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Anniversary Mass for Meath bus victims
A memorial Mass to mark the first anniversary of the Meath bus crash in which five schoolgirls were killed will be held in Navan tonight, writes Olivia Kelly.
The five teenagers died and dozens of others were injured when the Bus Éireann school bus crashed at Kentstown, Co Meath, a year ago today.
The Bishop of Meath, Dr Michael Smith, will celebrate the Mass at the Church of the Assumption, Beauparc, Co Meath, at 7.30pm, before blessing a memorial garden beside the church in remembrance of those who died.
Family and friends last night attended Mass at St Mary's church in Navan organised by St Michael's Loreto Convent in Navan.
The school bus, which overturned just two miles outside Navan, had not been fitted with seatbelts.
Bus Éireann said yesterday that all school buses would be fitted with seatbelts by September, three months ahead of the schedule given by Minister for Education Mary Hanafin last July.
The fitting of seatbelts to the 650 buses in the school bus fleet began last February and, according to a Bus Éireann spokeswoman, was now one-third complete.
"The retrofitting of the fleet is being done outside school hours, but with the school term now coming to an end we will be able to speed up the implementation to have all buses fitted by September."
Talks take place on Fás dispute
Talks were taking place at the Labour Relations Commission last night to try to resolve the dispute at Fás over decentralisation.
Siptu members employed by Fás have been engaged in industrial action over the policy of confining head-office promotions to staff willing to relocate to its proposed new headquarters in Birr. The training and jobs agency is due to move to the Co Offaly town in 2009 under the decentralisation plan.
A full-day stoppage by Fás head-office staff is due to take place today, while Siptu members also plan to protest tomorrow at the office of Minister of State for Finance Tom Parlon.
Flights delayed at Dublin airport
Several flights were delayed from Dublin airport yesterday due to an unexpected fuel supply shortage at the airport according to Dublin Airport Authority. A spokeswoman for the authority said difficulties arose in Dublin Port from where fuel was being transported to the airport.
Increased demand for fuel in the airport over the weekend and the subsequent underestimation of fuel requirements for yesterday's operations contributed to flight delays with several airlines.
Date for appeal in O'Donoghue case
An appeal by the DPP against the alleged leniency of the four-year prison term handed down to Wayne O'Donoghue for killing his 11-year-old neighbour will be heard next July, the Court of Criminal Appeal decided yesterday.
The review of the sentence given to O'Donoghue (21) for killing Robert Holohan will proceed on July 13th. It will be heard by the three-judge appeal court.
Circus plays down tyre incident
A circus group last night dismissed suggestions from the Captive Animals Protection Society that its animals should be immediately impounded by the Department of Agriculture. Nuala Donlon, a spokeswoman for the society, made the call following an incident in which a tyre blew out on a Circus Vegas vehicle on the M50 while transporting elephants.
However, a Circus Vegas spokeswoman said the incident was of "very minor" significance, and neither road users nor elephants had been endangered.