The former floor manager of the club was allegedly heard speaking to a person off camera who said the doors in the nightclub were locked on the night of the fire. It is alleged that the witness replied: “It’s nothing to do with me so I’m not saying that.”
DURING A RECESS at the Stardust inquest today, it is alleged the former floor manager of the club was heard on microphone speaking to a person off camera who said the doors in the nightclub were locked on the night of the fire.The incident happened as Phelim Kinahan was giving his evidence remotely to the Dublin Coroner’s Court sitting in the Pillar Room of the Rotunda Hospital, during an inquest into the blaze that swept through the Stardust ballroom in the early hours of February 14, 1981.
Earlier in the day, Kinahan said that he did not remember the doors being locked in the Stardust. Fahy said that the inquest will hear evidence from the head doorman, who will say that he was given a direction around midnight to open all the other exit doors which had been locked up to that point.Fahy asked, if every door was locked at some point, was that part of or against the policy in place at time.
He said that the deposition indicated that Kinahan said that he believed the doors were locked, but in a handwritten version of the same statement he said the doors were unlocked. Kinahan replied that the impression given was that the doors were locked because there was a chain over the bar.
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