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  Relatives of the victims of the Stardust fire are being means tested for legal aid for the forthcoming inquests, which is causing “huge hurt” and risks creating division among families, the Seanad has been told. Sinn Féin Senator Lynn Boylan highlighted the concerns of families, a number of whom demonstrated outside Leinster House on Monday in protest over the means testing and the delay in funding of legal aid for families. The Government pledged €8.2 million in funding for the inquests in Budget 2021. The inquests into the deaths of 48 young people in the Stardust ballroom in Artane, in the early hours of the February 14th, 1981, are due to take place at the RDS in Dublin later this year and are expected to last several months.

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