{"id":216575,"date":"2025-12-29T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216575\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:46:10","slug":"bunting-hurt-by-online-abuse-of-teenage-son-after-exit-from-darts-world-championship-pdc-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216575\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunting hurt by online abuse of teenage son after exit from darts world championship | PDC World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Stephen Bunting has revealed his 13-year-old son has been a victim of online abuse. Toby Bunting was in the crowd at Alexandra Palace as his father, the fourth seed, was knocked out in the third round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/pdcworldchampionships\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PDC World Championship<\/a> by James Hurrell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sbunting180\/status\/2005599976865628526\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bunting said in a post on X<\/a> that his family have been hurt by the social media trolling. \u201cHi guys, sorry I\u2019ve had a few days away from my socials, but I just needed a small bit of time after my game to recover and rest,\u201d the 40-year-old wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI love my family so much and they give me massive motivation to continue this journey. I still believe I have a lot to give darts over the rest of my career and I want to make them forever proud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThey see the negative comments and do their best to make sure I don\u2019t see them and even Toby has had some hate from some of the trolls online which really is hurtful for us as a family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cToby is one of the nicest kids you could wish to meet and I\u2019ll be doing a lot more social stuff with him this coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Bunting has revealed his 13-year-old son has been a victim of online abuse. Toby Bunting was in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-216575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}