12/09/2016 BBC Newsline

Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: Intoxicated and in danger

- a doctor's warning over the teenagers treated

They were certainly in a dangerous place and required intensive

support. Facebook fails to stop a 14-year-old

girl suing it over a naked photo. The moment a lorry careered out

of control before crashing A couple of hours earlier and you

would have been looking at bodies in the street.

Afraid for her life - an MLA speaks for the first time

He had my telephone number and the calls and texts started arriving

with increasing regularity and I felt threatened.

A second gold medal for Bethany Firth while Michael McKillop retains

his title on the track. And, with more rain forecast

tonight - can we expect A hospital consultant has told BBC

Newsline that at least one young person could have died

in Londonderry at the weekend. Children as young as 12 needed

treatment for the effects of drink and drugs after going

to a Club MTV event. The promoter said it had turned away

what it described as too many drunk children

who were without their parents For the vast majority

of the 12,000 young people who attended,

it certainly was a night to remember,

the Club MTV concert at Ebrington But concerns have been raised

by medical staff and parents about the amount of drugs

and alcohol taken by teenagers and particularly among those

who were under age. Shocking scenes. I got a phone call

to pick my daughter up. Taking drink and drugs at 14 years of age. Young

boys at 14 or 15, clearly on drugs. were treated for the effects of

alcohol and drugs such as ecstasy. One teenage boy had to be put

on a ventilator in intensive care. Once you become so unconscious and

distressed so seizure activity, then if that individual were to have

vomited at that point with his face in a spasm, you are into likely

death. What we do is about prevention in that situation. We

take control of the airway and control the breathing until such

time as their body has metabolised they have taken. It is about they

were in a dangerous place and required intensive support. Our

services here cope with this day in, day out but we are already busy and

the additional load of these patients coming in put pressure on

the staff and all the other patients. It is an exaggeration to

say that Britain could have died? Absolutely no exaggeration. If they

had vomited, they would have been dead.

concert declined to be interviewed but it strongly defended its

It said it turned away what it described as too

many drunk children who were there without parents and trying to get

The promoters say its welfare area treated 65

concertgoers and a dozen were sent to Altnagelvin as a precaution.

The PSNI had no one available to do an interview.

A consultant has made a direct appeal to parents and says if their

children are going to concerts like these, there must be at least one in

the group who isn't drinking or taking drugs and the has access to a

mobile phone. Then they can be contacted in case of an emergency.

He says it is that serious. Facebook has failed in an attempt

to halt legal action against it, over a naked photograph

of a 14-year-old girl from Northern Ireland,

posted on several occasions. A high court Judge in Belfast has

rejected attempts by the social media giant to have the case

against it thrown out. The photograph of the 14-year-old

girl was posted time after time over In what is believed to be

the first case of its kind anywhere in the world,

the girl is suing the man suspected She cannot be identified

for legal reasons but But barristers for Facebook

applied to have the Facebook's legal team said

a European directive protected the company from having

to monitor a vast amount of online material for what is

posted on just one page. They stressed that

the social network always took down

images that breached its rules and had taken down this picture when

they were told it had been posted. Mr Justice Stevens

refused their bid to end proceedings and instead

the case will go to a full

trial at a later date. A member of the Irish Coast Guard

died off County Clare this afternoon when a rescue boat overturned

during a search operation. Two others in the crew based

at Kilkee were rescued from the water by helicopter

and taken to hospital. The crew was searching for a missing

man near cliffs when their rigid inflatable boat or RIB flipped

over in a heavy swell. The coastguard has confirmed that

the member who died was a woman. Coming up later, we hear from the

athletes from Northern Ireland who won a gold medal at the Paralympics

over the weekend. CCTV pictures have been released

of the moment an articulated lorry crashed into Foyleside shopping

centre in Derry at the weekend. The Police today renewed

their appeal for three young men seen in the area at

the time to come forward. It looked like nothing would stop

the lorry. It just kept going and going, gathering speed before it

eventually smashed into Foyleside shopping centre. This was the

result. No one was in the vehicle at the time and no one was hurt but if

someone had been on the street, it could have been very story. Take

another look at what happened. The lorry barely slows down when it hits

a parked car. It then crashes through metal road by Lawrence one

by one by one, leaving a trail of destruction. What the CCTV does not

show is where the lorry's journey started, more than 100 metres away.

