Bereaved families to appear at Stardust independent hearing

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

Members of the Stardust Victims’ Committee are to meet with senior counsel John Gallagher, who is overseeing the examination, on January 22 and 23.

Families involved in the committee’s 26-year-long campaign for justice have been allocated two hours each to discuss what they believe happened on February 14, 1981 when 48 young people were killed in the Stardust ballroom in Artane, Co Dublin.