Meath County Council has pleaded guilty to two charges arising from the school bus crash near Navan that killed five school girls in May 2005.
At Trim circuit court today its director of services for infrastructure, Eugene Cummins, pleaded guilty on behalf of the local authority for failing to appoint a project supervisor to a roadworks project and for failing to draw up a health and safety plan for the same project.
The case against the council and the other defendants Bus Éireann, Irish Bus and Keltank Limited has been adjourned until the sittings of the court next January.
Aimee McCabe (15), Claire McCluskey (18), Deirdre Scanlon (17), Lisa Callan (15) and Sinead Ledwidge (15) died, and 46 other students were injured when the Bus Éireann school bus skidded and toppled over at Kentstown, Co Meath.