Evidence from Jack Walsh, who is dead, was read into the record at Dublin coroner’s court on Friday, where fresh inquests into the deaths of the 48 people are being heard
“Did you authorise that contravention?”Asked whether he was “conscious of the possibility that if [a] fire occurred, a crowd of young people, something like 800 young people packed into that, might be in sudden and grave danger?““Did you ever make any response against the practice of keeping the exit doors locked?”He said he was not aware “a squad” of staff should be trained in fire safety and had never thought of providing training “as to what they should do in the event of a fire”.
People were trying to remove the bars and steel plates. “There was still screaming and shouting. I remember saying to somebody, ‘You will never break down that steel shutter’. I came back round to the Lantern Room [restaurant] entrance and I remember saying to somebody, I don’t know who it was, ‘What the hell is keeping the fire engines?’
Mr Walsh was asked if he went to any other exits. “No, I was so disgusted with what I did see,” he answered.Evidence from bar manager Brian Peel, who is dead, was also read. He told the 1981 tribunal he was aware chains were being wrapped around emergency exit push-bars to make them appear locked, to dissuade people letting their friends in without paying. He “did not agree with it” and asked head doorman Tom Kennan about it.
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