{"id":270511,"date":"2026-01-29T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:46:09","slug":"scrambler-ban-is-not-a-kneejerk-reaction-minister-defends-sudden-action-after-death-of-grace-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270511\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scrambler ban is not a kneejerk reaction\u2019 \u2013 minister defends sudden action after death of Grace Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grace Lynch, who died after being struck by a scrambler bike in Finglas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/91df957f-0e51-4d7e-9b07-4ae08fc8f067.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Grace Lynch, who died after being struck by a scrambler bike in Finglas<\/p>\n<p>Conor Feehan and Adrianna Wrona<\/p>\n<p>Today at 14:24<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Junior Transport Minister Se\u00e1n Canney has denied that swift government moves to ban scrambler motorbikes from public roads and parks is a kneejerk reaction to the death of Dublin teenager Grace Lynch last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Grace was hit by a scrambler in Finglas as she crossed the Ratoath Road at a pedestrian crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grace Lynch, who died after being struck by a scrambler bike in Finglas Conor Feehan and Adrianna Wrona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-270511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270511","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=270511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}