High Court dismisses Eamon Butterly application made before jury's Stardust deliberations

This bid was Eamon Butterly's second judicial review he brought in respect of a possible verdict of unlawful death

Eamon Butterly's arguments were that the coroner had erred in law in separate decisions she made in March 2024 to allow the jury return a verdict of unlawful killing where there is a limited number of connected people associated with such a verdict according to the evidence adduced. File photo: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

The former manager of the Stardust nightclub Eamon Butterly, before the jury began deliberations, mounted a High Court bid to bring a legal challenge which could have delayed the inquest verdict.

The case can now be reported following the returning of the verdict at the inquest into the deaths of 48 young people at the Stardust Nightclub on Valentine’s night in 1981.