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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Danny De Vaal

Stardust tragedy: Tearful families unite at Garden of Remembrance to remember victims

Relatives of the 48 Stardust victims gathered in the Garden of Remembrance on Thursday after the final pen portrait was delivered.

The devastated families said reading the tributes about those who died meant their loved ones were no longer just a number and told the story of who they were and could have been.

The last pen portrait was read out during the Stardust inquest which is being held at the Dublin District Coroner’s Court in the Pillar Room of the Rotunda Hospital. Following the last tribute, the inquest was adjourned until Tuesday.

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Afterward, families of the victims made the short walk to the Garden of Remembrance where the names of each person who lost their life were read out followed by a 48-second silence to honour the 48 who died after a fire swept through the Artane nightclub in the early hours of February 14, 1981.

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