The jury in the Stardust inquests have been deliberating for a third day on verdicts into the deaths of the 48 people who lost their lives in the 1981 fire.
Earlier, the coroner told the jurors that it was not part of their function to determine civil or criminal liability, or to identify any persons as being responsible for the deaths.
Dr Myra Cullinane also said the jury’s findings cannot be used in any other legal cases and said the jurors must put aside consideration of anything else other than the process in which they are engaged.
“You are only concerned with these inquests,” she said.
She made her comments after the jury asked if their findings could be used in any subsequent legal proceedings.
The court has heard how the jury has been given a questionnaire to be filled out dealing with each individual victim, and another set of questions dealing with the circumstances of the fire.
The coroner told the jurors that the sole purpose of the two questionnaires was to record how the deceased met their deaths.
In response to another query from the jury, the coroner said when the jurors come to answering a question on contributing factors to the spread of the fire, they must deem them “significant” and not minor and must be based on evidence.
The jury retired to begin considering their verdicts two days ago and have so for deliberated for over seven and-a-half hours.
The coroner has previously told the jurors that five potential verdicts are available: 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.
The proceedings at the Dublin District Coroner’s Court, which is sitting in the Pillar Room on the grounds of the Rotunda Hospital, began last April following a lengthy campaign by relatives.
In all, the inquests have sat for 122 days and heard testimony from over 370 witnesses, including former staff at the club, survivors, emergency responders and fire experts.
