'It still hurts as if it was yesterday' — Victims' sisters tell Stardust inquest of four decades of grief

'It still hurts as if it was yesterday' — Victims' sisters tell Stardust inquest of four decades of grief

(Left to right) Susan Behan with a portrait of John Colgan (21), Alison Keane with a portrait of Jacqueline Croker (18) and Siobhan Kearney with a portrait of Liam Dunne (18) outside the Rotunda today at the Stardust Inquest. Photo: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

Three sisters released four decades of grief as the moving testimonies continued at the Stardust inquests in Dublin.

On the third day, the inquest heard accounts from the families of Johnny Colgan (21), Jacqueline Croker (18), and Liam Dunne (18), three of the 48 who lost their lives in the fire at a disco in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 1981 in the Stardust club in north Dublin.

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