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OVER 20 YOUNG who people fell ill at a Belfast gig last night are believed to have been suffering the effects of drink and drugs, said the PSNI.
A “major incident” was declared at the Odyssey Arena last night, where Dutch DJ Hardwell was performing, when dozens of people attended the SOS bus for treatment at the concert.
15 young people were taken to hospital for intoxication outside the arena, but police said no one is thought to be in serious condition. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said in total they dealt with about 40 people last night.
Odyssey Arena General Manager Adrian Doyle said in a statement last night the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service treated people outside the Odyssey Complex.
He stated:
It is our understanding that a number of patrons arriving at the Odyssey Arena to attend a concert by Dutch DJ act ‘Hardwell’ have required medical attention, having arrived intoxicated at the Odyssey Complex.
These patrons were not granted entry to the Odyssey Arena, and were treated by the Ambulance Service outside.
Seven patients have now been transferred to hospital by ambulance.
He added that despite people falling ill, the gig, which was attended by around 7,000 people, was continuing as normal inside the Odyssey Arena.
“As with any concert, the safety of our patrons is our absolute priority at all times and we are very confident that we have sufficient staff on site to maintain a safe and enjoyable concert,” he said.
This morning, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness tweeted about the incident:
(Twitter/@M_McGuinness_SF)
The PSNI state that police inquiries are ongoing.
DJ Hardwell is due to perform in Dublin tonight in the O2 Arena.
At around midnight last night, DJ Hardwell tweeted:
(Twitter/@HARDWELL)
The gardaí told TheJournal.ie that it is too early to say if there will be any special arrangements for the Dublin gig following last night’s incident in the north, but said that it will be policed like any other major event.
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@Fank Pulman: and dentist…
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@Neal Ireland Hello.: *strength
@Neal Ireland Hello.: I doubt that…evidence ?
I never finish the course of antibiotics always stopped after maybe 3 days when im feeling better, have never had any bad effects from doing so either, Just saying!
@Colette Kearns: Well Colette please explain how you grew that third arm?
@Gary: Colete hasn’t grown a third arm , her fourth one fell off : )
@Garry , what are you on about??
@Colette Kearns: Seems it was actually the sense of humour that fell off!
@Colette Kearns:
@Rory Stafford:
I would certainly not take antibiotics and don’t believe I ever have healthy body Will not allow bacteria to multiply as for virus it’s no good anyway
If my children were sick a doctor would certainly have to put forward a very good verified reason for there use The inappropriate use of antibiotics is widespread and wrong
@Colette Kearns: Whoever these British clowns are they should be ignored: Stopping antibiotics when “you feel better” rather than when the course ends is dangerous for two reasons, firstly the not all of the bacteria are gone and if they multiple and attack your system again they will have built up a resistance to the antibiotics. And secondly this is where Superbugs, that antibiotics are ineffective on, come from.
This is based on one paper. One. Against all of the research prior that indicates this is a bad idea. People still routinely don’t finish the course — maybe wait to see that this is confirmed before pushing more people to do that.
This is strange because drug resistant TB has said to be a direct result of people not completing their medication. They actually have people calling around making sure people don’t stop medication when they feel better.
This has to be fake news! Drug companies and their prescribing agents have no interest in shifting shed loads of tablets just for profit!
They are looking after our health and have no interest in financial rewards or holidays for prescribing a particular anti-biotic.
Just saying like.
Anyone seen Bob Geldoff anywhere? Something bad is going to happen if he dosent appear in public soon!
Treat every day like it’s your last , one day you’ll be right .
Only the other day a scientific study claimed , alcohol improves memory .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/24/alcohol-improves-memory-scientists-say-study-finds-drinking/
The humanity
Diseases resistant to drugs
Go
Unleavened bread
Locusts and honey if you can
This is 70 year old science that was never updated.
This error posting comment message is really annoying!
@journal.ie
If you write a comment that goes over the 800 characters, but then edit it to under 800 it still give the error posting comment message, even if you copy the text and try to post it as a new comment, is this a glitch of the text limit?
Can’t you increase the limit to a number, so actual comments can be made, instead of quasi tweets!
Yes, I realise my “@journal.ie” is a quasi tweet!
:-)
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