The families of those killed, survivors and senior politicians will attend the event on Sunday

The state remembrance ceremony in honour 48 people who died in the 1981 Stardust disaster will take place on Sunday.

The actor said he was supposed to be in the nightclub on the night of the fatal fire.

Stardust campaigner Antoinette Keegan said former taoiseach Charlie Haughey’s son Sean ‘shouldn’t have spoke’ to the Dáil

Simon Harris also said he will write a personal letter of apology to each of the families.

Ms Keegan said that former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey had caused a lot of damage when he called for a tribunal on the day that her sisters Mary and Martina were being buried.

Campaigners sat silently in the visitors’ gallery to hear what politicians had to say about their four-decade fight for justice.

Members of opposition parties were united in their praise for the families and survivors of the 1981 tragedy.

Simon Harris has apologised on behalf of the State to the families of the victims who died in the Dublin Stardust fire tragedy.

Here, we have a look at the topics likely to dominate political debate in the week to come

Forty-eight people were killed when the blaze ripped through the the Dublin nightclub in 1981.

Families who have fought for justice for their loved ones who died in the nightclub blaze met with Irish premier Simon Harris on Saturday.

Forty-eight young people died in a blaze that ripped through a nightclub in north Dublin in 1981.

Simon Harris said he hopes to meet with the families on Saturday.

Susan Behan, whose brother John Colgan was among those killed, said the Government should issue an official state apology.

A sister of one of the victims said in the wake of the verdicts: ‘We’ve got truth, we’ve got the justice’

The inquest into the deaths of 48 people in a fire at the Stardust nightclub on February 14th, 1981 was the longest in the history of the State

Verdicts of unlawful killing were returned in the deaths of 48 people who died in the blaze

Families gave a standing ovation to the jury, which returned a verdict of unlawful killing for the 48 people who died in the Stardust fire

The former manager of the Stardust nightclub sought to challenge decisions made by Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane to allow the inquest's jury to return a verdict of unlawful killing

The verdicts were delivered at Dublin Coroner’s Court, sitting in the Pillar Home at the Rotunda Hospital, on Thursday afternoon

Forty eight people died in the blaze at the Dublin nightclub on St Valentine’s Day in 1981.

Forty-eight people died in a fire at the nightclub in Artane, north Dublin, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 1981.

A total of 48 people died in the fire in north Dublin on Valentine’s Day 1981.

The fire in Artane in north Dublin broke out in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 1981.

The inquest into the 48 deaths in north Dublin in 1981 began in April last year and has heard evidence from 373 people.

The inquest into the deaths began in April last year and has heard evidence from 373 people

Closing speeches in the inquest before the Dublin District Coroner's Court continued on Friday

Michael O’Higgins SC said that the credibility of Stardust manager Eamon Butterly had been “shredded beyond redemption” during the inquest

The chief fire officer of Dublin Fire Brigade, Dennis Keeley, is the final witness to be called at the Stardust inquest

Dr Hutchinson confirmed to Séan Guerin SC, representing a number of the families of the victims, that expert electrical reports identified defects in the electrical installation in the Stardust.

Fire investigator and forensic scientist Dr Will Hutchinson gave evidence at the inquest on Monday

It is hard to conceive “the scale and enormity” of the effects of losing three family members in the Stardust fire, an inquest jury has heard

Dr Cullinane said that this evidence would be very difficult for the victims’ families to hear.

The inquest has concluded for the year and will resume on January 9th

Detective Superintendent Courtney’s evidence to the tribunal and his 1981 garda statements were read into the record on Monday at Dublin District Coroner’s Court.

The inquest heard evidence from former firefighters on Thursday

A fireman has told the Stardust inquest of finding the bodies of two young victims “fused together” with their "arms around each other"

The statement of Stephen Keogh was read out by a member of the coroner’s legal team.

The jury heard that the couple and their two children were due to move to Kerry the day after the fire, for Eugene to start work with Ms Hogan’s father as a cabinet maker.

Jimmy Fitzpatrick spent more than three and a half months in hospital with third degree burns to his body

Yvonne Blackwell gave evidence on Thursday along with sisters Ann and Finola Horner, during the inquest in the Dublin District Coroner’s Court.

Stardust survivors have told an inquest jury of seeing flames racing across the ceiling of the nightclub in what one witness described as being like the film ‘Backdraft’