“I remember my dad coming up to tell us about it as we were getting ready to go to school the next morning. And I would still to this day as a result of that, when I go in anywhere, I just instinctively check for the exits. You’re very impressionable at 10, all sorts of things go through your head. “Even to this day, it comes straight into my head when I pass by the spot itself.
“It was a stench around the place for years,” Gilroy says now, when we meet a month later.
It was the worst thing that happened in our lives.” My mother fostered a girl and after she got married, her husband’s brother died in the fire. My first cousin was in the fire and got badly injured. This was a horrendous thing to happen and it affected everyone from the northeast part of Dublin. “I can’t even begin to understand the upset that you have for this length of time. “This is very important to us,” Gilroy told the families. Sitting in front of them, the families cradled portraits of their lost people, framed and frozen in time. Alongside him were James McCarthy, Evan Comerford and Paddy Small, northsiders who weren’t even born when the Valentine’s Night fire in an Artane nightclub claimed 48 lives in February 1982. Pat Gilroy looked around the room and apologised that things were a small bit rushed. But here, on the eve of the inquests, they arrived at St Clare’s as guests of the Dublin football team. For four decades now, the Stardust families have been bounced around the system, ignored and dismissed, left to drown in their grief. In they came in twos and threes, crouched and worn by the years, keeping on for one last push. There is a strong expectation in Golden State that Myers, if he ultimately elects to depart from his post as president of basketball operations, will not work in the league next season.Dublin’s DCU training base, mid-April. "Myers might walk away anyway, but the best current read is that this is not going to be about money.
"Bob Myers will receive a handsome new contract from the Warriors if he elects to stay with the only team he has known since leaving the player representation business in April 2011," Stein wrote.
However, if Myers does not return to the Warriors next season, NBA insider Marc Stein reported Saturday in his latest Substack column that Myers will not take another job in the league. Holmes reported Friday, citing league sources, that the Warriors' contract offer to Myers is, if accepted, expected to make him the highest-paid GM in the league. Myers' contract is set to expire on June 30 and currently, there is no indication whether or not he will return next season. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Sunday, citing sources, that Myers is "torn" about the decision and plans to make up his mind in the next few weeks. The Warriors might not have to compete against general manager Bob Myers' next team if he indeed does decide to leave the organization this summer.
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