Stardust inquest: Manager continued locking exit doors despite ‘repeated warnings’ from authoritiesEamon Butterly admits it was ‘wrong’ to lock doors before midnight, but stands over £500k malicious damage claim for fire in which 48 people died in 1981Thu Oct 05 2023 - 20:24
Stardust inquests: Eamon Butterly accused of being ‘last man standing’ on condition of exit doorsFormer nightclub manager spends sixth day in witness box at Dublin coroner’s courtWed Oct 04 2023 - 18:40
Traveller housing plans should not require public consultation, rights body says The commission says “consideration” should be given to whether Traveller housing plans instead go directly to An Bord Pleanála thereby removing them from the political arenaMon Oct 02 2023 - 06:18
Number of homeless children reaches highest level since records beganNational review of homelessness figures after overstatement of Dublin numbersFri Sept 29 2023 - 14:17
Dublin homeless numbers reported inaccurately for several monthsCommunication gap with private providers leads to overcount of homeless adults of about 300Thu Sept 28 2023 - 19:08
Former Stardust manager Eamon Butterly accused of ‘telling lies’ to inquestsWitness (78) rejects assertions his accounts of events before, after and on the night of the disaster were ‘not founded on truth’Thu Sept 28 2023 - 16:47
Stardust inquest: Eamon Butterly says he made decision to lock exit doors, but it was doorman’s ideaFormer manager of venue, where 48 people died in 1981 fire, agrees some evidence contradictoryWed Sept 27 2023 - 16:28
Stardust inquests: Eamon Butterly believed venue was ‘one of the safest places around’ Former manager of Dublin nightclub where 48 people died in 1981 fire gives evidence for third dayTue Sept 26 2023 - 18:36
Lung cancer specialist raises concerns over impact of vaping ‘There needs to be much more strict legislation and control of vaping,’ says Prof Ken O’ByrneMon Sept 25 2023 - 06:00
‘I felt like I was begging. The emotional toll is huge’: Family carers seek overhaul of decades-old allowance in BudgetPayment is ‘outdated’ and ‘inadequate’, Family Carers of Ireland saysMon Sept 25 2023 - 05:00
Stardust inquests: Former nightclub manager ‘devastated’ at ‘graphic’ descriptions of panic and chaos at exit doorsEamon Butterly tells inquest he was not aware of fire safety regulations at the time of fire.Fri Sept 22 2023 - 18:34
Stardust inquests: Former manager Eamon Butterly insists he instructed doormen not to lock emergency exitsPublic gallery full for evidence of Mr Butterly (78) into what happened on night of fatal 1981 blazeThu Sept 21 2023 - 18:54
Eamon Butterly profile: Most eagerly awaited Stardust fire witness to take the standFormer nightclub manager, who previously said blaze was started maliciously, has not spoken publicly about the disaster for decadesThu Sept 21 2023 - 06:00
Disability welfare payments reform plan: recipients to be divided into three ‘tiers’Q&A: Claimants will be required to be open to reasonable offers of employment and will have scope for appealing decisionsWed Sept 20 2023 - 19:34
Radical overhaul of disability welfare payments proposed Plan to categorise people into one of three separate levels depending on severity of their disabilityWed Sept 20 2023 - 06:00
Stardust waitresses last in area where fire was first seen saw ‘nothing suspicious’‘I was a 16-year-old waitress. How would I know if doors were being unlocked or locked?’ one witness saidTue Sept 19 2023 - 16:44
Stardust inquests: Local man saw fire from nightclub before those inside knew of itFresh inquests being held into deaths of 48 young people in February 1981 fireFri Sept 15 2023 - 15:43
Stardust doorman says he was not ‘used’ to cover-up locked emergency exitsMichael Kavanagh changed his account of doors after the fire that killed 48 people in 1981Thu Sept 14 2023 - 15:49
Former Stardust doorman knew ‘attempts were being made’ to blame him for locking of doorsMichael Kavanagh was speaking from witness box of the inquest into the fatal 1981 nightclub fireWed Sept 13 2023 - 14:29
Stardust doorman retracted ‘lies’ to gardaí as he feared being ‘made a scapegoat’Michael Kavanagh’s girlfriend at the time, Paula Byrne (19), was among those killed in the fireTue Sept 12 2023 - 18:13
Budget 2024: Welfare for poorest and taxes for richest ‘must increase’Budget 2024: Social Justice Ireland calls for €25 hike in weekly social welfare rates and child benefit to rise by €50 a monthMon Sept 11 2023 - 10:07
Mother (80s) and son (50s) who died in Cavan house fire named locallyKathleen and Michael Lynch described as ‘family steeped in our club and our community’ by local GAA clubSun Sept 10 2023 - 19:31
Judge calls for mandatory legal aid in some family law cases regardless of income Judge John Campbell was addressing conference on domestic violence and child protection, and criticised planned family law court building in DublinFri Sept 08 2023 - 21:49
Stardust inquests: Head doorman believed ‘everything worked well’ with emergency exitsTestimony from Tom Kennan, who is dead, was read into the record at inquests into the deaths at Dublin coroner’s court on ThursdayThu Sept 07 2023 - 16:03
Former Stardust barman accused of making up story of leading dozens to safetyLaurence Neville, who was 25 at the time of the disaster, was told it was ‘very hard to find’ patrons he had helpedWed Sept 06 2023 - 20:26
Stardust witness says he will not change account ‘to suit what Joe Brolly wants’ David Bridgeman, who was part-time barman on night of the fire, tells inquest he was able to easily open emergency exit 4 to change beer kegsTue Sept 05 2023 - 20:54
