Stardust survivor recalls horror of sisters’ deaths

THE terrible way one woman learned how her two sisters died in the Stardust fire has been recounted, ahead of the 30th anniversary of the blaze that claimed 48 lives among Valentine’s Eve night revellers.

Antoinette Keegan who was with her sisters, Mary and Martina, in the inferno believed they had survived until a priest broke the news to her in her hospital bed.

She tells a TV programme recalling the 1981 disaster: “A priest came in and he said ‘what’s your name’. I said ‘Antoinette Keegan’. He said ‘your two sisters died in the fire’.