Ms Keegan apologised to members of the public and said her principles did not align with the National Party.

‘It was the political power that done this to us, and that’s one of the reasons for running,’ Ms Keegan said.

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

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.

Antoinette Keegan lost two sisters and a number of close friends in the fire