Episode 122: The Stardust fire
Disaster Area
Disaster Area
4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
It's St. Valentine's Day weekend, and love is in the air. Young people throughout northern Dublin flocked to the Stardust in 1981, drawn by the promise of a disco dancing competition to start at one in the morning. But within an hour of people gathering around the dance floor to start the contest, all eight hundred people in the Stardust would be fighting for their lives against a deadly inferno.
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