Our exclusive pictures show Butterly, 79, back outside his plush gated home in North Co Dublin - almost a month after a jury found that all 48 victims of the infamous 1981 nightclub fire were unlawfully killed
Stardust nightclub manager Eamon Butterly kept silent as he was spotted for the first time since the unlawful killing verdict last month.
READ MORE: Sister of Stardust victim put black candle on Charlie Haughey's grave because he 'covered up' tragedy “I don’t even want to talk about him. The only thing I am happy with is we got the truth anyway. I have no comment about him,” she said. During the lengthy inquest into the deaths, Mr Butterly rejected repeated invitations by Des Fahy, KC for families of nine of the dead, to revise his position that all six exits had been opened at about 11.30pm on the night by head doorman, the late Thomas Kennan.
Mr O’Higgins claimed that Mr Butterly’s accounts of crucial events before, after and on the night of the disaster were “completely vague”, “contradictory” and “not founded on truth”. Mr O’Higgins asked why the witness had told Gardaí the policy of draping chains over exits’ push bars had been in place for three weeks, when it had been policy for years - claiming it was “self serving” and “untrue,” and said to “mislead the guards”.
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