A woman whose husband died in the Stardust fire has described how looking into the burning building was like "looking into a furnace".
Christina Buckley was giving evidence at the inquests into the 48 people who died in the 1981 nightclub fire.
Her husband Jimmy, who was 23 years old at the time, died in the blaze.
She said the last time she saw her husband was at their table as he was minding the coats.
The court heard how she was on the dancefloor when she saw a grey-black cloud "rolling across the ceiling".
She said it was "really thick, exactly like storm clouds."
Her brother-in-law, Albert Buckley then guided her towards exit five.
She said the doors were closed when she got there and that people were shouting to get them open.
She said after a "few minutes" the doors burst open.
Ms Buckley then told the court that some time after she made it outside she looked back in the exit she escaped from.
She said: "It was like looking into a furnace...it was just completely red."
The Dublin District Coroner’s Court was also told that 13 February 1981, the date of the fatal disco, was also the first birthday of the Buckleys' daughter.
Earlier, Thomas Larkin, who was 26 years old at the time of the disaster, described how he went back inside the burning building to pull a girl to safety.
The court heard the woman he saved was Antoinette Keegan, the campaigner whose two sisters Martina and Mary both died in the fire.
He told the Dublin District Coroner's Court that he himself was pulled out the building by a person unknown after he fell to the ground as he tried escape.
He told the court that shortly after he made it out he heard a girl screaming inside and estimated she was around six or seven feet from the exit.
He went back in and said he spotted the girl from the white blouse she was wearing.
Mr Larkin told the court that she was holding on to something and that the only way to release her was to kick her hands.
"Whatever she was holding onto, she was holding on tight," he told the inquests.
The court also heard how Antoinette Keegan, during her evidence last month, said she was holding on her sister Martina’s hand.
Mr Larkin agreed with counsel for the families that he did not know that at the time.
Earlier, he described how the blaze quickly spread after a bouncer had lifted up a partition in the area where the fire was first spotted
He agreed that when he first saw the fire in the partitioned off area, known as the west alcove, it was not very big and that his inclination was to return to his seat.
He said a bouncer then pulled up a second roller blind, and said things then started to get a lot worse and said the flames then just "shot across" the ceiling.
The court heard how Mr Larkin made his way to Exit 5 and that there were around 20 to 30 people in front of him.
He said he could hear people kicking the doors trying to get them open.
