Families who lost loved ones in the Stardust nightclub fire are to reveal what they believe caused the blaze when they mark the 33rd anniversary of the disaster next week.

A group lobbying for a new inquiry into the Stardust fire will today publish for the first time sections of a draft report they claim supports their request.

A wreath will be laid at the Stardust Memorial Park in Dublin today in honour of the victims of the 1981 nightclub fire in Artane.

FAMILIES of the Stardust victims yesterday lodged a complaint with the Irish Human Rights Commission over their “degrading” treatment by the state.

Families of the victims of the Stardust tragedy will hold a candlelight vigil at the site of the St Valentine’s Day blaze today.

The families of the Stardust victims have welcomed a government move to change the public record in relation to the cause of the fatal fire almost 28 years ago.

GERTRUDE Barrett popped into Arnott’s on the way to Government Buildings yesterday to pick up two pairs of extra-thick ski socks in the sale.

A report on whether a fresh inquiry should be opened into the Stardust disaster will be published today.

Stardust victims and families are planning a second day of protest at Government Buildings this afternoon.

FOUR women who lost loved ones in the Stardust disaster last night vowed to step up their campaign for justice after staging a sit-in at Government Buildings.

Representatives of the Stardust Victims Committee were refusing to abandon their protest at Government Buildings this evening, as they insisted on being given a copy of a new report into the tragedy.

FAMILIES of victims of the Stardust nightclub fire have reacted with fury after discovering the Government has been sitting on the latest report on the disaster for weeks without being informing.

The heartbroken families of 48 young people who perished in a nightclub fire tonight said the first day of an independent hearing in to the blaze brought back a lot of bad memories.

Campaigners for a new inquiry in to the Stardust disaster said today they had the “strongest case possible” in their quest for justice.

Independent TD Finian McGrath says he expects the Government to appoint a new independent investigator for the second Stardust inquiry in the coming days.

The Taoiseach is being called on to confirm that a new examiner is being appointed to review evidence into the Stardust fire.

THE first round of hearings in the Stardust independent examination will take place next month when bereaved families are called to make representations.

ANYONE with information relating to the 1981 Stardust tragedy has been asked to make a submission to the newly established independent examination.

Families of the Stardust tragedy victims insisted today they are being kept in the dark by the Government about delays to an independent inquiry.

Relatives of the victims of the 1981 Stardust tragedy have mounted a protest outside Government Buildings in Dublin this morning.

One of the leading barristers in the State is to re-examine files on the Stardust tragedy, the Government announced this morning.

The Stardust Victims Committee is reportedly threatening to picket the Taoiseach's constituency office over his failure to appoint a legal expert to examine the case for a new inquiry into the 1981 disaster.

A woman who lost two sisters in the 1981 Stardust fire has announced her intention to run for the Dáil in the next general election.

The Stardust Victims Committee is renewing an appeal for the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to mount an independent inquiry into the 1981 disaster.

The Government has agreed to examine the possibility of setting up an inquiry into the Stardust disaster that claimed the lives of 48 young people in 1981.

The Government has reportedly agreed to appoint an independent investigator to decide if a new inquiry should be held into the 1981 Stardust disaster in Dublin.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has confirmed that the five bodies of the unidentified Stardust victims will be exhumed and formally identified.

The group representing people affected by the 1981 Stardust disaster is reportedly threatening to take the Government before the European courts.

Survivors of the Stardust disaster have welcomed the news that the Government will consider carrying out DNA tests on the five remaining unidentified victims of the fire.

RELATIVES of people who died in the Stardust inferno have stalled an attempt to open a pub on the site of the doomed nightclub.

A petition objecting to the reopening of a pub on the site were 48 young died in a fire was today handed to Dublin District Court.

FAMILIES who lost loved ones in the Stardust disaster are stepping up efforts to raise funds to take their fight for a fresh examination of the tragedy to the courts.

The Stardust Victims Committee, which represents the families of the 48 people killed on St Valentine’s night, 1981, is determined to discover the truth behind the tragedy.