{"id":377911,"date":"2026-04-02T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:36:09","slug":"graces-law-scrambler-ban-is-no-use-if-it-cant-be-enforced-say-parents-of-grace-lynch-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377911\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace&#8217;s Law: \u2018Scrambler ban is no use if it can\u2019t be enforced,\u2019 say\u00a0parents of\u00a0Grace Lynch (16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Bikes to be outlawed in all public places following death of schoolgirl at pedestrian crossing earlier this year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Siobh\u00e1n Lynch (centre) at a vigil for her daughter, Grace, after she was killed by a scrambler near her home in January. Photo: Steve Humphries\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6dc58d11-638b-494a-a4f8-e48ce36ff9e6.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)\">Siobh\u00e1n Lynch (centre) at a vigil for her daughter, Grace, after she was killed by a scrambler near her home in January. Photo: Steve Humphries<\/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)\">The parents of a schoolgirl who died after being hit by a scrambler have said there is no point having a new law banning the bikes if garda\u00ed are not allowed to chase riders.<\/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 Lynch (16) died after being hit by a scrambler at a pedestrian crossing near her home at Valley Park Road, Finglas, Dublin, on January 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bikes to be outlawed in all public places following death of schoolgirl at pedestrian crossing earlier this year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,18573,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-377911","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-jim-ocallaghan","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377911","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=377911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}