Stardust manager says exit doors weren't kept locked out of 'greed' or 'arrogance' 

 Eamon Butterly, former manager of the Stardust club.

The former manager of the Stardust nightclub has admitted it was “wrong” to keep exit doors locked and chained while members of the public were on the premises, but said they weren’t kept locked out of “greed” or “arrogance”.

Amid tense scenes at Dublin District Coroner’s Court on his seventh day of evidence, Eamon Butterly agreed that he knew the practice of keeping some of the emergency exit doors locked until 11.30pm or midnight on disco nights was a breach of the requirements of Dublin Corporation at the time and a “serious fire hazard”.