Tonight is the 30th anniversary of the Stardust tragedy.

Kersh · 14-02-2011 04:32PM

There was another party in power , what, 5 months, after it happened

Yes, FG I think, led by Garret Fitzgerald.

As far as I remember He promised the families compensation if they dropped all other legal avenues. In the end the survivors got pretty much nothing, as well as having to bear their scars to a panel in order to be assessed.

Turtyturd · 14-02-2011 04:40PM

Always remember my Da talking about how him and my Uncle were supposed to go to this but changed their minds at the last minute because they couldn't get ties and didn't think they would be allowed in. Kinda strange to think about what could have been.

Other than that I have no memory of the incident but such a horible thing to happen.

Run_to_da_hills · 14-02-2011 04:46PM

Sheeps wrote: »

i dont care about the stardust disaster. its a relic of the past

May be for you it's a relic of the past but it's certainly not for those that have lost loved ones and at the same time had salt thrown in their wounds by not seeing any justice done over the matter.

BaZmO* · 14-02-2011 05:13PM

Sheeps wrote: »

i dont care about the stardust disaster. its a relic of the past

I don't get comments like that. Fair enough that it means nothing to you but why feel the need to be a dick by dismissing it as a relic? If you don't care, don't post.

Orando Broom · 14-02-2011 05:19PM

PrincessLola wrote: »

:eek: He what??
How could he??:(
This was years before I was born, so I don't know anything about it, but wow, so sad RIP.

This was commonplace in Ireland.

Orando Broom · 14-02-2011 05:25PM

Sheeps wrote: »

i dont care about the stardust disaster. its a relic of the past

You should. It is a pivotal moment in Irish social history. It is a microcosm of so many social ills and problems in Ireland of that time and since. It highlights the ineptitude and corruption in official Ireland. The cover up culture as well as the blackguard culture that manifests itself daily in the scummers you see patrolling the streets of this city. Guards and Firemen were attacked and beaten by mobs (albeit a minority, but nonetheless) outside whilst fighting the fire.

The Butterley's got away scot free and given official sanction to continue trading without the merest hint towards what had previously happened. Successive governments carpetbagged the issue in the hope that the noisy people of North Dublin would just shut up and put up.

Stardust should never be forgotten, it was a tragedy that reverberated throughout this island and it could have been any one of a hundred dancehalls the lenght and breath of the country.

To see it;'s impact make that statement to your mother or father and see how you get on.

df1985 · 14-02-2011 06:03PM

Wasnt even born at the time but its a scary thought for 48 young people from one general area to be wiped out in one incident. In my head im imagining if that happened where Im from (Leixlip) in one of the local spots....everyone would know people involved and the area would be shellshocked to the core.

RIP.

Luke G · 14-02-2011 06:09PM

Sheeps wrote: »

i dont care about the stardust disaster. its a relic of the past

Keep your nasty Ignorance & Insensitivity to yourself mate ..or even better try fitting some of it up your hole that way nobody else can see it,

Guy:Incognito · 14-02-2011 07:17PM

Luke G wrote: »

Keep your nasty Ignorance & Insensitivity to yourself mate ..or even better try fitting some of it up your hole that way nobody else can see it,

Is that not what AH is for ? Or is that just for when celebrities people dotn like die?

starbelgrade · 14-02-2011 07:22PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Is that not what AH is for ? Or is that just for when celebrities people dotn like die?

There's a difference between slagging off a celebrity & making insensitive comments about people dieing horrific deaths in a blazing inferno.

I'm sure you know that already, but I just thought I'd point out the glibness of your post in case you didn't.

The Black Pearl · 14-02-2011 08:07PM

Sheeps wrote: »

i dont care about the stardust disaster. its a relic of the past

:eek: f'kin spastic

Steodonn · 14-02-2011 08:17PM

Before my time but my mother lived in artane> I remember her saying that she was thinking about going that but was busy with something.

RIP those who died

daysleeper · 14-02-2011 08:28PM

RTE did a surprisingly good dramatisation of the whole thing a few years ago but I can't find it anywhere on the internet... does anyone know if it's set to be on any time soon? or is it available to buy I wonder?
Here's a clip from it

Sunnyisland · 14-02-2011 08:31PM

Rip to the victims of this unnecessary tragedy,

On rte 1 now scannell.

Micky Dolenz · 14-02-2011 08:43PM

Sheeps banned for trolling.

amdublin · 14-02-2011 08:50PM

I'm watching Scannal on RTE one about it right now.

Shocking.

All those victims. Desperate. RIP

iMax · 14-02-2011 09:01PM

Two of my aunts went there that night, one with her boyfriend & his sister. In the queue to get in, they met another friend of theirs who was out celebrating her 19th birthday, fed up with waiting in the cold, the friend decided she was going to saints in Howth instead.

