The horrific fire in February 1981 claimed the lives of 48 young people
Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham has opened up about his frantic search for his sister, Maria, on the night of the Stardust fire.
"[I remember] hearing these noises and thinking, what the hell is that? And then being woken up. One of the neighbours had knocked at our door to say there had been a fire in the Stardust," he said. "I hopped on the bike and I went straight to the Mater Hospital. And it was carnage. It was like Vietnam.
And one of the nurses came over to him, and he was just holding his hands up....she said to him, "look, come over here. I'll look after you."Liam recalls meeting a friend who knew his sister and he told him he had seen her being put into the back of a squad car. "And she punched me in the chest. It was the weirdest thing. She just punched me in the chest, and she called me a liar because she'd been listening to the news reports and was convinced that there was hundreds dead and her daughter was dead. And I had to fend her off. And I just said, 'she's fine. I can't hang around with you. I've told you first. I haven't even told me mom.
Saying it was ‘exactly like’ what happened to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster, where the victims were blamed, he added: "It took them so many years to be exonerated purely... because they were working class."
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