Humblebrag. Noun. An ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.

Last Sunday, I spent a few hours out in Spa national school, a beautiful setting overlooking Tralee bay glistening with the bright sunshine bouncing off the water. There were hundreds out there supporting their annual fundraiser in aid of former student Donal Wash. And it got me thinking about him again.

THE memory of Kerry teenager Dónal Walsh was deeply etched into the national consciousness when, while gravely ill from terminal cancer and clinging desperately to life, he made a moving plea for an end to the suicide epidemic among young people.

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

The 10 men who graduated as the navy’s newest officers yesterday handed over a cheque for more than €7,000 to a charity set up to prevent suicide among young people.

It’s more than a year since Donal Walsh died, but his message still resonates, says Donal Hickey.

Budding film-makers and actors are taking inspiration from the life of a courageous teenager who promoted an anti-suicide message among his peers.

The family of Donal Walsh has called on young people to remember his message against suicide as they face their first Christmas without the Kerry teenager.

Some people are entering 2014 because of teenager Donal Walsh’s exhortation to live life to the maximum, a coroner has said.

A street collection in memory of inspirational teenager Donal Walsh during the Rose of Tralee Festival realised €12,500.

A Kerry teenager’s message of life will live on in Ireland’s first suicide resource centre.

The widow of murdered garda, Adrian Donohoe, has spoken publicly for the first time about the devastating impact of her husband’s violent death on her family.

The family of Kerry teenager Donal Walsh has set up a foundation in his honour to preserve his memory and promote the causes that punctuated his short, yet vibrant, life.

The parents of inspirational teenager Donal Walsh are determined to keep his memory alive by continuing to spread his message, which touched a chord not only in Ireland, but around the world.

The memory of an inspirational teenager lured golfers to sun-splashed fairways in Killarney, Co Kerry, yesterday.

For four years the parents of Donal Walsh helped him fight cancer not just with medicine, but with love, courage, and humour, and yesterday they proved their armoury is far from empty.

Further to the recent funeral of our son and brother Donal, and the many letters of condolence we have received, we would like to express heartfelt thanks from our family.

Two friends and close neighbours from a small Cork village have been killed in separate accidents abroad in the space of just two months.

If ever a funeral was a celebration of life, this was it.

AT the end of a short life marked by the warrior spirit, it was only appropriate Dónal Walsh’s passing was sealed with a haka.

It was the young people among the mourners that seemed most affected by the death of the inspirational and rugby-loving Dónal Walsh.

A coroner who frequently highlights the high level of suicide in the country believes appeals by the late Dónal Walsh to his peers not to take their lives will have a lasting impact.

SPEAKING on TV last month, Dónal Walsh came to national prominence, and not before time.

A 16-year-old anti-suicide campaigner who died after a long battle with cancer had more of an impact than any politician, a Government minister has claimed.

A schoolboy battling cancer for a third time has made an impassioned appeal to young people not to take their own lives.

A POSTMORTEM on the body of a man found in a Clonmel apartment block was expected to reveal he was assaulted before his death.

CRISTIANO Ronaldo smashed a car window as he lashed out in fury at a teenage girl trying to film him and his mother in the street.

A VETERAN Fine Gael politician followed in his late father’s footsteps to become lord mayor of Cork last night.

CRISTIANO Ronaldo’s mum has insisted the kisses he blows to the crowd are for her and his sisters and not his new girlfriend.

THE funeral takes place today in Kilmallock of a Co Limerick chemist who died in a road accident near Mallow.

THEY cut short a tour of America last week to help search for his body — and last night they accompanied him as he began his final journey.

IF YOU think cutting the grass in your back garden is a chore, spare a thought for a young Corkman.