Govt to consider DNA tests on unidentified Stardust victims

Survivors of the Stardust disaster have welcomed the news that the Government will consider carrying out DNA tests on the five remaining unidentified victims of the fire.

In a letter to the Stardust Victims Committee, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has promised to seek expert advice on the matter once an exhumation licence in granted.

Forty-eight young people died in the fire that gutted the Stardust nightclub in the Artane area of north Dublin on St Valentine's Day, 1981.

Antoinette Keegan, a spokesperson for the Stardust Victims Committee, said today that the families of the unidentified victims were relieved that they may finally have closure after 25 years of limbo.