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The Irish PM met the families of those killed in the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire.

Ireland's new taoiseach has apologised to the families of 48 people killed in the Stardust nightclub fire in 1981, after a decades-long campaign for justice.

A sister of one of the victims said in the wake of the verdicts: ‘We’ve got truth, we’ve got the justice’…

The Butterly family presided over a wide network of businesses in its heyday – but many shut or went into receivership during the financial crisis.

Any new inquiry after inquest verdicts of unlawful killings would be largest multiple homicide investigation of modern era

?The coroner’s report into the Stardust tragedy will be reviewed by gardaí “at the highest level” before a decision is made on the direction of a potential ­criminal action, if any.

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The state should apologise for decades of legal and political barriers