The inquests heard that four fire extinguishers were not visible when a curtain, used to close off sections of the club on quiet nights, was down
THE STARDUST INQUESTS in the Dublin Coroner’s Court have heard from its first witnesses today as the process progresses from pen portraits of victims to testimony from families, management, fire personnel and gardaí.
Today’s sitting of the inquest began with a reading of testimony from Dermot King, the senior building surveyor at the Dublin Corporation planning department in the mid-1970s.King, who has since passed away and whose statement was made during a previous tribunal into the Stardust fire, described receiving an application for planning in February 1976 for permission to convert part of a factory building in Artane into what would become the Stardust Nightclub, an adjoining pub and a restaurant.
I have no knowledge of when steel plates and bars were fitted to the toilet windows. He was asked by a barrister during the previous tribunal about an inspection of the Stardust on January 15, 1981, in which it was noted that an exit passageway at the side of the stage was obstructed and there was overcrowding in the cabaret room. Mr King confirmed that this constituted “a very serious infringement of the bylaws”.
Brenda Cambell KC, acting on behalf of the families of nine of the deceased, asked Mr Armstrong who had decided where the extinguishers were to be located. He replied that a previous sales rep with his company would have told the management the best location to put them. “No, it was never said to me. If it was said to me, I would have suggested they move them forward,” replied Mr Armstrong.
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