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The word 'Stardust' can be defined as a cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust, indeed the answers to this tragedy, including why it occurred and why it was dealt with in the way it was ( or not) seem to be like a distant cluster of dust.

The main contention surrounding the outcome of this horrific night is how the Butterly family seemed to come out of the situation relatively unscathed and in apologetic, while 25 men and 23 women died in the fire, eleven others badly disfigured or disabled and 214 people were injured, nobody is suggesting that it was in any way intentional of their part, indeed it is often overlooked that several Butterly family members worked in the night club. However the reckless attitude with the management of the night club approached fire safety would leave one reasonably pondering their competence and how they were allowed to continue to do business in the door step industry, it is utterly incomprehensible that there were no charges brought against butterly for locking or otherwise obstructing exit doors on the night of the fire. To me this alone (that is not even taking into account the explosive contents and quantities of the said contents which were in the unauthorised store room. The materials in the structure of the building such as the lead windows in the bathroom and the roof tiles, which must have made if feel like it was raining acid when the flames took over, I could go on.......) was more than a "reckless disregard for the safety of the people on the premises. I would go so far to say that this could be regarded at a wilful refusal to perform a legal duty - a finding which would bring butterly's omission into the ambit of involuntary manslaughter.

So why was nobody prosecuted? Why was the only charge from the disaster against John Keegan, (who lost two daughters) in the stardust for assault on Butterly, in his understandably frustrated state? (with Niall Mc Carthy) a future supreme court Judge) and peter Sunderland (the future Attorney General) at his Butterly's side for the tribunal, what chance did any of the families have in achieving JUSTICE.

"We were all Fianna Failers" Butterley said in his memoirs.

The Butterely family for years up to 14th Feb, 1981 were business royality in Dublin. Patrick Butterely in his autobiography "From Radiches to Riches" submits that he dined with Government Ministers and that Kevin Boland, the then Minister for Industry & Commerce joined Butterly for a coffee and a chat nearly every morning, another interesting FF connection was Jack Lynch who asked Butterly to join Taca, the Fianna Fail fundraising initiative for wealthy business men. "We were all Fianna Failers" Butterly said in his memoirs.

He even goes so far as to concede that "what you had these people for, was to help get things....If you wanted to know something about your business or you wanted someone who could do something you didn't get the answers by writing into the papers, you asked these people.

What must frighten us today is that this family are still in the service industry;- Public House (The Silver Swan) on Georges Quay in Dublin and now on the spot of the doomed nightclub, how could they open this on the night of the 25th anniversary, of all those people's deaths, the average of who might I add was 19?. There is a sensitivity chip missing there, a betting shop, a petrol station to name but three the numerous butterly Companies whose profits run into double figure millions, need not be trawled through now but the case with which the surname seems to get one planning permission, the most recent of which is a residential development comprising 27 apts. On the swords Road, (to Patrick Butterly & Sons) Butterly Business Park, Kilmore Road, Artane, Dublin 5 on the 11.11.05, just does not smell right to me.

Indeed i have good reason to get a stench this is something rotten in the state of Ireland and I believe its initials are FF.