{"id":527102,"date":"2026-07-01T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527102\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:56:11","slug":"these-lads-are-running-amok-child-injured-by-scrambler-in-dublins-north-inner-city-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527102\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018These lads are running amok\u2019: Child injured by scrambler in Dublin\u2019s north inner city \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A child with additional needs was knocked down by a scrambler bike in a hit-and-run incident while making his way to the shops in Dublin\u2019s<\/a> north inner city, the D\u00e1il has heard.<\/p>\n

Social Democrats<\/a> TD Daniel Ennis<\/a> said Jayden Deans was seriously injured in the incident at the Five Lamps on Amiens Street. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a hit-and-run and the scrambler came back as part of another group of scramblers and were circling the family as they were tending to Jayden on the ground,\u201d the Dublin Central<\/a> TD said. <\/p>\n

Ennis described the episode as \u201chorrible stuff\u201d and said it highlighted \u201cthe sheer sense of lawlessness and the failure to address the scrambler scourge on the ground\u201d. <\/p>\n

Despite legislation, known as Grace\u2019s Law<\/a>, which bans scramblers from all public places, being introduced earlier this year, he said use of the motorcycles continues to plague parts of the capital. <\/p>\n

\u201cWithout that legislation being enforced and policed on the ground, it doesn\u2019t matter to these lads,\u201d he said. \u201cThese lads are running amok, terrorising parts of Dublin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ennis added that areas such as the north inner city, Finglas and Cabra were particularly impacted and called for a dedicated unit to address the problem. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not seeing it in Foxrock, Taoiseach. This needs to be policed,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

In response, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> described the incident as \u201cshocking\u201d and said there were \u201ctoo many\u201d incidents like it in relation to scramblers. <\/p>\n

Around 1,000 scramblers had been seized<\/a> over recent years, he said, but there needed to be \u201ca full-on focus on this\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe law is now there, it needs enforcement on a continual basis, whether it\u2019s through a unit or a proper system operated by the garda\u00ed, but this is absolutely unacceptable,\u201d said Martin. \u201cThese are a major threat to life in Dublin in particular and it\u2019s rampant in certain areas and it needs to be targeted and dealt with.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child with additional needs was knocked down by a scrambler bike in a hit-and-run incident while making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194872,615,85377,61,60,1843,43,1419],"class_list":["post-527102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-ennis","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-central-constituency","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-social-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527102","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=527102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}