Overview

• Seventeen-year-old Mia Keevan became unwell at the Emerge festival at Boucher Playing Fields and died in hospital, with a PSNI investigation under way.
• Two other attendees were hospitalised from the event, including a woman in her 30s who is serious but stable and a teenage boy who is expected to recover.
• Police said the two-day festival drew about 40,000 people and resulted in seven arrests alongside thirteen immediate disposals by officers.
• A separate death of attendee Trae Keenan, 24, was reported after he became unwell at Belfast accommodation following the festival, with enquiries ongoing and a post-mortem planned.
• Belfast councillor Micky Murray requested an urgent meeting with festival representatives to review safety, and a GoFundMe set up by Sarah Roche is raising support for Mia Keevan’s family.