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Stardust fire tragedy

For decades Brigid McDermott left a key in the door for her children who never came home - now she is with them again
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Year after year, Bridget left a key in the door hoping that one of her lost brood might somehow walk back into her life
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Stardust fire survivors offered five figure payment to recognise 'delays in providing truth and justice'
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Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan announced the scheme on Tuesday, ahead of the 45th anniversary of the tragedy
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Stardust baby Lisa Lawlor 'cried a little harder' on first memorial day since inquest
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On Valentine’s Day 44 years ago, 48 young people died at Stardust nightclub in Artane
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Opening of art studios at site of Stardust tragedy 'bittersweet', says survivor
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Jim Fitzpatrick said it was 'so lovely' to see a 'new feel' and fresh beginning on the site of the club that burned down in 1981
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Stardust campaigner Antoinette Keegan explains why she is contesting election for National Party
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Ms Keegan was in Stardust nightclub when it caught fire during a Valentine's Day disco in 1981. Some 48 people perished, including her two sisters Mary, 19, and 16-year-old Martina.
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'A new dawn' - Cabinet signs off on €24 million redress programme for families of Stardust victims
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The confirmation of the redress programme comes several months after Taoiseach Simon Harris delivered a State apology to the victims of the Stardust tragedy and their families
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Cost for Stardust inquests set to top €20 million, figures by Department of Justice show
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Costs include the three years preparing for the proceedings as well as the year-long hearings which were held in public
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Inequality is the central issue that Official Ireland fails to address - Kieran Cunningham
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Retired maverick journalist Vincent Browne regrets not copping on to the central issue until late in his career
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Engagement with Stardust families on redress set to start this week
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Taoiseach Simon Harris will update Cabinet this morning on the actions taken by the Government since the Stardust inquest verdict was delivered in mid-April.
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Stardust victims ‘written into the history books’ says Taoiseach at ceremony to commemorate 48 deaths
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Co-designed with the families of the victims, the ceremony remembered the 48 young people who died in the Stardust tragedy and all those who helped victims and their families on the night and over the years since
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Stardust campaigner, 87, facing one more battle to attend commemoration event
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Exclusive: Bridget McDermott, who lost three of her children in the tragedy, suffered a stroke after the recent inquest verdict, and is hoping to get out of hospital before June 23
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Stardust families to recount 'queue for the morgue' in wake of fire tragedy for RTE documentary
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A survivor of the blaze will recall how his parents located him in a hospital but didn't recognise him due to the extent of his injuries
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Exclusive: Stardust manager stays silent as he's pictured for first time since unlawful killing verdict
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Our exclusive pictures show Butterly, 79, back outside his plush gated home in North Co Dublin - almost a month after a jury found that all 48 victims of the infamous 1981 nightclub fire were unlawfully killed
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Ireland doesn't have resources to deal with another Stardust tragedy, top surgeon warns
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Consultant plastic surgeon Odhran Shelley, from St James’ Hospital in Dublin, also yesterday claimed the survivors of tragedies can be “marginalised”
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Sister of Stardust victim put black candle on Charlie Haughey's grave because he 'covered up' tragedy
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“I brought a black candle and I stuck it in Charlie’s grave so that the souls know, he’s a dark soul, he’s corrupt, he knew more than what he told and he covered up”
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Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham 'should have been at Stardust' on the night of the fire
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Liam Cunningham said it was a “disgrace” that the families had to wait 43 years for an apology and also paid tribute to late RTÉ broadcaster Charlie Bird
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Gardaí will have to 'consider' Stardust criminal case possibility, Taoiseach says
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After his State apology, the Taoiseach will now write to the families personally to apologise for a 43-year delay in issuing an apology
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'After 43 long years of struggle, vindication at last for Stardust families'
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It won’t bring the victims back, but this public apology is an official acknowledgement of the wrong inflicted. For those who have suffered Stardust, it was a basic human right
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Stardust families 'annoyed' over Charlie Haughey's son's Dáil speech
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Charlie Haughey was Taoiseach and a local TD for the area when the fire occurred on February 14 1981.
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Stardust families cautiously welcome State apology and call for criminal investigation
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As the families cautiously welcomed Taoiseach Simon Harris’ State apology 43 years after the Stardust nightclub blaze, many were left asking why it took so long for the State to recognise the strife they had been experiencing since the 1981 fire.
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Mary Lou McDonald says Government underestimated willpower of Stardust families
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Taoiseach Simon Harris delivered a State apology to the victims and families of the Stardust tragedy in the Dáil on Tuesday afternoon
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Taoiseach remembers 49th victim of Stardust tragedy as he makes "unreserved" apology to families
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In his speech, Mr Harris said that the families were were failed by the State “when you needed us most”
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Taoiseach says Stardust families have been 'failed' ahead of State apology
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Taoiseach Simon Harris will issue a State apology to the families of those who lost their lives in the tragic fire in the Stardust nightclub in Artane, north Dublin, on February 14, 1981
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Stardust survivor sad late parents and Charlie Bird did not live to see justice but says State apology 'a step forward'
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Antoinette Keegan, who was 18 at the time of the fire, told the Irish Mirror that today’s State apology by Taoiseach Simon Harris is another “step forward” following last week’s unlawful killing verdicts at the Dublin District court.
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