{"id":399938,"date":"2026-04-15T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:34:15","slug":"mother-of-grace-lynch-who-died-after-being-hit-by-scrambler-describes-online-threats-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399938\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of Grace Lynch, who died after being hit by scrambler, describes online threats \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mother of Grace Lynch, the teenager who died<\/a> after being hit by a scrambler bike in Finglas last January, has said she will not be deterred from campaigning for changes in legislation because of online threats.<\/p>\n

Siobh\u00e1n Lynch said on Wednesday that in the past month she had received threats that she would have her window smashed, \u201cthat I\u2019d better stop now or I\u2019ll know all about it.\u201c<\/p>\n

Grace (16) died after being hit by a scrambler as she used a pedestrian crossing on Ratoath Road in Finglas, north Dublin<\/a> in January. A man later appeared in court charged in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n

Siobh\u00e1n Lynch told Newstalk<\/a>\u2019s Claire Byrne show she had received threats from people warning \u201cthey will put me down, they will put me where my daughter is.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThey have slandered Grace, they have said they don\u2019t care if Grace got a smack of a scrambler, they don\u2019t care about the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the messages, which had come in on Facebook and TikTok, had been saved and passed on to the garda\u00ed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The experience had been frightening for the whole family. It was all a way of trying to intimidate them, Siobh\u00e1n Lynch said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had people tell me Grace was an absolute idiot, that it\u2019s her own fault that she got killed. Why did she not just stay back? Why did she cross the road? How dare I stand up for my daughter? How dare I protect her name? How dare I fight and let everybody know what happened to Grace?\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Garda\u00ed have resources to enforce Grace\u2019s Law and should not fear prosecution, Canney saysOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\"GraceGrace Lynch’s mother Siobh\u00e1n at a vigil in memory of her daughter who died after being hit by a scrambler motorcycle in Dublin. Photograph: Colin Keegan\/Collins, Dublin. <\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> had advised the family to report any threats and if they noticed anyone around the house. <\/p>\n

Grace\u2019s father Martin, who came off all social media platforms, said he was \u201cobviously annoyed and agitated\u201d, with the threats. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t argue with dumb, can you? There\u2019s no point in denying anything, because you\u2019re not going to get anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The family was determined to continue their campaign around scramblers, electric bikes and scooters, he said. <\/p>\n

Their daughter had been failed by the system, which was why they were pushing for Grace\u2019s Law and enforcement of existing legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t like to see another parent go through what I\u2019ve gone through,\u201d said Siobh\u00e1n Lynch.<\/p>\n

She said social media platforms should not allow people to upload posts unless they have a profile so they could be identified, otherwise anonymity allowed them \u201can easy way to target people\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an easy way to bully people and it shouldn\u2019t be allowed, all of these administrators should be looking into this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

People might not like what she had to say, but she was determined to continue her campaign, she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is Grace didn\u2019t die for no reason, and they can come for me all they want but you know you\u2019re disrespecting a little girl in the meantime who didn\u2019t ask to die and I\u2019ll never stop fighting for her.\u201c<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Grace Lynch made people \u2018feel happy just to be around her\u2019, teenager\u2019s funeral hearsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of Grace Lynch, the teenager who died after being hit by a scrambler bike in Finglas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6130,615,1346,61,60,43,24562],"class_list":{"0":"post-399938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-claire-byrne","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-garda-siochana","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newstalk-radio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399938","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=399938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399938\/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=399938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}