Draw for Quater Finals of the Irish Mace

The draw for the Quarter Finals of the Irish Mace:

Quarter Final 1:
Sunday 5th March, UCC, 2pm
Motion: 'THBT the NAACP should publicly condemn Chris Brown'
1st Prop: UCC Philosoph (Becky West & Davy Jones)
1st Opp: TCD Hist (John Doody & Liam O’Neill)
2nd Prop: UL DebU (Stephen Egan & David Hartery)

Quarter Final 2:
Monday 12th March, Dublin (place TBC), 7pm
Motion: THW ban “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding”
1st Prop: TCD Hist (John Engle & Adam Noonan)
1st Opp: TCD Hist (Lorcan Cullen & Chris Rooke)
2nd Prop: TCD Phil (Ricky McCormack & Fletch Williams)
2nd Opp: UCD L&H (Sarah Taaffe-Maguire & Cormac Duffy)

Quarter Final 3:
Monday 12th March, Dublin (place TBC), 7pm
Motion: TTHW abolish the two categories for Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress at the Academy Awards and award only gender neutral Oscars for Best Acting and Best Supporting Acting
1st Prop: UCD L&H (Ciaran Garrett & Michael O’Dwyer)
1st Opp: TCD Hist (Ciaran Parkin & Kate Oliver)
2nd Prop: UL Deb U (Lorna Bogue & Michelle Coyle)
2nd Opp: NUIG (Shane Gavin & Ruth Cormican)

Quarter Final 4:
Tuesday 13th March, Dublin (place TBC), 7pm
Motion: TTHBT notable LGB figures should not describe their sexuality as a choice
1st Prop: TCD Phil (Derwin Brennan & Orflaith Sheehy)
1st Opp: Kings Inns (Aine Hartigan & Liam O’Connell)
2nd Prop: UCD L&H (Christine Simpson & Mark Haughton)
2nd Opp:DCU (Ceile Varley & David Gormley)

Highlights of the Irish Times Final 2012

Here is a YouTube video of the "highlights" of the Irish Times Final 2012. It's not very long and even then there is a bit too much filler material and not enough footage from the debate but it features some of the speeches by the winners.

RCSI and UCD Med Soc win Irish Times 2012

Eoin Kelleher and Elizabeth Ahern-Flynn from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have won the 2012 Irish Times Debating Competition (the Irish national Championships).  Michael Conroy of the UCD Medical Society won the individual prize. The motion for the final was “That This House Would Abolish Prisons”,

Runners-up in the team category were Mark Haughton and Christine Simpson of UCD’s Literary and Historical Society, and Liam Brophy of the College Historical Society, TCD, in the individual category

The other finalists were Ian Curran and Adam Noonan of the TCD Historical Society, and Ruth Keating and Rebecca Keating of the TCD Philosophical Society.  In the individual category the finalists were Hannah Lucey of the UCD Literary and Historical society, and Rían Derrig of the TCD Historical Society.

Finalists in the 2012 Irish Times

After 4 months of debating the Irish Times Finalists have now been announced.

Teams:
1st Prop - TCD Hist - Ian Curren & Adam Noonan
1st Opp - TCD Phil Ruth Keating & Rebecca Keating
2nd Prop - RCSI Eoin Kelleher & Elizabeth Ahern-Flynn
2nd Opp - UCD L&H Mark Haughton & Christine Simpson

Individuals:
1st Prop - UCD Med Soc Michael Conroy
1st Opp - TCD Hist - Liam Brophy
2nd Prop - UCD L&H Hannah Lucey
2nd Opp - TCD Hist Rian Derrig

The grand Final will be held on Friday the 17th of February in the Royal College of Surgeons. The motion for the final will be This house would Abolish Prisons.  The guest chair will be Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and innovation Richard Bruton TD.

UL Open 2012

Hey one and all,

The UL Open 2012 will be taking place on the 9th and 10th of March this year and promises to be the best one yet!

The team cap is provisionally set at 32 teams.

We have a wonderful and very enthuastic CA team this year including:
-UCD's finest Christine Simpson (WUDC semi-finalist!,EUDC quarter Finalist 2011,Cambridge 2011 quarter Finalist,Oxford quarter Finalist 2011, Edinburgh Open 2011 Winner,most importantly UL Open 2011 Finalist and too many other breaks too mention)
-UL's (whatevs NUIG) own Maurice Cotter (UL Open 2011 Finalist,UCD Earlsfort Open Finalist 2011,Cork IV 2010 Semi-Finalist,Cork Open 2011 Finalist and various other accomplishments such as best speaker wins etc.)

Our Tabmaster is Harry McEvansoneya (UL Open Finalist), who has run tabs at EUDC(!!!),SOAS, UCD, Maynooth and Trinity as well as being an excellent tabmaster at last year's IV. He has confirmed he will be mostly sober so huzzah!

As always UL never fails to feed its guests and there will be food and drink in abundance including baked goods on arrival (provided ye arrive on time)!

Reg will open on January 30th 2012.
Payment in advance of the IV is 60euro.
Payment on the day is 70euro.
There will be a reduced reg fee for UK teams (30 euro) and non-IONA teams (FREE).

We have a limited amount of crash, with the first priority being making sure any judges that travel are comfortable and any non-Irish teams are also a priority so if you could book accommodation for the weekend where possible it would be great. If you need crash, don't be afraid to contact me and I'll endeavor to help.

There is a certain amount of money set aside for funding judges to come down to Limerick, if you're interested in coming drop me an email or a phone call (ulopen2012@gmail.com and 0870569164 respectively) and I'll do my best to accommodate you. There will be much free drink and appreciation.

Any questions, feel free to contact me at ulopen2012@gmail.com.

Best wishes,
Michelle Coyle
IV Convenor

TCD Hist dominate Cork IV

The TCD Hist team of Ian Curran and Adam Noonan have won the 2011 Cork IV. 

In the final they defeated TCD Phil (Rosalind ni Shuilleabhain & Fletch Williams) TCD Phil (Ricky McCormack & Dave Byrne) and TCD Hist (John Engle and Andrew Linn).

John Engle (TCD Hist) and Sally Rooney (TCD Hist) topped the speaker tab.  John Prasifka and Michael Coleman (you guessed it TCD Hist) won the novice competition.

The Invitational (held the night before the IV proper was won by TCD Hist (Sally Rooney and John Engle)

The full tab can be found here (in case you want to check that other colleges actually took part)

Motions: (wordings may not be exact)
Final: That this house would ban all former combatants from any military conflict from ever serving in elected office
Semi: That This House Believes That The State Should Ensure That Each Citizen Is Paid a National Salary to Ensure That Their Income is Exactly Equal Regardless of Whether They are Employed or not or of Their Occupation
Novice Final: That This House Believes That The State Should Have No Role in the Recognition of Marriage!

Kings Inns win Irish Times 2011



Mark Thuillier winner of the individual award.

 The Kings Inns Team of  Lorcan Price and Áine Hartigan have won the 2011 Irish Times Debating Championships (the Irish Nationals).  The final took place at Griffith College and the motion was "This House would default".

TCD Law (Ross O’Mahony and Mark Thuillier) were runners up in the team competition.  Mark Thuillier also took home the prize for best individual (an award that is open to both team speakers and individual speakers). Janine Ryan (UCD L&H) was the individual runner up.

The final was made up of teams and individuals from TCD, UCD, Dublin City University and Kings Inns.

For more information see the Irish Times article here