O’Reilly Commercials health and safety conviction upheld

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O’Reilly Commercials Limited had its health and safety conviction upheld by the Court of Appeal on 3 October 2018. The conviction concerned an official test of a school bus linked to a fatal crash near Clara, Co Offaly, on 4 April 2006. A jury found the firm guilty of failing to note the bus’s modified rear suspension during testing between 5 and 6 August 2005.

The court dismissed the company’s appeal after rejecting its seven complaints and held that the trial was satisfactory and the verdict safe. The firm had been fined €25,000 in 2013; verdicts of not guilty were returned on three other counts.