She tried to convince my aunts (age 17 & 19) & the boyfriend to go with them, to split the taxi because of the cost.

The following morning, my grandmother rang our house screaming down the phone that the two girls had gone to the stardust & hadn't come home & broke the news about the fire & all havoc broke out in our house. My mother was crying, my dad had tears in his eyes.

A neighbour was called to look after us (who were confused as can be because no-one would tell us anything). My mom & dad got dressed & kept trying to ring people to get information, but nobody could tell them anything.

Us kids were got dressed & we were walking out the door to go to the neighbours when my 17 year old aunt called out my sister's name (she was first out the door). The pair of them were walking down the road.

They'd decided as the taxi was pulling off with the friend in it to go to Howth instead, they then spent the night in the friends house after. They knew nothing about the events of the night before, they were coming to my mother's for breakfast as their friend lived two streets over.

My aunt's boyfriend's sister went in to meet her boyfriend. They both died.

RIP to them & the other 46.

cml387 · 14-02-2011 09:58PM

I remember it well.
It was always an "interesting" fact for me that the inquiry was chaired by Justice Ronan Keane.
He was married to Terry Keane of whom you may have heard.
You may Google the names to join the dots.

coylemj · 14-02-2011 10:13PM

cml387 wrote: »

I remember it well.
It was always an "interesting" fact for me that the inquiry was chaired by Justice Ronan Keane.
He was married to Terry Keane of whom you may have heard.
You may Google the names to join the dots.

What has that got to do with anything?

For those among you trying to link him to Charlie Haughey because of the affair Haughey had with Terry Keane, Ronan Keane was appointed to the High Court in July 1979 when Jack Lynch was Taoiseach, to the Supreme Court in 1996 when John Bruton was Taoiseach and he was made Chief Justice in 2000 when Bertie Ahern was Taoiseach.

Sorry if this blows the conspiracy theories away.

cml387 · 14-02-2011 10:18PM

coylemj wrote: »

What has that got to do with anything?

For those among you trying to link him to Charlie Haughey because of the affair Haughey had with Terry Keane, Ronan Keane was appointed to the High Court in July 1979 when Jack Lynch was Taoiseach, to the Supreme Court in 1996 when John Bruton was Taoiseach and he was made Chief Justice in 2000 when Bertie Ahern was Taoiseach.

Sorry if this blows the conspiracy theories away.

Such a small country it is,don't you think?

Micky Dolenz · 14-02-2011 10:24PM

The above whispers and half truths stop here.

Truley · 14-02-2011 10:30PM

daysleeper wrote: »

RTE did a surprisingly good dramatisation of the whole thing a few years ago but I can't find it anywhere on the internet... does anyone know if it's set to be on any time soon? or is it available to buy I wonder?
Here's a clip from it

Wow, I would consider myself pretty thick-skinned but that was really upsetting. I don't think I would want to see the whole film

Latchy · 14-02-2011 10:30PM

I remember this tragedy and the whole horror of the night so well .

The doors being locked by steel bars and every other possible avenue of escape blocked ,with the owner or nobody being brought to account, is the one thing that always stuck in my mind .

RIP

P_1 · 14-02-2011 10:36PM

One must wonder if we'd be waiting 30 years and counting for somebody to be brought to justice for this were it to have happened on the other side of the Liffey.

RIP the 48.

Luke G · 15-02-2011 01:10PM

Here's a link to download the Stardust Drama & TV3's Remembering Stardust 30 Years on

DRAMA http://depositfiles.com/en/files/7730bbacb

TV3'S REMEMBERING STARDUST

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/j0fwmzl09

Thanks to board member livEwirE

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Rabidlamb · 15-02-2011 02:28PM

I remember a few years back the campaign for a full public inquiry gathering momentum, around the time of the RTE documentary.
The main thrust was to expose the failings of the authorities in checking the venue re: barring of doors & windows plus the slow response of the emergency services.
It lost ground as people saw it it as a money grabbing exercise on the part of the families to make the state liable.

Luke G · 15-02-2011 02:38PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I remember a few years back the campaign for a full public inquiry gathering momentum, around the time of the RTE documentary.
The main thrust was to expose the failings of the authorities in checking the venue re: barring of doors & windows plus the slow response of the emergency services.
It lost ground as people saw it it as a money grabbing exercise on the part of the families to make the state liable.

Indeed & If social networking can bring a Gov down in Egypt it can force a New Enquiry for the 48 lost souls of the Stardust disaster!! Make our Gov who are full of promises at the moment open a new enquiry!! Sign the petition!!!!
Click on Petition For New Enquiry, Pass it on & Sign it NOW!!!!!!
www.stardustsupport.com

Thanks Everybody!

Tonight is the 30th anniversary of the Stardust tragedy.

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