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THE families of 48 young people who were killed when a fire ripped through the Stardust nightclub have said they can finally bring them home - 'out of the flames, the darkness and the smoke'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MESSAGES sent to a ship carrying €157million worth of cocaine trying to escape Irish waters told a group on board to set a course for Africa at full speed and to burn the drugs if a helicopter attempted to intercept the vessel, a trial has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THREE men who were jailed for the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have appealed their convictions, arguing that phone records used during their trial were an invasion of privacy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A DATE has been set of January 23 for the State's appeal against the 'undue leniency' of the fully suspended sentence given to a former soldier who beat a woman unconscious on a Limerick street. He later boasted about it on social media. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 22-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his friend by stabbing him in the neck. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PRIMARY school teacher mounted a twoyear campaign of harassment in which she wrote letters to the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) alleging a care worker who worked with vulnerable families was abusing patients. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 22-YEAR-OLD man who was messaging women on Tinder minutes before he stabbed his one-time friend in the neck has been found guilty of murder, with the jury agreeing his claims of self-defence were 'self-serving nonsense'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A JUDGE has told disgraced former solicitor Michael Lynn, who is appealing his five-and-ahalf-year sentence for stealing more than €18million from six financial institutions during the Celtic Tiger era, that 'Irish society is a victim' of his offending. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LAWYERS for former Stardust manager Eamon Butterly made a dramatic last-minute application to prevent jurors from making a finding of unlawful killing, it can be revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THREE men jailed for their part in a vigilante 'mob' attack on security personnel guarding a repossessed farmhouse in Roscommon committed 'the most barbaric violations of human rights', the Court of Appeal has ruled in upholding their convictions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FORMER Terenure College rugby coach John McClean will now serve a sentence reduced by 18 months for sexually abusing 22 pupils. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SIX men and a teenager charged in connection with the murder of gunman Tristan Sherry on Christmas Eve have seen their cases transferred to the nonjury Special Criminal Court following a State application. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE State has argued sentences of between nine and 15 years imposed on three family members jailed as part of the Munster abuse trial - described by a judge as a case of 'sheer horror' featuring the rape and sexual exploitation of young children - were too lenient. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE first call to emergency services about the fire was made by barman Laurence Neville to Dublin Fire Brigade at 1.43am - three minutes after the blaze was noticed by those inside the club. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Stardust inquest jury has reached a majority verdict - which will be delivered today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Stardust inquest jury have been told that they cannot make any determination on an unborn baby being the 49th victim of the fire. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE last movements and the causes of death of the 48 people who lost their lives in the Stardust fire have been outlined in the summary of evidence in Dublin District Coroner's Court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Stardust inquest jury have been reminded that firefighters described being faced with 'an inferno', as the coroner's summary of the evidence continues. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE 'sunlight' shed on the evidence before the Stardust inquests has 'gone a long way in removing the stains, rumours, lies and mistakes' that 'haunted' victims families 'since before the embers of the fire even went out,' a barrister has said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AN electrical fault in a hot press is 'a likely cause' of the Stardust nightclub fire that killed 48 people, an expert witness told the inquest, confirming 'it is difficult to see' how the fire would have spread without combustible carpet tiles on the walls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Stardust inquests have heard how, in the hours after the blaze, the fiancé of one of the victims identified her remains by her engagement ring. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Stardust inquest jury has begun hearing details of the causes of death of those who lost their lives in the nightclub fire. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A SURVIVOR of the Stardust fire who lost her husband in the blaze told an inquest jury of the moment she saw the roof of the nightclub collapse and knew her husband was dead. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THREE people charged with posting images of or revealing the identities of two boys who murdered Ana Kriégel in 2018 may face trial at the Circuit Court following a ruling by the Court of Appeal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STARDUST survivors told an inquest that flames racing across the nightclub's ceiling were like the film Backdraft, with a substance like 'acid' falling on top of the crowd. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE teenager who murdered mother-of-two Urantsetseg Tserendorj in Dublin city centre is to remain serving his life sentence after his conviction was yesterday upheld by the Court of Appeal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A STARDUST patron has said the fire she saw on the night of the fatal blaze was like 'looking into hell', describing a 'rainbow of colours' that was 'mesmerising' as the flames spread across the nightclub ceiling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PATRONS of the Stardust nightclub have given evidence of people being unable to get out of the main doors of the building on the night of the blaze, with one witness saying he saw the main doors locked ten minutes before the fire started. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AN attendee of the Stardust nightclub on the night of the blaze became emotional yesterday as she recalled how there was 'pandemonium' as those who'd escaped tried to help people still inside, before 'everything went quiet'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STARDUST manager Eamon Butterly has accepted that months before the fatal 1981 fire, he was told 'in no uncertain terms' locks and chains on his premises were completely unacceptable when patrons were there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STARDUST manager Eamon Butterly has denied that half of the victims of the 1981 blaze died because three exits at the nightclub were locked when the fire broke out, preventing their escape. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STARDUST manager Eamon Butterly has denied telling a security warden that exit doors in the nightclub were locked during a concert over two years before the fatal fire, an inquest has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STARDUST manager Eamon Butterly has agreed with a barrister acting on behalf of families that three of the venue's exits 'failed'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STARDUST manager Eamon Butterly has said that there was no fire safety training for his staff and that 'we wouldn't know how we would get someone' to carry it out. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A FORMER waitress in the Stardust complex has said she was 'shocked' to read that a statement she made in 1981 quoted her as saying she did not remember ever seeing exit doors locked and chained during her time there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN has pleaded guilty to murdering two men in Sligo and causing serious harm to a third. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TEACHER Enoch Burke, dismissed from his position for alleged gross misconduct, has been ordered to pay legal costs to the Wilson's Hospital School in its successful High Court action against him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A FORMER senior doorman at the Stardust has told an inquest that he cannot say whether the exit doors were unlocked on the night of the fire that killed 48 people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SCHOOLS are now asking parents to take out Credit Union loans if they are unable to afford an iPad for their child, the Irish Daily Mail has learned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE floor manager of the Stardust nightclub has told an inquest that he thought the 1981 fire that killed 48 people was started deliberately so people could 'rob the bars'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE former floor manager of the Stardust club was allegedly heard - during a recess in the inquest yesterday - speaking to a person off-camera who said the doors in the club were locked on the night of the fire, to which the witness is said to have replied: 'It's nothing to do with me so I'm not saying that.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SPARKS were seen coming from the ceiling of the Stardust during concerts up to a month before the blaze, the inquest has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A FIRE extinguisher in the Stardust was empty on the night of the blaze and had been empty every time it was inspected in the three years before the fire in 1981, an inquest has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A YOUNG woman killed in the Stardust fire 'can never be a case number', her sister has told the inquest, speaking of how 'part of all of us died' on the night the blaze swept through the nightclub in Artane, Dublin, more than 40 years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A NOW 86-year-old mother who lost three of her children in the Stardust fire has told of the impact of the tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 17-YEAR-OLD had a vision of his death just three weeks before his life was ended in the Stardust nightclub fire, the inquest into the tragedy has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]