{"id":266225,"date":"2026-01-27T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:08:08","slug":"man-due-in-court-charged-over-scrambler-crash-that-killed-girl-16-in-finglas-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266225\/","title":{"rendered":"Man due in court charged over scrambler crash that killed girl (16) in Finglas \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his late teens is due to appear in court on Tuesday charged in connection with a crash in Finglas that killed a 16-year-old girl. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Grace Lynch died after being hit by a scrambler motorbike as she used a pedestrian crossing on Ratoath Road in Dublin 11, on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two teenagers on the bike, an adult male and a male juvenile, were treated for \u201cnon life-threatening\u201d injuries after the incident on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his late teens was arrested on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is expected to appear before Blanchardstown District Court on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/01\/26\/justice-for-grace-more-than-1000-take-part-in-walk-for-teen-killed-in-finglas-crash\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/01\/26\/justice-for-grace-more-than-1000-take-part-in-walk-for-teen-killed-in-finglas-crash\/\">1,000 people gathered on Monday evening <\/a>to retrace a route walked by Grace on the day she died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Grace\u2019s mother, Siobh\u00e1n Lynch, held a sign with a picture of her daughter with the words \u201cjustice for Grace\u201d as she led the walk from Valley Park estate to Plunkett Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na appealed to anyone who witnessed the collision, including those with camera footage from the area between 2.10pm and 2.40pm, to contact Finglas Garda station on (01) 666 7500, the Garda confidential line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his late teens is due to appear in court on Tuesday charged in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-266225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266225","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=266225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}