Stardust owner launches judicial review ahead of inquest into 48 deaths

Stardust survivor, Antoinette Keegan (front left); Sinn Fein senator, Lynn Boylan; supporters, and families of the Stardust in Buswells Hotel press room to launch the Stardust Inquest Jury Bill. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

The man who ran the Stardust nightclub in Dublin has launched Judicial Review proceedings ahead of the upcoming inquests for the 48 people who died in the 1981 tragedy.

Solicitors for Eamon Butterly filed papers to the High Court yesterday, which comes in the wake of coroner Dr Myra Cullinane ruling that unlawful killing would not be ruled out as a possible verdict at the inquests, which have still yet to get fully under way.