Stardust - Live from the Ruby Sessions

This is a song about a Dublin Tragedy. In 1981, there was a fire in a northside disco which claimed the lives of 48 young adults. Since then, the families of the victims have fought to get a full inquiry into what happened that night, in an attempt to come to terms with this terrible loss.

The thing that's most interesting to me is that it was a Valentine's night. I mean, they went out looking for love, but they "never came home".

Also, on the end of this video there's a cool live moment when I saw a friend of mine from years ago, Andrew Mann, in the crowd. I could have left it out, but I enjoy seeing those moments on videos of my favourite artists, so I thought you might be like-minded. Enjoy.

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• heffernan
• stardust
• families
• victims
• irish
• music
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• dublin
• tragedy

[harrrbo]

This is such a magical tribute , on the edge of genius , a true poet

[nerohardy222]

Brilliant song. never knew the fire was on feb 14th.

Rays a true Poet.

[tully5111helmets]

a girl from the stardust stayed at my parents b&b in tramore years ago,poor girl could not go out in the sun.i have christy moores "thet never came home" on cassette from the album "ride on" before it was served with an injunction to remove the song.he always sang it on tour when he was in london,domimion theatre and the royal albert hall,regards tom.

[Ggirl91]

you should mention that the fire was on valentines night. it was such a tragedy...there were so many underage people in there just too add to the sadness.

[dmio2]

nicely done. such a terrible tale.

[deadhippo]

Keep it up.

[ludwigsongs]

Excellent Stuff!

Christy Moore does a song called 'They never came home'... a girl i knew who i'd met in Butlins in 1978 died in that fire... the safety doors were chained!

[QueenOfWannabe87]

Thanks for great share Dion:)

A very beautiful performance!

[baldiepaul]

GOOD STUFF I LIKE IT