Stardust victims’ families complain over ‘degrading treatment by state’

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

The families are angry there has been no criminal investigation of the fire that killed 48 young people in the Stardust Nightclub on Dublin’s northside in 1981.

They claim that the way they and their injured and dead loved ones had been treated showed that the state had fundamentally failed to protect and defend their human rights.