Butterly admits evidence over locking Stardust doors has been 'contradictory'

Eamon Butterly told the inquests: 'I’m not making anything up'

Eamon Butterly told the inquest on Wednesday that the locking and unlocking of exit doors at the nightclub was a joint policy with door staff. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins

The man who managed the Stardust nightclub has told fresh inquests the evidence he has given over the practice of locking doors at the venue has been “contradictory”.

However, he has denied he was “making up” the version of events he has told the court where he has maintained he was told that all the doors were open in the early hours of February 14, 1981, when the devastating fire spread through the north Dublin venue.