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Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...report. It must be remembered that this report came only after the Government of the day set up a non-statutory inquiry and John Gallagher SC had to resign because he had already represented the Garda Síochána. We are here today because of the absolute courage and determination of the families who are here and of those who cannot be here. It is a humbling experience. It must...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: ...;d who are the heroes of 43 years of desperate struggle. Their total vindication in the inquest jury's verdict is a huge contribution to Irish democracy and an inspiration to all other groups fighting for social justice in this country. It is clearly incumbent on An Garda Síochána to urgently investigate and re-examine the performance of the owner and operator of the Stardust...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...a system from the English to cover everything up, with nothing to see here. Our people are being denied justice, day in, day out. There was the unlawful killing of the young Rossiter boy in Clonmel Garda station. Again, it was covered up. The wrongdoing is going on, day in, day out, to this very moment. It is probably happening to many families with Tusla at the moment, given what is...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...who woke that Saturday morning to find their children’s beds empty. We cannot even begin to think what must have been going through their minds as they began the frantic search for their loved ones in Garda stations, hospitals and, sadly for some, at the makeshift morgue at the Dublin Coroner’s Court, where a tent had to be erected by the Army medical corps due to the...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...those second-class lives that are still not worthy of the truth and other cases of injustice affecting those from the wrong side of the tracks. For example, I think of the family of Terence Wheelock, a healthy young man who walked into Store Street Garda station almost 20 years ago but came out in a coffin. These things just do not happen to middle-class men. I also think of the...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...died with those young lives taken in the Stardust - with those young people so brutally injured in the Stardust. The news of the fire and fatalities had spread through the early morning. Families gathered at the local Garda station desperately seeking information about their loved ones. They were told to get the bus – to get the bus to the hospital or the morgue. This...