Harrowing and heartbreaking accounts at Stardust inquests

Eamon Butterly at the Dublin District Coroner's Court, sitting in the Rotunda Hospital, where he gave evidence at the inquests into the Stardust tragedy. Picture: Collins Dublin

The Stardust inquests, which have already sat for 62 days, are being conducted in modules.

Holding the largest inquests in modern Irish history was never going to be a quick process. The fresh examination into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 48 young people following the fire in the north Dublin nightclub in the early hours of February 14, 1981, is multi-faceted, with much for the jury to consider.