The jury in the Stardust inquests is "very close" to reaching verdicts, the Dublin City Coroner's Court heard as the tenth day of deliberations concluded.
The foreman of the 12-person jury was responding to a question from the coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, who asked the jury what progress they had been making.
The jury also asked four questions in relation to their deliberations today.
The coroner told the jurors that the verdicts were a matter for them and that there was "nothing automatic" about the conclusions they reach, neither is there any verdict they must return she said.
She was replying to questions from the jury around the factors that must be met to reach certain verdicts.
Dr Cullinane also told the jurors that the verdict they return is the one they view to most appropriately reflect the manner in which the deceased lost their lives.
The jury will resume their deliberations tomorrow at 10am, an hour earlier than normal.
She said she will ask the foreman about the progress they are making at 11am.
As has been the cause throughout these proceedings, a number of families of the victims were in court today.
The seven women and five men initially retired to consider their verdicts on Wednesday 3 April. The jurors have been deliberating, in total, for around 36 hours.
In all, these fresh inquests at the Dublin City Coroner's Court sat for 122 days and heard testimony from 370 witnesses.
They got under way last April after a direction from the Attorney General who said that there had been an insufficiency of inquiry at the original inquests which were held in 1982.
The move followed a sustained campaign by the families.
In her charge to the jury last month, the coroner told the jury that there were five verdicts open to them - accidental death, death by misadventure, unlawful killing, an open verdict or a narrative verdict.
