Stardust doorman was 'all over the place' when he 'lied' about emergency exits 

Michael Kavanagh told inquest his claim after fire that exits had been unlocked was 'through stupidity' 

Fresh inquests are examining the deaths of 48 people following the fire at the nightclub in Artane in the early hours of St Valentine’s Day 1981. Picture: Colin Keegan/ Collins 

A former doorman at the Stardust club in north Dublin who initially claimed he had opened all the emergency exits on the night of the fire but later admitted telling “lies”, has told fresh inquests he was “caught up in something not of [his] own making”.

“It was through stupidity I did what I did,” Michael Kavanagh, then a 20-year-old doorman at the premises, said on Tuesday.