The vehicle careered out of control down this hill, bouncing of that

wall onto this wall. You can see the damage it caused. The vehicle would

have weighed within ten tonnes. Just look at how quickly it was going.

The lorry had been parked outside a store at the top of the hill. The

brakes either failed or are deliberately left off. It all

happened out for: 45 in the morning. A couple of hours earlier and you

would have been looking at bodies in the street, a murder scene. In this

part of the city centre, there would have been a lot of the night

revellers but at this time of the morning, they're either those making

their way home and those making their way to work and we are

adjacent here to a taxi rank. Someone could have come around the

corner at the traffic lights and they would not have stood a chance.

Police are studying CCTV footage. They want to speak to three young

men spotted nearby around the same time as the incident. It took only

around 12 seconds for the lorry to get down the hill but it took more

than 12 hours to remove it from the side of the shopping centre.

A DUP MLA has spoken for the first time about how she feared

for her life after being stalked by a stranger for months.

Brenda Hale said her life was turned upside down by a man who began

harassing her after seeing her election poster five years ago.

It happened just two years after her husband was

killed while serving in the army in Afghanistan.

Mrs Hale brought a motion today before the Assembly on its first day

back after the summer break, calling for legislation

She has been speaking to our Political Correspondent Enda

So what more did Brenda Hale have to say about her ordeal?

Brenda Hale came to Stormont Today to highlight the fact that unlike in

other parts of the UK, there is no law here to deal specifically with

stalking. There is no legal definition here of stalking so there

is no framework for the police and courts service to work within and

that, according to her, leaves victims with very few places to

turn. Today she told the story of another stalking victim, Nicky Clark

but she did not go into the details of her own ordeal. She did when I

chatted to her this afternoon and she told me more about what happened

to her. He was phoning me regularly, text and me, saying, it couldn't let

this religion ship going, and I had never met this man until one day he

approached me in Marks Spencer 's. What happened that day? He came up

to me after the election and I thought he was a constituent. He

said he had been watching me a lot and he had got hold of my telephone

number and then the calls and texts started arriving increased

regularity and I felt very threatened. I did not know this man

from Adam and he lived in Dublin and was stalking me from his home

address in Dublin. What impact did it have on the psychologically?

Incredibly frightening, I had become a very public person after the death

of my husband and Afghanistan. My story was out there that I was alone

with two children and to feel honourable like that, it made me

question whether this job was the right one for me. I nipped it in the

bad very quickly and went to police. Eddie because I was an MLA, the

police were very quick to act. On a day-to-day basis, does is

influencing how you do things with Mike I am very protective of my

telephone number. I don't put it on any letters from work or if I use my

phone number is to someone else, I always had my number so I am very

aware of my personal security and also that I am home alone with my

daughters and I have to keep us all safe. Five years on, Brenda Hale

still feels vulnerable. She is reluctant to circulate her personal

details. The justice minister said today that she is minded to look at

what legislation might be needed here to ensure greater protection

for victims of stalking and Brenda Hale says she is determined to see

the process through. A 22-year-old man has been in court

charged in connection with a one-punch attack

in Londonderry at the weekend. Matthew McDermott,

from Cornshell Fields in the city, has been charged with grievous

bodily harm with intent Niall Grace, a player

with Institute football club, is in a critical condition

in hospital after the assault in Waterloo Street in the early

hours of yesterday. A woman is in a stable condition

after a tree fell on her car near Comber last night

during high winds. The winds also caused

a former factory building There's growing speculation

the Republic's government could announce an inquiry

into the controversial sale of Nama's Northern

Ireland property loans. Nama is the Irish state agency set

up take control of bad loans north and south that

were damaging the banks. In 2014 it sold its entire

portfolio in Northern Ireland A report to be published this week

is expected to conclude there were irregularities in that

deal which may have cost Irish taxpayers hundreds

of millions of Euros. Nama's Northern Ireland

deal was the biggest property transaction

this island has ever seen but controversy

has swirled around it Mainly focusing on

the rule of this man, He was a senior Nama

adviser who went on to work with an investment fund which was

bidding in the Northern Ireland Nama gave evidence to an Irish

Parliamentary committee last year and insisted that despite

Mr Cushnahan's role, the sales process had

integrity. I don't think you can in any way

able this whole process as corrupt or anything like that. As far as you

are concerned, nothing to see here? The process was run well, the

committee was not problematic, move on, people, nothing to see?