Stardust inquests resume with nightclub manager expected to appear this monthHearings reopen into deaths of 48 people who died in fire 42 years agoMon Sept 04 2023 - 21:15
‘Until the issue of the social contract is taken seriously, we are going to see the persistence of the poverty, the homelessness, the exclusion’Priest, economist and campaigner Dr Seán Healy delivers a parting shot at the Government as he retires from his role at the head of independent think-tank Social Justice IrelandSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:00
More than 500,000 adults live with their parents, latest census results showNumber of people aged 18 and over living with parents is up 19% on 2011 but the proportion of adults so cohabiting remains the sameThu Aug 31 2023 - 17:56
About one-third of children in Ireland attend childcare, census findsThis is the first time households were asked about their childcare arrangements in the censusThu Aug 31 2023 - 16:13
More than 600 undocumented migrants waiting over a year for decision on their status Applicants led to believe they would receive a decision within 3-6 months under the ‘once in a generation’ schemeMon Jul 31 2023 - 00:01
Report on Camhs failings ‘validates experiences’ of young people trying to access service, says advocateInspector says she cannot assure parents HSE’s child and adolescent mental health service is ‘safe and effective’Thu Jul 27 2023 - 05:00
Children will be ‘lost’ as youth mental health services ‘creaking at the seams’Services led with ‘poor governance’, characterised by ‘failure to manage risk, failure to fund and recruit key staff’, says Mental Health Commission chairThu Jul 27 2023 - 05:00
Camhs: At risk-children will remain vulnerable to being ‘disappeared’ in Ireland unless attitudes changeDr John Hillery was speaking at the publication of the devastating report on how Camhs is failing children and their familiesWed Jul 26 2023 - 19:46
HSE child mental healthcare: Inspector ‘cannot assure parents that services are safe and effective’Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service ‘is creaking at the seams, with increasing risk to children’, review findsWed Jul 26 2023 - 12:00
Children alleging sexual assaults in one of State’s poorest areas waiting over a year for social worker assessmentsTusla staff ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ when trying to allocate insufficient resources, Hiqa report findsWed Jul 26 2023 - 09:00
‘I’ve enjoyed having a pint of Guinness, seeing family and friends, and Irish humour’Dubliner held for seven months in prison says he and his family have received no practical support from Irish, French and EU authoritiesMon Jul 24 2023 - 18:11
McDonald’s to investigate claims by Ciara Mangan of workplace abuse after she was rapedShane Noonan (28) jailed for eight years last week for rape of Ms Mangan (28) at house party in Mayo in 2013Sat Jul 22 2023 - 12:02
Rape survivor Ciara Mangan: ‘Everybody in work knew I was raped and it was the joke of the day’Ciara Mangan says one person speaking out against taunts in workplace would have ‘saved her’ from months of tortureFri Jul 21 2023 - 18:08
Almost two-thirds of children in care in parts of southeast not allocated social workerIn some of the poorest parts of Dublin more than a third of children in care are awaiting allocation of a social worker, Tusla figures showThu Jul 20 2023 - 19:53
‘Very likely’ many of the 796 babies’ remains at Tuam grave will never be identifiedDaniel Mac Sweeney, leading the exhumation, says process will operate at ‘limits of forensic science’Thu Jul 20 2023 - 00:01
Dozens of people take part in anti-asylum seeker protests in south DublinGardaí maintain presence at demonstrations held by groups in Ballybrack village and Dún LaoghaireWed Jul 19 2023 - 20:52
Rock thrown through window of councillor’s family home with warning to ‘stop supporting refugees’Father (78) of councillor, who lives alone in Ballybrack house, shaken by attack but says he won’t ‘give in to those people’Tue Jul 18 2023 - 21:03
‘Matter of time’ before young adults leaving care take legal action against State, advocate warnsRetired District Court judge intervenes in ‘unprecedented crisis’ in services for children most at riskMon Jul 17 2023 - 20:05
Teenage girl with ‘troubled history’ left in hotel after abrupt eviction from care placement, report findsChild law reports highlight vulnerability of at-risk children, with one judge referring to ‘systemic deficiencies and failings’Mon Jul 17 2023 - 00:01
Up to 130 vulnerable children at risk due to ‘unprecedented crisis’ in State care services, says retired judge Former District Court judge warns of likelihood of claims against State due to ‘systemic failures’ across Tusla, Garda, Department of Education, HSE and Prison ServiceMon Jul 17 2023 - 00:01
Stardust inquests break after significant evidence that was confusing and compellingKey questions are where the fire at the 1981 Artane disco started, whether the exits were locked, and whether there was a conspiracy to direct the narrativeSat Jul 15 2023 - 00:01
Stardust emergency exits ‘were locked’ on night of fire, inquests hearInquest hears how nightclub doors were sealed due to suspicions around people being let in for less than full priceFri Jul 14 2023 - 19:00
Stardust inquests: Senior doorman told his junior to leave emergency exits lockedLeo Doyle was giving evidence for a third day on Thursday at the inquests into the deaths of the 48 people on 14th February 1981Thu Jul 13 2023 - 19:06
Stardust fire: Doormen and management ‘conspired’ to tell gardaí ‘untruths’, inquests hearSenior doorman at time of disaster faces second day of robust examination over the 48 deathsWed Jul 12 2023 - 19:05
