Event will include performances by musicians such as Christy Moore, violinist Zoe Conway and uileann piper Kevin Rowsome
Families of the Stardust survivors and victims outside Government Buildings in April after the Taoiseach Simon Harris gave a formal apology for years of State failures. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins PhotosThe President will lay a wreath on behalf of the Irish people at the event in the Gardens of Remembrance to commemorate the 48 people, aged 16 to 27, who died as a result of a fire in the north Dublin nightclub in the early hours of 14th February, 1981.
She and others were unhappy with a number of issues, including an apparent lack of progress on establishment of a redress scheme; inclusion of the tragedy in school curricula; and a Garda review of the case.Stardust remembrance ceremony to take place in June, who confirmed a senior counsel would be appointed in coming days to head a redress scheme. This would be established in a number of phases, she added.
Floral tributes will be laid by families in the Garden pool, with extracts from pen portraits delivered at the inquests’ opening last year read aloud. In a statement last month he said when he had met the families in Government Buildings in advance of the State apology he had committed to holding a “special remembrance ceremony”.
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