{"id":25042,"date":"2025-08-26T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25042\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:24:07","slug":"teenage-girl-who-died-after-falling-ill-at-belfast-dance-festival-is-named-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25042\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl who died after falling ill at Belfast dance festival is named \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teenage girl who died after becoming ill<\/a> at a festival in Belfast<\/a> has been named locally as Mia Keevan. The 17-year-old from Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary<\/a>, became unwell at the Emerge dance festival in Boucher Playing Fields on Sunday and later died in hospital.<\/p>\n

She was one of three people in attendance who were hospitalised, alongside a woman in her 30s who is said to be in a serious but stable condition in hospital.<\/p>\n

A teenage boy received treatment in hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, the Police Service of Northern Ireland<\/a> (PSNI) said.<\/p>\n

In an online fundraiser, set up to support the Keevan family due to the \u201cunexpected costs they face\u201d, Mia was described as a \u201cbright, fun and much-loved girl who touched the hearts of anyone that knew her\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her friend Sarah Roche wrote: \u201cHer laughter and warmth will never be forgotten by those lucky enough to have known her.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the PSNI said a range of agencies were involved in supporting the \u201csafe delivery\u201d of the festival, \u201cas with all large-scale events\u201d.<\/p>\n

It said it made seven arrests at the festival across Saturday and Sunday for disorderly conduct, assault on police and possession of controlled drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the event it was reported that a 17-year-old girl had become unwell. Sadly, she subsequently died in hospital,\u201d said superintendent Allister Hagan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn investigation in order to establish the circumstances surrounding the tragic sudden death of this young person is ongoing and our thoughts are with the family and friends of the deceased.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice will continue to work closely with event organisers and the licensing authority to ensure that events remain safe and enjoyable for all of those who attend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl who died after becoming ill at a festival in Belfast has been named locally as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[787,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,791,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-25042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topix","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}