Famous figures may help fund Stardust fire inquiry
The group is hoping that well-known stars will provide signed jerseys and other memorabilia for a charity auction to cover the €10,000 cost of a new Stardust report by electrical and forensic experts. There are 46 boxes of evidence from the tragedy still stored in the Customs House in Dublin.
“The Government has agreed that if we come back with new evidence, they will establish an inquiry. I lost two sisters in that fire and I want to find out what happened, to bring closure,” spokeswoman Antoinette Keegan said.
The original tribunal inquiry chaired by Justice Keane found the Stardust owners, the Butterly family, guilty of negligence for keeping emergency exits locked, but said the fire had probably been started deliberately.
The gardaí did not bring any prosecution against the Butterly family, who later claimed for over £500,000 in malicious damages due to the fire.
The Stardust Victims Committee said it had new evidence.
A recent book on the Stardust tragedy, “But They Never Came Home,” claimed a confidential garda report on the tragedy uncovered no evidence of arson, and that the investigating gardaí did not believe the fire was started maliciously.
