# EAMON BUTTERLY

This year

2023

Eamon Butterly tells Stardust inquest management at the club was not 'up to dealing with fire'

The former Stardust manager agreed with lawyers that the only preparation for the possibility of a fire at the club was that he would “ring the fire brigade”.

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Oct 6th 2023, 6:34 PM

# stardust inquests

Former Stardust boss accepts he was told 'in no uncertain terms' not to lock and chain doors

Eamon Butterly also told the inquest that he stands over his company’s malicious damage claim on the fire.

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Oct 5th 2023, 7:27 PM

# stardust inquest

Former Stardust manager tells inquest it was 'unsafe' to keep exit doors locked on disco nights

Eamon Butterly said ‘the consequences would be bad’ if the doors were locked during an emergency, but told the inquest that staff ‘would be keeping an eye on the doors’.

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Oct 4th 2023, 3:02 PM

# stardust inquest

Former Stardust manager tells inquest he regrets ‘converting that factory into a nightclub'

Eamon Butterly, in his fifth day as a witness at the inquests into the deaths of those who died in the fire, also denied that he had told ‘lies’ over ‘contradictory’ statements.

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Sep 28th 2023, 6:38 PM

# stardust inquests

Former Stardust boss 'agreed' with policy to keep exit doors locked for portion of nights

Eamon Butterly told the inquest the policy was the head doorman’s initiative and could not say how much of the policy he was “willing to own”.

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Sep 27th 2023, 7:45 PM

# stardust inquest

Former Stardust boss denies telling security guard exit doors were locked years before fire

Eamon Butterly also told the inquest he did not find out what surface spread of flame rating meant before carpet tiles were used on the walls of the nightclub.

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Sep 26th 2023, 7:59 PM

# EAMON BUTTERLY

Former Stardust boss denies 'throwing doorman under the bus' over locking of exit doors

A large number of eyewitness accounts, some graphic, of people attempting to escape the club during the blaze were put to Mr Butterly.

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Sep 22nd 2023, 5:52 PM

# EAMON BUTTERLY

Former Stardust manager gives evidence for the first time at inquests

Eamon Butterly is seen as crucial in determining the events of the night and the circumstances that led to the largest fire disaster in the history of the State.

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Sep 21st 2023, 6:48 PM

Last year

2022