Former doorman at nightclub at time of February 1981 tragedy was ‘blaming the patrons for not being able to get out’, counsel for some of the families suggest
He agreed on Tuesday that he had the “impression” in the days after the tragedy that more senior staff members were to be involved in “formulating” employees’ Garda statements, and on Wednesday he accepted that his statements gave an “incomplete” picture of what had happened at exit five.
Mr O’Higgins told Mr Furley on Thursday that he wanted to “highlight the differences between what they are saying and what you are saying” and to invite him to “accept” that the position they set out was “the true position”. Mr O’Higgins said opening an emergency exit was “a very simple process” and the idea that at none of the “five or six” at exit five would know to push the emergency bar to open it was “ridiculous”.
This “appears to be blaming the patrons for not being able to get out of the Stardust,” said Mr O’Higgins.“The problem for the clients I represent is you are blaming the patrons for the problem at the door and that’s not true,” Mr O’Higgins added.
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