‘Dónal has made a difference to this world in 16 short years’

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

His story touched the hearts of the nation, both young and old. A 16-year-old who had been dealt a cruel hand, diagnosed with cancer at 12, told after three years of chemo, operations, and heartache that it was terminal.

Pissed off with the world, you’d presume? Questioning God or even his existence? Not a bit of it, in fact he embraced the world, he thanked God for life, for his parents Elma and Fionnbar, and sister Jemma, and his “brothers” James, Cormac, Hugh, and John.