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A montage of the 48 people who died in the Stardust fire in Artane in Dublin.
Speaking on behalf of Derry's Bloody Sunday March Committee, its chairperson, Kate Nash, said their 'thoughts and hearts' went out to the Stardust families.
Ms Nash was speaking in the wake of Thursday's Stardust inquests which delivered the verdicts that all 48 died by 'unlawful killing'.
The inquest heard that most of those who died on St Valentine's night 1981, did so from rapid incapacitation due to the inhalation of fumes and heat.
Speaking to Derry News, Ms Nash said: "Our thoughts and hearts go out to the Stardust families.
"It's the persistence of the mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters in turn, which in the end has forced the truth about the Stardust atrocity out into the open.
"The families can feel content that they left nothing undone in the search for the truth of how their loved ones met their deaths. They have had a long, hard road of it.
"It was clear from the evidence that the Stardust fire wasn't entirely an accident. That's a matter for the families to take up if they choose.
"Whatever they decide, everybody in Ireland is already in their debt," said Kate Nash.
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