Stardust inquests: Verdicts to be delivered on Thursday
Stardust File 1981 In The Picture From Fire Damage
The jury in the Stardust inquests has reached majority verdicts, the foreman has confirmed.
The verdicts will be delivered on Thursday from 2pm after the coroner deferred the announcement to allow for family members of the victims to gather.
On Wednesday afternoon, the foreman told Coroner Myra Cullinane that a unanimous verdict could not be reached.
The coroner said that she would accept a simple majority of seven.
It is the eleventh day the seven women and five men have been deliberating.
The inquests into the deaths of 48 people after a fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, north Dublin, began in April last year and have heard evidence from 373 people.
The fire broke out in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 1981.
The inquests, which are the longest held in Ireland, have been sitting for almost a year.