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Funerals held for Stardust victims

Stardust fire - Funerals for idenified victims
Stardust fire - Funerals for idenified victims

Funerals have been held in recent days for five previously unidentified victims of the Stardust fire, after modern DNA testing was able to confirm their identities.

They had been buried in a communal grave after the 1981 fire that killed 48 people.

Today, the Stardust Victims' Committee insisted the Government must deliver on a promise to fund a new examination of the fire. 


A Government spokeswoman said the €400,000 funding was being dealt with as a matter of urgency.