were brought to the Drogheda hospital and 27 to the Navan hospital after the school bus crash which claimed the lives of five teenagers.

A number of those recuperating in hospital have been visited by Minister for Health Mary Harney.

She travelled to both hospitals to meet the injured and those looking after them.

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