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THE FIRST SIGNS of summer are definitely here.
Top temperatures are due to linger just below 20 degrees for the remainder of the long weekend, although the forecast isn’t as predictable for the west of the country.
Met Éireann says today will remain dry with temperatures as high as 22 degrees, with a calm night ahead with some mist and fog forming.
These conditions will clear into Saturday and temperatures of between 17 and 22 degrees are likely, but cloudy conditions will prevail in Connacht and west and north Ulster, where it will be cooler with some light rain along the coast.
After another foggy night, Met Éireann warns there is a “high degree of uncertainty” in the forecast for western areas due to “an uncertainty in the positioning of a slow moving frontal system which is battling against the high pressure to the east”.
Temperatures will remain high on Sunday, but scattered rain is likely in southwestern, western and northwestern coastal fringes.
The west will remain cloudy on Monday with sunny conditions in the rest of the country, albeit with the risk of some showers. Top temperatures will range from 14 to as high as 19 degrees.
The weather will be more unsettled from Tuesday – but let’s just enjoy the weekend first, right?
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The truth won’t be made public until those who are responsible have passed away or are to old to be put in jail.
The ability of successive governments to NOT do the right thing is a stain on this country.
Give them a new inquest. This should have been done years ago. There is something dirty about this,there always has been.
Most of the key players at the time are no longer in positions of power thankfully. So like everyone in Artane, Coolock, Beaumont and surrounding areas know, the real reasons for this tragedy have never been fully publicised but are known. That family had some very powerful friends, some even showed up that night!!
@dB O’Neill: Utterly butterly…
What sort of grotesque echo chamber do senior civil servants occupy? Hieronymus Bosch couldn’t paint it, anyway, nor Dante describe it. Every generation in this country has its own Stardust. They are happening as we speak.
They at very least deserve a fresh hearing.
@John Murphy: I’ll tuck it back in if it upsets you, John. My one and only year in art college wasn’t a complete waste, then.
The Butterlys are to blame simple as .
I was only an infant when this happened but the stories in the area in my time were that oils were stored in a store room above the heads of the folks in the disco and they went on fire melting the roof and causing flaming oil to drop onto people trying to escape below. There were several fire exits chained closed because the group who ran the disco wanted to keep people from getting in without paying , the club was way beyond safe capacity there wasn’t any fire safety equipment and the materials in the seating were plastic and choked people once they started to escape. CJ Haughey was a close friend of the group who owned stardust and there have been ongoing rumours that some elements of the investigation were hidden or instructed to be ignored on senior government level instruction.
When people say to me “Its in the past, it won’t bring your loved one back”, then the word “Closure” comes to mind, there never will be closure for the families. But if we get the TRUTH maybe then we will get JUSTICE only then we will be at Peace.
Not one recommendation from the Stardust report has been enacted in to law. Have you ever entered a business that has double doors but one side is locked? No law against that!
Anyone wanna fill me in here. What do the families expect from a new inquest?
Why don’t they agree with the original inquest?
Was there a cover up?
Is there someone to blame that they want convicted ?
@Mumpsimus: The original inquests are incomplete, only the medical pathology reports were put forward at the Inquests. I was at my sisters inquest &horrific injuries were sustained by every one.
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