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Families of 48 young people who died in 1981 fire have long called for an official State apology and were invited to the Dáil on Tuesday
Forty-eight people were killed when a blaze ripped through the Dublin nightclub in 1981.
The victims, survivors and families of the Stardust tragedy have hailed a “bittersweet” day after Taoiseach Simon Harris issued a State apology in the Dáil.
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‘The institutions of this State failed you,’ says Taoiseach Simon Harris
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This was not a test of his decision-making – it was a test of his ability to perform as Taoiseach