Elma Walsh: Donal is still inspiring people

She misses him and “everything about him” every day. But Donal Walsh is still inspiring people, his mother Elma tells Clodagh Finn.

Sixteen-year-old Donal Walsh woke up one May morning just two weeks before he died and roared for his mother. Elma Walsh ran upstairs thinking something awful had happened, but found him smiling and triumphant.

“Do you know what day it is? It’s the 1st of May, the first day of summer. I made it. F… the doctors,” he said, delighted to have outlived his cancer prognosis by six months.