But the Irish spending watchdog looks set to disagree.

It has been investigating and a report

Leaked excerpts suggested will see the deal had irregularities and

shortcomings and that those feelings could have

resulted in hundreds of

Meanwhile Frank Cushnahan could face questions from the police.

Given the revelations on spotlight last week, shocking revelations

involving people who were advising Nama at stages during that

particular sale, I think it is inevitable that there would be an

inquiry. Last week's Spotlight

programme broadcast a recording of him taking a cash

payment from a Nama client at a time Nama suspect this could amount to

possible corruption and has reported the matter to both the Gardai

and the National Crime Agency. Mr Cushnahan has always

denied any wrongdoing. Still to come, Ulster make it two

wins out of two in the Pro12 with a victory in Italy. More details

shortly. The senior Irish Olympic official

Pat Hickey says he intends to fight all charges against him in relation

to the alleged He was charged in Rio

on Friday night. Kevin Mallon who is a Dublin

businessman, and eight other people also face charges including ticket

touting and money laundering. Our Dublin correspondent

Shane Harrison joins me The judicial system is different in

Brazil, explain what the latest news means. The Brazilian system is very

different but over the weekend, what happened is, a Brazilian judge

decided to accept the recommendation of the prosecutor 's office that

Kevin Mallon and Pat Hickey should stand trial and face serious charges

including their alleged involvement in a criminal organisation, ticket

touting, money-laundering and tax evasion and as you said, the judge

decided there were eight other defendants but none of them is

believed to be in Brazil. This whole matter boils down to Pat Hickey's

arrest in his hotel last month and his temporary standing down as

President of the Olympic Council of Ireland. Brazilian police are saying

that tickets were handed over to a sports hospitality organisation who

then sold them, even though they were not authorised to do so. Is

important to stress that both Kevin Mallon and Pat deny any involvement

in any wrongdoing. What happens to those two Irishmen now? The two men

are still in Brazil and they are greatly restricted in what they can

do. Pat Hickey is issuing a statement, denying he was under

house arrest but he does have two issue a 10pm curfew every night. He

is not allowed to attend the Paralympics and he has to go to

court on the 20th of every month. It could well be that he has after

surrendering his passport, being a position where he cannot leave

Brazil legally but because his trial could take up to 18 months, it is

possible that a judge may decide because of his age, he is in his

70s, and his reported bad health, that he may be allowed to return to

Ireland if he agrees to return for his trial but that would be a matter

for a judge to decide at a later date.

The Paralympic Games continue in Rio - and it was a golden weekend

Yes - a double success for competitors from Northern Ireland

Bethany Firth, swimming for GB, secured a second gold medal

of the Games by winning the 200m freestyle final.

Her performance last night followed Michael McKillop's victory

for Ireland in the 1500 metres on the track - retaining the title

We're used to seeing Michael McKillop win in impressive style but

for the world-record holder, this Paralympic gold medal was his

hardest victory to date. Not like any other race I have been in. The

Algerian took it out but was not in the plan. By dad said, get to the

bell and if they are still there, don't panic. Every 100 metres, pick

it up. I did that for 300 metres and I got away from the Canadian. He is

only 19 and it was tough to get my emotions under check because I knew

how much it meant to me and my family and everyone back home

because Paralympic sport is growing back home but the more that we can

put gold medals on the table and show the public that we are

performing at the highest level, that will move us and the movement

forward. There was another record-breaking performance in the

pool for Bethany Firth. The swimmer added to her 100 metres backstroke

gold medal with victory in the 200 metres freestyle. A stunning

performance as her family watched on at the aquatics centre and the 20

old is already one of the stars of the games with two more events to

come. Olympic silver medallist

Richard Chambers has decided to end Chambers won his medal

in the lightweight men's four He also won two world

titles but missed out He's now decided to take up

a coaching post with Rugby and Ulster made it

back-to-back wins in the Pro12 with a 22-11 victory away

to Italian side Treviso. But the team were left to rue some

missed opportunities . Just for magnets gone and also got

to the best possible start on Saturday, seizing the initiative

with an early try. Ulster centre Luke Marshall with the score. A

Formica point half-time lead was extended after the break when

captain Rob Herring rumbled over the line. That is good work from Ulster.

