Stardust inquest: 'We are reclaiming Marie from the darkness and despair'

Relatives of those killed in the Stardust fire gathered at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin ahead of the first day of the inquest. File picture

A sibling of one of the Stardust fire victims has told the Dublin district coroner’s court that they have sought to celebrate her life by “reclaiming her from the darkness and despair and bringing her back into the sunlight where she belongs”.

The eighth day of the pen portraits that are kicking off the fresh Stardust inquests heard on Friday from sisters of two young women who died in the nightclub fire on February 14, 1981.