Tina Brazil, 17 at the time of the disaster, became emotional at Dublin city coroner’s court, while recalling the fatal night with friends Catherine Moore and Carol Bisset (18) from Ringsend, who perished
Tina Brazil, 17 at the time of the disaster, became emotional at Dublin city coroner’s court, while recalling the fatal night with friends Catherine Moore and Carol Bisset , who perishedTina Brazil was giving evidence on day 72 of fresh inquests into the deaths of 48 people at the north Dublin nightclub in a fire in the early hours of February 14th, 1981.
Ms Brazil said: “I held Carol’s hand... I had her hand. Then I had her wrists and then it was like we broke away. I think I was carried forwards and she was carried back. There was too many people,” said Ms Brazil. She got out “either 5 or 4”. Referring again to the moment she lost Carol, she said: “She had a beautiful fur jacket. She kept saying, ‘My jacket Tina, my jacket,” and I said, “Catherine has them.” I don’t know what happened then because the lights just went out. When the lights went out that’s when everybody screamed.”
“Just as we came off the steps the lights went out.” Unable to see they ran first into railings around the side bar and then fell over chairs at exit 4. The inquests have previously heard testimony about chairs stacked at exit 4, hindering people’s free exit.