Congratulations to past pupil of Mount Sackville, Catherine Murphy (elder sister of current Deputy Auditor Ellen Murphy) and former member of the CCC Debating Society, Niamh Ni Maoileoin (daughter of veteran debator Mr O Maoileoin) who recently represented Trinity College in the European Universities Debating Championships in Galway.
Debating on motions such as economic policies, philosophy and international relations, the competition was fierce and yet the girls battled to a final with Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. and narrowly missed out on the top prize, having come out the wrong side of the split decision.
However, Catherine was awarded best speaker and Niamh was ranked third in the competition - both incredible achievements as the standard of university speakers in notoriously high. There is an article about them on the Trinity College website - if anyone's interested, the link is as follows:
http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=1988&vs_date=2011-8-1
Congratulations to them both and we wish them all the best in their future debating adventures!!
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