Stardust inquests: Coroner rejects bid to exclude possible unlawful killing verdict

Antoinette Keegan and Pauline Braymer holding photos of Stardust victims Martina and Mary Keegan with Stardust supporters and families at the Coroners Court inquest into the Stardust tragedy in the RDS, Dublin, last week.

A Dublin city coroner has rejected an application from the man who ran the Stardust nightclub for “unlawful killing” to be excluded as a possible verdict at the upcoming inquests.

Some 48 people died in the fire at the nightclub on Valentine's Day in 1981.