Stardust inquest: 92-year-old mother of victim asked for daughter 'with her dying breath'

Stardust inquest: 92-year-old mother of victim asked for daughter 'with her dying breath'

Relatives of those killed in the Stardust fire at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin ahead of the first day of the inquest on April 25.

The mother of one of the Stardust victims asked for her daughter “with her dying breath” when she passed away aged 92 last summer, the Coroner’s Court has heard.

Margaret Kiernan, who died in the blaze at the Stardust Ballroom on February 14, 1981, was remembered on Tuesday as a “kind and sensitive soul” who loved her family.

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