College Green
Dublin 2, Co. Dublin
Ireland
‘THAT THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT THE STORY OF CINDERELLA IS NO LONGER SUITABLE FOR OUR CHILDREN’ will be the motion up for debate at the Grand Final of our Mayo Schools’ Debating Competition, which takes place in Trinity College Dublin on Saturday 17 November.
Those taking part in this year’s Grand Final of the Mayo Schools’ Debating Competition are as follows: TEAM FINALISTS: Ballinrobe Community School; Davitt College (Castlebar); St. Gerald’s College (Castlebar) and St. Marys Secondary School, Ballina. INDIVIDUAL SPEAKER FINALISTS: Fleur Griffin (St Louis Community School, Kiltimagh); Seán Connelly (Scoil Muire agus Padraig, Swinford); Hazel O’Grady (Sancta Maria College, Louisburgh); and Tadhg Murphy (St Gerald’s College, Castlebar).
The Perpetual Trophy will be presented to this year’s ‘Winning School Team’ together with a medal for the ‘Best Individual Speaker’ of the competition, which will be decided upon by our panel of adjudicators – Ms Justice Mary Laffoy (who will chair the panel), former TD Pat Rabbitte; