The inquest heard that most of the victims were already dead by the time the first fire engines arrived at the scene. Firefighters found unimaginable carnage; heaps of bodies and body parts.
It was a night of giddy teenage romance that suddenly turned into Ireland's worst ever fire disaster. The Stardust inferno killed 48 young people, injured hundreds more and led to a decades-long search for answers and justice. Around 800 youngsters had made their way to the Stardust, a nightclub housed in a converted factory in the north Dublin suburb of Artane, on the night of 13 February 1981. An evening of dancing and drinking on the eve of Valentine's Day was promised.
This infuriated survivors and relatives of the dead, who saw it as victim-blaming. And so a long campaign began. The finding of arson not only protected the nightclub's owners, the Butterly family, from any criminal charges or civil lawsuits, but also entitled them to compensation. They were awarded IR£581,000 from a Dublin court in 1983.
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