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Kearneys are also bus and coach dealers so its too early to say what the plan for her is , RA 266 must now be the Ex dublin Bus vehicle to carry the most registration numbers.

The private sector are hardly getting away scot free , there is the EU mobility directive that states that all public bus services must be operated by accessable vehicles by 2016 , and after that date only accessable machines can be built.
Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus did not decide to go low floor (they were very happy with their high-floor Volvo's) , the government (the sole shareholder in CIE) TOLD them they were only to buy accessable buses from that date , which they reluctantly did while at the same time grumbling that they needed more tax-payers money to do it. (lets not forget that the state tried to block the purchase of SP 31 - 90 , and only allowed SP 91 - 120 to be aquired on the understanding that they would be wheelchair accessable)
I dont think you will find many people in the industry who would defend the Volvo B7LT over the Olympian , the B7TL has so many issues that it got itself banned from London along with the early B9LT's (there were no new Volvo deckers in London for over 3 years) and you will find that most modern deckers are designed and built with London in mind as that is the biggest market into which they will be sold.
Low Floor deckers have come a long way in a short time , but they have a long way to go before they can match an Olympian , which was a design evoloution from the Leyland Atlantean , Damiler Fleetline , Bristol VRT and Leyland Titan (B21) (Leyland ultimatly owned the engineering patents for all four designs) , by the time RH 1 was built the design of high floor double deckers had 34 years of refinment under their belt.
On a side note , the first Olympian was built by Bristol who had intended it to be a replacment for the VRT (any guesses who bodied the first one?) , but the failure of Leyland to sell the B21 Titan outside London (for whom it was designed) led to Leyland transfering the Olympian away from Bristol.

Correct , the first one had an Eastern Coachworks body which was designed specifically for the "Bristol" Olympian.