“Dónal Walsh saw beauty everywhere around him. The beauty of the world the rest of us had chosen to ignore and not appreciate.”

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.

Perhaps the odd Aberavon player looked up last Saturday from the on-field combat in O’Dowd Park and thought he was back in Wales.