Emergency services remain at the scene of a bus fire on the M7 in Co Laois.<\/p>\n
The motorway was brought to a standstill this morning after the coach carrying around 20 students caught fire shortly after 8am.<\/p>\n
It happened on the Dublin-bound carriageway between the Roscrea and Borris-in-Ossory junctions.<\/p>\n
The teenagers were brought to safety to the hard shoulder of the motorway and have since been escorted from the scene.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed say no passengers were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
Both sides of the M7 were closed to traffic as firefighters brought the blaze under control and diversions were put in place.<\/p>\n
The motorway has since opened to traffic.<\/p>\n
One lane of the carriageway, where the bus caught fire, remains closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services remain at the scene of a bus fire on the M7 in Co Laois. The motorway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-425137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}