Mick Clifford: Genuine sorrow for Stardust victims, but has anything changed?

Indifference informed treatment of victims’ families, and there’s little to suggest that much has changed

Taoiseach Simon Harris issues a State apology to the families of the victims of the Stardust fire. Picture: Oireachtas TV/PA

At times, the proceedings in the Dáil took on the character of a memorial service. 

While Taoiseach Simon Harris delivered brief pen pictures of the Stardust victims, it was as though they were being remembered in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy that took their lives.