The investigation into the Stardust fire must be reopened, victims' families and survivors of the disaster said yesterday.
The families of the 48 young people who died and those who had survived, some with disfiguring injuries, had received "no justice" in the 25 years since the fire, said Christine Keegan, whose daughters Martina and Mary were killed in the fire.
"We are still looking for justice and we are going to get it," she said.
Mrs Keegan said she would wait for the Minister for Justice Michael McDowell to come back to the families with the results of forensic tests, but if a inquiry was not opened on that basis, the families were willing to go to the European Court of Justice.
"If we have to go to the European courts, if that far to get the justice we've been denied for 25 years, we will."
Mrs Keegan was speaking following the Stardust Memorial Mass and wreath-laying ceremony where 48 candles were lit and 48 white pigeons released to represent the lives lost.
Survivors of the tragedy said they had felt let down by the original inquiry chaired by Mr Justice Ronan Keane in November 1981.
"It is only the older you get that you realise how young and how innocent we were.
"We were very exposed and we were used and afterwards we were told to go home and just forget about it," Sharon O'Hanlon said.
Survivors, then mostly in their teens, felt their evidence to the inquiry was used only to secure compensation for the Stardust owner Eamon Butterly, one survivor, Catherine Darling, said.
"We sat there and we were made to go through the reconstruction and sit through that and made to feel it was our fault, nobody asked us how we were."
The cause of the fire was never identified, she said, and for this reason alone a new inquiry needed to be opened.
"Things were covered up, I believe. I would like to see the investigation reopened because we have never known the cause of the fire.
"Families ... everyone around this area lost someone, surely they deserve some closure in their lives," she added.
Reports that Mr Butterly had apologised to the victims "meant nothing", survivor Susan Byrne said.
"I don't know anyone he has apologised to, I wouldn't believe it anyway."
