Stardust fire disaster - Fire service needs proper resourcing

AFTER an agonising wait of 26 years, the families of five unidentified victims of the 1981 Stardust disaster have at long last laid them to rest, bringing closure of a kind to one of the most harrowing tragedies ever to occur in Ireland.

As a result of advances in scientific know-how, complex DNA testing led to the identification of the remains of victims recently exhumed from a communal plot.

Following five separate funeral masses and reburials last week, the headstones will now bear the names of Richard Bennett, Michael Ffrench, Murty Kavanagh, Eamon Loughman and Paul Wade.