The owner of an Offaly bus hire company has pleaded guilty to failing to maintain a school bus that was later involved in a fatal crash.
Other charges including an allegation that the owner's failure had caused the death of 15-year-old school boy Michael White have been dropped by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The bus crashed on a bog road just outside Clara in Co. Offaly on April 4th 2006 when the back axle came away and the bus flipped over.
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A sentencing date has yet to be set.
The trial continues in relation to O'Reilly Commercials Limited of Ballinalack, Mullingar in Co. Westmeath.
They are facing 4 charges relating to failing to note or verify defects when they tested the bus in August 2005.
