Relatives of those killed in the Stardust disaster are to stage daily protests at the Dáil until a new inquiry is opened into the tragedy.
The Stardust Victims Committee has said it would picket Government Buildings in a bid to have the truth surrounding the cause of the blaze made public.
Campaigners maintain the fire could have been prevented and want someone made accountable. In total, 48 young people were perished as flames engulfed the nightclub in Artane, north Dublin, on St Valentine's Day in 1981.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern yesterday agreed that the bodies of five unidentified victims will be exhumed, formally identified, and reburied with all costs covered by the Department of Justice. However, he has said it will be another three weeks before a final decision is made on an new inquiry.
The families commended Mr Ahern for the announcement, but maintain they will fight for the truth. "We met the Taoiseach in September about holding a new inquiry, it is now November, and he wants us to wait another three weeks," said Antoinette Keegan, who lost two sisters in the tragedy.
"We want someone made accountable for what happened that night." The families believe an independent forensic report they commissioned proves the blaze started in the roof space of the club, and not deliberately in a ground-floor alcove as suggested in a previous report.
Ms Keegan said the Stardust families believe the original tribunal of inquiry reached conclusions in ignorance of crucial evidence and was deprived of vital information central to the proper discharge of its terms of reference. Ms Keegan will join campaigners outside the Dail from 10am tomorrow.
In all, 25 men and 23 women died, 214 were injured, 11 badly disfigured or disabled. The average age of the dead was 19.
It is hoped that the Coroner could order the exhumations at a formal hearing before Christmas, and that the bodies could be formally identified before the 26th anniversary of the fatal blaze in February.
The five — Murtagh Kavanagh, Richard Bennett, Michael Ffrench, Eamon Loughman and Paul Wade — are currently buried in an unmarked plot in St Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, north Dublin.
A spokeswoman for the Taoiseach said a project timescale for the exhumation process will be set out very shortly and, reflecting on his awareness of the enduring impact on so many families, assured the Committee of his personal commitment to a full and open consideration of their requests.
A 1981 tribunal chaired by Mr Justice Ronan Keane found after 122 days that although the cause of the fire was not known, and may never be known, it was probably caused deliberately, the most likely mechanism being the slashing of some of the seats with a knife and the application of a lighted match or cigarette lighter to the exposed foam, or the ignition of newspapers on or under the seats.