Court orders Eamon Butterly to pay families' costs of his failed last ditch High Court bid

Just before Easter weekend last, the former Stardust manager brought an emergency application seeking to challenge a decision made by Dublin City Coroner, Myra Cullinane, to allow the jury return a verdict of unlawful killing

Eamon Butterly had argued that, as the families lawyers' fees for the inquest were already being paid for by the State, they should not have to be paid by him. File photo: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

Eamon Butterly has been ordered to pay the legal costs of the families of the 48 people who died in the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire for their representation at his failed last ditch High Court attempt to prevent an inquest jury bringing in its unlawful killing verdict.

Just before Easter weekend last, the former Stardust manager brought an emergency application before Mr Justice Tony O'Connor seeking to challenge a decision made by Dublin City Coroner, Myra Cullinane, to allow the jury return a verdict of unlawful killing.