“I then went from one exit to another on the east side trying to assist people out of the club and to keep others who were trying to get back into look for friends, out,” said Mr Murphy.Ĭoroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, at the end of Wednesday’s hearings, said she was “aware” that “certain content” had been “very distressing for families present and watching remotely. I could not get in because the flames were blowing off the wall and coming from the roof and the heat was intense. “I saw another girl run towards the door but she fell further inside and was burned. When we got her out she appeared to be dead. got down on our bellies, crawled in and pulled her out. “As I looked in I saw a young girl run towards the door through the flames and she fell about four feet inside the door. The place was engulfed in flames and I could see a couple of feet into the building. He looked in and “was amazed to see the fire had spread so rapidly across the ballroom. ” He got sick and left though the exit there.Īt one exit outside he found people lifting a man out who “appeared to be badly burnt”. “I was overcome by fumes and smoke and made my way to the door leading to kitchen and the. “The fire looked very small at this time.” He returned with a fire-extinguisher seconds later and the fire was “all along the tops of the seats at the back wall”.
He pulled back a blind and saw the “top of a back of a seat was on fire”. Mr Murphy told gardaí in 1981 he had been approached by a woman in her 20s at about 1.45am who said: ‘They’ve started a fire in the corner’, pointing to a partitioned area known as the west alcove. This follows a 2019 recommendation by then attorney general Séamus Woulfe that they be opened. It is hearing fresh inquests into the deaths of the 48 people who died in the north Dublin venue in the early hours of 14th February 1981, at the Pillar Room on the campus of the Rotunda hospital. Testimony from Stardust doorman, Patrick J Murphy, now dead, was read into the record at Dublin coroner’s court. Descriptions of failed attempts to save people from the 1981 Stardust fire, in which 48 young people died, described as “very distressing”, were heard at inquests into the deaths on Wednesday.
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