Eamon Butterly agrees Stardust management was 'not fit for purpose'

On his eighth and final day of evidence at the fresh inquests for the 48 young people who died in the fire in February 1981, Mr Butterly maintained that all the emergency exit doors were open at the time the fire broke out. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Management of the Stardust nightclub where 48 people died in a fire in 1981 was “not fit for purpose”, its former manager has agreed.

Eamon Butterly also agreed before a 13-person jury at Dublin District Coroner’s Court that a number of bye-laws were broken at the north Dublin venue, including exit doors being locked, no employees given specific duties in the event of a fire, and failing to hold a fire drill once a week.