Former soldier loses appeal over Stardust PTSD claim

A former soldier who sued over post-traumatic stress disorder, allegedly from seeing bodies of some of the 48 victims of the 1981 Stardust fire, has lost his Supreme Court appeal against the dismissal of his action.

Peter McGarry was a soldier, aged in his 20s, when he was assigned from Cathal Brugha barracks to help retrieve bodies from the fire in Artane.

In proceedings initiated in 1995 against the Defence Forces and State, he sued over PTSD allegedly suffered after helping place disfigured remains of young victims in an army tent set up as a makeshift morgue.