The inquest into the Stardust nightclub deaths will be held in April, a coroner’s court has heard, but families of the victims are “very hopeful” it could happen earlier.
A lengthy process has been continuing to hold an inquest into the deaths of 48 people in the nightclub fire in Dublin on Valentine’s Day in 1981.
In September 2019, then-attorney general Seamus Woulfe ordered that fresh inquests be held due to what he called an “insufficiency” of inquiry into how the deaths had occurred and what had caused the fire.
