The Adrian Mitchell Society
Adrian Mitchell from Letterkenny was only six years old when he died on 20th March 1987. He had suffered a long illness but bore his suffering bravely.
As his family doctor Dr James McDaid comments in his President’s message on this site, “the memory of little Adrian's courage in his battle against his fatal illness became a catalyst for the development of the Hospice movement in Donegal.”
Adrian attended Scoil Colmcille in Letterkenny, and pupils from that school have been very much involved in the activities of the Society and in helping to keep his name alive.
Last year a memorial plaque was placed on Adrian’s grave by the chairman of the Society, Judge John O’Donnell, and the founder and secretary Mary Kavanagh-Chandler.
TREE TIME - Mary Kavanagh Chandler and Billy Alexander, who looks after
the garden at the Donegal Hospice, take delivery of another twenty trees for
planting there.
