The jurors in the Stardust inquests have begun their eighth day of deliberations as they continue to consider their verdicts into the 1981 disaster.
48 people died when a fire ripped through the Artane nightclub in February 1981.
The 12-person jury, made up of seven women and five men, initially retired to consider their verdicts on Wednesday 3 April.
They have spent a total of around 26 hours deliberating so far.
This morning in reply to a question from the jury, the coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, told them that they were “establishing facts”.
In all, these fresh inquests sat for 122 days and heard testimony from 370 witnesses.
They got under way last April after a direction from the Attorney General who said that there had been an insufficiency of inquiry at the original inquests which were held in 1982.
The move followed a sustained campaign by the families.
In her charge to the jury last month, the coroner told the jury that there were five verdicts open to them – accidental death, death by misadventure, unlawful killing, an open verdict or a narrative verdict.
The legal teams representing the families of the victims have previously urged the jury to return verdicts of unlawful killing.
