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CHRISTY MOORE HAS paid tribute to the victims and survivors of the Stardust fire while appearing on the Late Late Show.
During an interview with Ryan Tubridy last night, Moore asked if he could sing They Never Came Home – a song he wrote for the 48 people who died in the 1981 tragedy.
Moore said he had been speaking to Christine Keegan, whose daughters Mary and Martina were killed in the fire, earlier in the day and wanted to dedicate the song to “the families of the victims of the Stardust”.
The song’s lyrics include:
Have we forgotten the suffering and pain
The survivors and victims of the fire in Artane,
The mothers and fathers forever to mourn
The 48 children who never came home
In the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 1981, a fire tore through the Stardust nightclub in Artane just after the conclusion of a disco dancing competition that had attracted crowds from all around the north Dublin community and beyond.
In all, 48 people were killed. More than 200 were wounded.
Survivors and victims’ families have long sought justice and an answer to what caused the fire.
After a renewed campaign in recent years, the Attorney General in September agreed to new inquests for the victims of the fire.
TheJournal.ie examines the fire and a 39-year fight for justice in its podcast Stardust.
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No wonder they’re only £1.29!
I don’t care, I’m having one as my mane course tonight…
So look’s like we’ve all been eating Horse meat for quite a while! Ah well haha
Only those who bought their meat processed and frozen instead of from a butcher…
If only you knew. Enjoy the mince meat
I won’t be eating Findus products furlong more after this!!
Horse related pun
Trot on son!
Shouldn’t be a problem for a watchdog should it? One big sniff of a sample and off he goes tail wagging vigorously.
I was suspicious after I had a dose of the trots ..
This just in: Tesco to pull Pedigree Chum due to reports it contains 90% beef.
1£29 for a kilo of lasagna the shitiest minced beef would cost around 4€/kg
And everyone is so surprised ! Mon dieu damn French ! Wake up if you want to know what you eat cook it yourself ! It’s not that hard !
Oh contraire you beast…
As long as it was only horse meat that was added!
I hope the cat isn’t out of the bag.
What a bunch of seriously challenged people that believe this fraud and reputational damage is a cause for childish humor.
When the European consumers quite naturally decide that they can no longer trust processed foodstuffs purporting to contain beef then some five to seven thousand Irish jobs will disappear overnight and your pathetic jokes will look as foolish as they are now.
The real problem is the free access people have to serious journalism by way of commentary and simplest with which this can be viewed instantly around the world.
We do tend to make ourselves look rather unconcerned and silly!
The Irish beef industry has only itself to blame.
Richard you’re gas.
By gas I mean…
Awww why don’t you go along and get ****** you self righteous pompus *****.
You must be the saddest person in the country with nothing to do in life except troll .
People are sick to the teeth with your constant insults.
@ Dicky Dodger, you remind me of the nether region of a horse. Giddy up boy.
Richard, you are show jumping to conclusions.
You do realise that product in question was French and nothing to do work Irish beef ? Obviously not.
? Why the Irish beef industry has nothing to do with it ? Please explain further
2 reasons:
If a product is sold as 100% Irish beef the industry as a whole should be making sure it is.
Larry goodman. Happy to export Irish beef and import polish horse without any checks on the origin of the meat.
Anyone who imports goes to the source of the product to check standards, working conditions, quality control. Why didn’t silvercrest do this?
This has tainted the Irish beef industry internationally, an industry that didn’t do enough to protect itself (again).
You might have a point last week on the burgers but those lasagna have nothing Irish produced in Luxembourg with French supplied “meat”
IMO it’s a European problem with all the rules quotas and controls established by the eu members we shouldn’t have to check what’s been produced in the Eurozone !
One more point I think if the Irish and English didn’t kick a can of worm with advanced DNA testing we probably would have never find out so I think it s a credit to the Irish beef industry to be ahead of their European counterpart in quality control !
It wasn’t the beef industry, it was the food safety board.
Dies anyone remember the foot and mouth crisis and the farmers who illegally moved their cattle, risking the entire industry for a quick buck? Remember the angel dust convictions?
Now we can add untraceable imported horse meat, slaughtered with no regulations or monitoring.
Why are we importing beef products we have a perfectly good Irish supply why not use that only and tax the arse off a company that wants to import their beef?
A watchdog looking for horsemeat… Hmmmm
I could tackle a burger!
I’d day we done all the horse puns by now
Kenny to the Nation ” Let them eat horse”
I was in Tesco yesterday & saw Findus packs in cool shelfs. I said to them…..hi but I’m not taking you home!
In the words of the virgin mary, come again???
I need a pint after that.
I suppose they are going to tell us fish don’t have fingers & chickens don’t have balls !!!
Ahh come on now.. shurely der part of a stable diet?
Someone was making hay while the horse whined
Sounds like it might be 100% Irish :p
@Peter, go home before they eat all that straw.. You sound a bit horsey to me…
So what are we actually consuming and who do we believe? As the consumer we are taken for a ride again.. ( no pun intended). Why do we put up with this BS? I personally WILL NOT eat horse meat, nor dog , nor rat or cat etc… So why should I be lied to and accept what ever I read is fact? it’s fk disgraceful and I am so peed off about this whole thing. What a wasteful society we humans are.
The Irish will swallow anything.
That’s what happened to the horse that was took to France
Equus; The Pie
Most of us are in the paddock but only a few are in the saddle
They Shoot Horses; Don’t they
I notice that the article was posted at T time. Ummm interesting.
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