It's been a busy couple of weeks for the Debating Society - if you've missed out, here's what's been going on...
Congratulations to our first two senior Aoife Begly teams who made it through their first rounds of the competition - especially as they are all first-time speakers. Good luck also to the other two teams who are out tonight in Maynooth, debating the finer points of such blasphemous motions as TTHW Cancel Christmas and TTHW Give Rudolph a Nose Job. (Torn between wanting to kill the convenor and wanting to congratulate him on his twisted sense of humour!)
Last Saturday saw two Senior speakers - Colm O'Riada and David Bennett - and two Junior speakers who pretended to be Seniors - Heather Fitzpatrick and Chris McMahon - battle it out at the Cambridge Trials which for the third year running have been hosted by CCC. Unfortunately the victory went to Conleth's but they put up a good fight in what was a fiercely competitive day. Kudos also to our Senior and Junior speakers who gave up their time and energy to come down to the school and help out.
On a side note, good luck to all those debators who auditioned for the VEC Festival of Music on the same day!!
Mr Auditor is running an excellent Internal League this year, ably assisted by his Deptuy Auditor, and it has been exceptionally successful in drawing in not only first-time speakers but some of our Junior veterans too. Congratulations to all who have taken part so far, your dedication and debating skills are something to be very proud of. :)
Finally, the much-anticipated Debating Christmas Party will take place next Thursday lunchtime in Room 30 - an event applauded every year by the Society veterans - so make sure you're there unless you want to miss out on all the awesome goodies that Mr Hopkins and Ms McGrath always manage to organise for us - thanking them in advance!!
