A survivor described three men running repeatedly at chained door to try to ‘burst’ it open
has described putting out flames on people who were “on fire” as they emerged from the burning venue in which 48 people died in 1981.
Mark Swaine, 18 at the time of the disaster, became upset as his original 1981 Garda statement was read into the record. Coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane asked if he was “alright” adding: “It’s difficult I know because it brings it all back to mind.”Stardust inquests: ‘I thought I was going to die.
“The panic started at that stage.” There was a “lot of coughing the smoke became black very quickly”. The exit burst open and there was a van parked with its rear almost flush with steps. Television news footage taken at the scene on the night appearing to show him up a ladder at one of the windows, was shown. Des Fahy, KC for the families of nine of the dead, asked what he had seen “on the other side” of the windows: “I remember seeing hands ... It was very smoky in there but there was people in there.”Asked what preventing them, Mr Swaine said: “There was bars there, wrought iron kind of bars, a bit of mesh, but there was no way.
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