Comment: Stardust evidence enters critical phase

Former Stardust doorman Michael Kavanagh arrives at the Rotunda to give evidence at the Stardust inquest on Thursday where he couldn't explain why he had originally said he unlocked the emergency exits when he hadn’t. Photo: Sam Boal / © RollingNews.ie
Before he took the stand, the evidence of Michael Kavanagh before the jury at the Stardust inquests was seen as potentially crucial.
He was a junior doorman at the Stardust venue in Artane, north Dublin, on February 13, 1981, when disaster struck. He was just 20 years old at the time.