Michael Kavanagh’s girlfriend at the time, Paula Byrne (19), was among those killed in the fire
Stardust victim Paula Byrne
“By this I mean I opened a padlock and chain that kept the doors closed. I put the chain back on one side of the door and locked the padlock. In that way the chain and lock were there when required to secure the door after the disco was over. I opened five exit doors and the entrance door to the disco club,” he said.
“A number of weeks ago a lot of people got into the disco at the Stardust through their friends opening the fire exits from the inside. Eamon Butterly, the boss, was mad over this and instructions came down from the top that on disco dance nights that the chains and locks were not to be removed from the double fire exit door so as to prevent people in the club from letting their friends in free through the fire exit doors.
The “correct story” he said was that he collected the keys to the exit doors’ padlocks from the Silver Swan bar office at about 9pm, and was going to open the them when, at about 9.40pm, the head doorman Leo Doyle “told me not to unlock them”.
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