Terminally ill teen donates €15k injury award to sister’s education

Gravely ill teenager Donal Walsh has donated a €15,000 personal injury award to aid his elder sister’s education.

The settlement for the 16-year-old cancer sufferer was approved at the Circuit Court in Killarney yesterday after he was knocked off his bicycle by a car in September. Barrister Katie O’Connell told Judge Pauline Codd that Donal, from Hare St, Blennerville, Tralee, Co Kerry, “doesn’t have a lot of time left”.

Ms O’Connell said it was Donal’s request to put the money, in its entirety, into an account for his sister Jema’s education.