On Thursday, a jury at the Dublin District Coroner’s Court returned majority verdicts for the people who perished in the city’s 1981 Stardust nightclub disaster.
The accident resulted in more than 200 injuries.
The attorney general of Ireland ordered new inquests into the deaths in 2019, but they didn’t start until last year. They are the longest-running in the country’s history.
Following eleven days of deliberation, the jury—consisting of seven women and five men—delivered its decision on Thursday.
The verdict caused some of the victims’ relatives to leap to their feet and applaud, while others were moved to tears as they remained seated there.
