This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Maurice and Phyllis McHugh who lost their only child, Caroline, in the 1981 Stardust disaster protest outside the Dail.
They joined other families calling on the Department of Justice to grant legal aid for inquests into the deaths of their relatives.
Via RTE News:
The matter was raised in the Seanad by Sinn Féin Senator Lynn Boylan who said the legal aid route was not suitable and families should not be means tested as it was causing “huge hurt” and risks sewing division between families.
In response, Minister of State for Public Health Frank Feighan told the Seanad that some families exceed the income limits enforced by the legal aid board….
Call for Stardust families to be granted legal aid for inquests (RTÉ)
Disgraceful that this fight for justice is still going on, legal aid is the least these families deserve.
The names of those who hushed up the causes of this tragedy in earlier days should be highlighted. Some of them are/were quite eminent.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.