A survivor of the blaze will recall how his parents located him in a hospital but didn't recognise him due to the extent of his injuries
Families of the Stardust victims will tonight recount the pain of identifying their loved ones’ remains and attending multiple funerals in the aftermath of the tragic blaze.
He said: “Mam and dad were going from hospital to hospital, but the nuns were frantic trying to give out the names and getting confused. They were looking for James Fitzpatrick where everyone knew me as Jimmy Fitzpatrick. Pat Dunne’s brother Brian Hobbs was working in a hotel on the night of the fire but was allowed to finish early so he could support his friend in the dance competition at the Stardust. His relatives didn’t know he had gone.
“They were searching for a person, rather than what was there, so the young guard then said to Peter, ‘I think you should settle for what’s there,’ and he rang me then and he said, ‘We found him, he’s here.’” Tonight’s episode will also show archive footage of the huge number of funerals in the northside of Dublin following the disaster.
“And a lot of people were regular ordinary people that accepted what they had found initially because they were experts you see, we weren’t.”
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