PEOPLE IN FINGLAS are paying tribute to 16-year-old Grace Lynch who died after a scrambler crashed into her near her home in Dublin on Sunday. 

Houses in the estate where she lived have been covered in red ribbons – her favourite colour – to honour the teenager.

Flowers have also been left in huge numbers at the site of the crash on the Ratoath Road.

Grace was walking along the road when the crash happened at around 2.20pm on Sunday.

Grace was brought to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown where she later died from her injuries.

More than one thousand people gathered on Monday evening to retrace a route taken by Grace on the day she died.

At Plunkett Green, a crowd of friends, neighbours and locals sang the song Grace and released pink balloons into the air.

Her mother Siobhan Lynch thanked people for coming out for the walk, and said watching her daughter “take her last breath was the worst pain imaginable”.

“It’s not something that any parent should have to deal with.”

Messages have been left on some of the flowers

A teenager appeared in court charged with causing her death. Keith Lee, 18, appeared at Blanchardstown District Court on Tuesday morning.

The court heard how Grace was at a pedestrian crossing when a motorbike travelled through the lights as they turned red, followed by a second bike which hit Grace.

Garda Thomas McDaniel said the bike was travelling at a speed “suspected to be not below 85 kilometres an hour” in an area which has a 50 kilometres per hour zone, and that the whole incident was caught by a CCTV camera.