My little sis was at Stardust on night of fire ..Trying to find her was just horrific THRONES ACTOR LIAM RECALLS FRANTIC SEARCH

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“I hopped on the bike and I went straight to the Mater Hospital. And it was carnage. It was like Vietnam.

“There was just squad cars arriving, ambulances arriving. I remember being just overwhelmed in the middle of the night with the amount of things going on, the manic nature of it.”

Liam recalled meeting a friend who knew his sister and he told him he had seen her being put into the back of a squad car.

He eventually found her and a friend in Jervis Street Hospital where she was being treated for smoke inhalation.

“I stayed for two minutes, and I said, ‘I have to get home. They don’t know you’re okay. I have to get home.’”

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He stopped off on the way at the home of Maria’s friend to let them know she was okay.

“Her mother opened the door in her robe, and I just said, ‘look, I’ve just been to Jervis Street Hospital. I’ve seen Maria and Catherine. They’re okay.’

“And she punched me in the chest. It was the weirdest thing. She just punched me in the chest, and she called me a liar because she’d been listening to the news reports and was convinced that there was hundreds dead and her daughter was dead.

“And I had to fend her off. And I just said, ‘She’s fine. I can’t hang around with you. I’ve told you first. I haven’t even told me mom.’

“I hopped on the back of my bike. I ran in and told my mom, and then we had no way of getting the message to my dad, who was searching, and I didn’t know where he was.

“That was a pretty bad night, but it just got impossibly worse for the victims’ families. The first thing that everybody seemed to do was start finding excuses and trying to blame the people inside.”

Saying it was “exactly like” what happened to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster, where the victims were blamed, he added: “It took them so many years to be exonerated purely... because they were working class.”

Cunningham recalled a powerful speech by former RTÉ reporter Charlie Bird at the Stardust Memorial, who he said was “absolutely wonderful because he was on the scene that night.”

“He was fearless. Everybody was thinking it, but it took Charlie to say it.

“Charlie said: ‘If this had happened in Annabelle’s or anywhere around Dublin 4/6, the inquiries wouldn’t have been going on for 40, 50 years...’”

The new inquests into the Stardust deaths are due to begin on April 19.