Stardust inquests: Woman recalls holding friend’s shoulders to keep from falling and being trampled

Gardaí stand outside the main entrance of a fire-blackened Stardust disco in Artane, Dublin on April 14th, 1981. Photograph: Tony Harris/PA Wire

Christine Carr, 16 at the time of the disaster, described holding the shoulders of a tall friend to keep herself off the ground and from being trampled in a crush in the foyer as they attempted to escape. She looked back at the main exit and black smoke was billowing out. Asked if there were many people around her, she said: “I don’t remember because I had become disconnected. I was walking around. I wasn’t screaming. I wasn’t crying.”

He went around the front to the main exit to look for his brother, and heard he was out. He went back to exits 4 and 5, he continued, and looked inside. A number of witnesses described the last times they saw Robert Kelly from Coolock and Marie Kennedy from Kilbarrack, friends who died. Ms Carr, describing Marie as her “best friend”, said she last saw her around 12.30am. “I went looking for her then because I couldn’t see her. I couldn’t find her but it was no big deal because we would have met at the table because we were going home together.”

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