A CONFIDENTIAL meeting between Stardust victims’ families and the recently established legal team overseeing an external examination of the 1981 fire tragedy took place yesterday.

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.

THE legal framework for an independent examination into the 1981 Stardust fire tragedy that killed 48 people has been finalised 12 months after it was first announced.

The funeral of a man involved in the murder of a top loyalist in the North was delayed today after relatives asked for a second post mortem examination to be carried out.

The preliminary hearing into the death of student Brian Murphy outside the Burlington hotel almost seven years ago takes place at the Dublin City Coroners Court this morning.

STARDUST families have issued an ultimatum to the Taoiseach warning they will begin protesting unless details of a promised independent examination are handed over.

Three pathologists are to give medical evidence at a preliminary hearing of the inquest of student Brian Murphy after controversy arose surrounding his cause of death, it was ruled today.

On the balance of probability, it would appear judicious that another inquiry into the cause of the tragic Stardust fire be held.