Govt to consider DNA tests on unidentified Stardust victims
26/06/2006 - 10:48:03Survivors of the Stardust disaster have welcomed the news that the Government will consider carrying out DNA tests on the five remaining unidentified victims of the fire.
In a letter to the Stardust Victims Committee, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has promised to seek expert advice on the matter once an exhumation licence in granted.
Forty-eight young people died in the fire that gutted the Stardust nightclub in the Artane area of north Dublin on St Valentine's Day, 1981.
Antoinette Keegan, a spokesperson for the Stardust Victims Committee, said today that the families of the unidentified victims were relieved that they may finally have closure after 25 years of limbo.
