A white blouse, three sisters and the blaze that devastated a community – Stardust inquest hears of ‘unimaginable horror’ as closing submissions begin

“It started with a white blouse,” Des Fahy KC told jurors at the Stardust inquest today. The Keegan sisters were in the habit of buying something new for their nights out at the Stardust. Just before the catastrophic fire on February 14, 1981, Martina had bought two new blouses – one red and one white.

So when Antoinette had nothing new to wear going out that night, her younger sister Martina offered to lend her a new white blouse.