He gets the try! When Ruane Pienaar scored a third try, Ulster 's eyes

were then on the bonus point but which, with a fourth but it wasn't

to be. We have to take our hats off to Treviso. They kept us almost all

day but in saying that, we definitely deserved another try.

Drives could have gone better earlier. We accept where we possibly

dropped the ball a little bit there but it is a good win for us still.

Next up for Ulster it is the Scarlets at the Kingspan Stadium on

Friday night. Brendan Rodgers had a memorable

first Old Firm derby as the manager His team were rampant

in a five-one thrashing Scott Sinclair gave the side

a two-goal advantage an hour Then the impressive striker

Moussa Dembele completed a hat-trick on a very satisfying day's work

for Rodgers and his team. Great applause to the players for

their commitment and concentration. Goals were excellent. I thought

there was a real high level of quality in the finishes. Then we

kept pressing right until the very end and scored five. We could have

had one or two more and defensively we never had any problems, so

outstanding team performance and results.

Just the small matter of Barcelona in the Champions League for Rodgers

Crusaders maintained their winning form at the weekend but the league

leaders had a scare against Dungannon Swifts.

Unbeaten in their previous five games, it was Dungannon who opened

the scoring at Seaview. The champions responded via a penalty

kick from Gavin White and policy cliques struck twice in the last 12

minutes to maintain Crusaders four point lead at the top of the table.

At Windsor Park, the birthday boy Paul Smith helped them field to a

Formica- one win over Portadown. This effort was merely a consolation

goal for Pat McGovern's side. It was a tale of two penalty kicks at

Molineux Park. Glenn Allen met there is but Adam scored to secure

Ballinamallard's first win of the season. Two penalties in this

deflected strike helped Ballymena United to a 3-2 win over

Cliftonville. Or its maintained their sublime started the season

with a 2-0 win over Glentoran. James Wood Loxone headed in Coleraine 's

opener to make them up to fourth place in the table with a 2-0

victory over Carrick. The Belfast Giants had a good

weekend beating the Fife Flyers 4-2 on Saturday in the Challenge Cup

at the SSE Arena before winning their first Elite League

game of the season last night. They defeated Coventry Blaze 3-2

with a David Rutherford Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell

both posted final rounds of level-par 72 to end the BMW

Championship on three They finished 20 shots behind

the winner Dustin Johnson. McIlroy progresses to the end

of season Tour Championship in two weeks time but McDowell

didn't qualify. Unfortunately we do have heated

travelling from the continent but it will not reach our shores. Giants

Causeway will look like that again tomorrow. This evening and tonight

we hold onto the rain coming in especially for Eastern counties. We

have quite a bit so that could cause some problems on the road with

surface flooding in the few places. A mild night with temperatures of 12

degrees. Tomorrow we have a lot of cloud and that cloud will give us

some rain. Especially for the eastern to begin with. A break for a

while and some sunshine per western areas but then the rain begins to

push in again from the South. Merely for Central and eastern areas for

much of the day where temperatures will reach just 14 degrees. Any

western areas will have a pretty dry start but even here, we will see wet

weather making its way in as we make our way through the day. If you are

heading towards written tomorrow, we could see temperatures reaching 31

degrees, making it the hottest day across the UK since 1963 but look at

our temperatures, struggling at just 15 or 16 degrees as we hang onto a

lot of cloud and rain, so quite disappointing. Rain continues on and

off, patchy in nature, as we make our way into the evening. It will

become more sherry overnight into Wednesday. A cooler and fashion

night as well with temperatures dipping to about ten or 11 degrees.

There is some good news at least, Wednesday may be a little bit of wet

weather towards the West but a warmer day and this time we could

see some sunshine creeping in of the Irish Sea. Temperatures could reach

20 21 degrees. As for the rest of the week, a warm day on Wednesday

and Thursday but unsettled at times. Pressure by Friday.

You can also keep in contact with us via Facebook and twitter.