No Stardust Inquiry

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 Stardust families lose inquiry fight
23/01/2009 - 16:43:05
Grieving families of the Stardust disaster tonight lost their long-running battle for a fresh inquiry into the blaze.

An
independent review of circumstances of the fire, which claimed the
lives of 48 young people in 1981, has found a new investigation was not
in the public interest.

Paul Coffey SC said the Stardust
Victims� Committee had not identified any new evidence capable of
establishing the cause of the fire.

Hundreds of revellers were
injured in the Valentine�s blaze which broke out in the Stardust
nightclub in Artane, north Dublin, in 1981.

For almost 25 years
grieving relatives have rejected the findings of an inquiry at the time
which recorded the cause as probable arson in an alcove of the
nightclub.

Mr Coffey said it could be argued that a further
inquiry would at least establish whether the fire began in the west
alcove or the roof-space, which relatives claimed.

�However, it
seems to me that at a remove of nearly three decades from the date of
the fire and in the absence of any identified evidence which can be
establish the cause of the fire whatsoever it arose, the public
interest would not be served in establishing a further inquiry further
for that purpose only,� he said.

Mr Coffey recommended
Government considers whether it could correct the public record stating
that there is no evidence the fire was stared deliberately and that the
cause remains unknown.

He said if this can not be done, there
should be a further inquiry for the limited purpose of of establishing
the cause of the fire.�

The inquiry should be expressly prohibited from trawling for a hypothetical explanation for the fire,� he added.

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Given the way the families were treated last week when they occupied the security hut at government buildings, I have to say that I'm not surprised.
One has to wonder, had a non-FF government been in place, would the outcome have been the same? Whatever the case, its a disgrace!