'Public Revelation': High Court battles over the Stardust Inquests

The High Court has examined competing legal arguments concerning the scope of verdicts available to the jury in the resumed inquest into the deaths of 48 people at the Stardust nightclub fire in February 1981. The fresh proceedings, which commenced in April 2023 at Dublin Coroner's Court, were ordered following a 2019 direction by the then Attorney General that the original 1982 inquiry had insufficiently examined…