of opposition parties were united in their praise for the families and survivors of the 1981 tragedy.

Families who have fought for justice for their loved ones who died in the nightclub blaze met with Irish premier Simon Harris on Saturday.

Forty-eight young people died in a blaze that ripped through a nightclub in north Dublin in 1981.

The judge rejected Eamon Butterly's claim that the inquest could not make findings of unlawful killing

Myra Cullinane, the Dublin District Coroner, will simply be investigating the facts surrounding the deaths, and it is open to her to return a range of verdicts, including unlawful killing, her counsel Simon Mills SC told the court on Wednesday.