After years of being sidelined, ignored and neglected, the Stardust relatives finally get redemption

Stardust: Survivors and family members walk from Dublin Coroner's Court to the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin after a verdict of unlawful killing was returned by the jury in the Stardust fire inquests. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA WireAnd the story of the past four decades: On February 14th, 1981, 800 young people attended a Valentine’s night disco in theBallroom in Artane. A fire started which quickly engulfed the building and plunged it into darkness.

Politics was never too much at a remove from all this. Many of the dead and injured came from working class backgrounds. The first tribunal of inquiry, set up shortly after the fire, controversially concluded the blaze had been set by arsonists. That allowed the Butterly family to be awarded £600,000 in compensation in 1983, despite its severe failure to make the building safe. The victims were sidelined, ignored and neglected.

You should take time to read this extraordinary multimedia article written by our colleague Kitty Holland “This disgusting and escalating form of intimidation cannot be normalised or facilitated any longer. I am baffled that the Garda Commissioner and the Justice Minister appear so blind to the inevitability of where their hands-off approach to these thugs is going to lead us.

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