Those who died in the Stardust fire tragedy have been written into the history books, the Taoiseach said, as a State ceremony honoured the victims and survivors.
Hundreds of people attended the ceremony of commemoration, which was led by President Michael D Higgins, at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin.Co-designed with the families of the victims, the ceremony also remembered all those who helped victims and their families on the night and over the years since.
Family members also laid a wreath for each of the 48 victims on the water in the cruciform pool while the names of victims and extracts from their pen portraits were read out. "So many people here today, and many who sadly did not live to see today, never gave up fighting for the memory of their loved ones.
Author Roddy Doyle read a piece he composed especially for the ceremony entitled Names while violinist Zoe Conway performed Be Thou My Vision.
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