<h2 class="p" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
	A NEW room for teenagers with cancer will open in the coming weeks at Crumlin Children&#39;s Hospital in Dublin &ndash; part of the incredible legacy of Donal Walsh.</h2>
<div>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		The &#39;teen room&#39; &ndash; funded by the &euro;150,000 raised in his name &ndash; will offer a haven for young people, something that was not available to Donal while he was a patient at the hospital.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		The teenager, who spoke out about teenage suicide and the lack of facilities for young people with cancer, has continued to have a huge impact three months after his death. Donal lost his own four-year battle with cancer surrounded by his family, at home in Blennerville in Kerry on May 12.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		Yesterday, on &#39;Donal&#39;s Day&#39;, his parents Elma and Fionnbar and his sister Jema took to the streets of Tralee and helped raise money for the causes close to Donal&#39;s heart.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		<strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em;">FESTIVAL</strong></p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		The family recently set up the Donal Walsh #Livelife Foundation. The organisers of the Rose of Tralee International Festival and local vintners approached the Walsh family seeking their permission to call the biggest day of the festival after him.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		Donal&#39;s mum Elma said it was a &quot;fantastic honour&quot;.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		&quot;Tralee honoured Donal when he died by the silence in the town &ndash; and again today having &#39;Donal&#39;s Day&#39; on the most important day of the festival &ndash; the Rose selection.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		&quot;It just beats any words really and it&#39;s humbling,&quot; Mrs Walsh told the Irish Independent.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		The family is still struggling to come to terms with his loss but has worked tirelessly to help promote his message.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		&quot;It isn&#39;t that it helps me cope, I&#39;m brokenhearted every day, but doing something for somebody else helps,&quot; said his mum.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		His dad Fionnbar added: &quot;It&#39;s still fairly raw. We&#39;re surviving day by day. Some days he creeps up on you and it&#39;s very emotional and there are other days when he&#39;s laughing at us. So, it&#39;s a mixture.&quot;</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		Donal&#39;s friends and members of Kerins O&#39;Rahilly&#39;s GAA club and Tralee Rugby Club rowed in behind the family at yesterday&#39;s fundraising drive.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		The Donal Walsh #Livelife Foundation has been approached by the national suicide prevention agency Console to furnish a room for teenagers at its Tralee offices.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		The foundation has also got behind a HSE initiative to prevent suicide that Mrs Walsh now hopes will be extended to reach even more young people.</p>
	<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
		<a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/donals-legacy-lives-on-in-teen-room-for-cancer-patients-29515243.html">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/donals-legacy-lives-on-in-teen-room-for-cancer-patients-29515243.html</a></p>
</div>
<p>
	&nbsp;</p>
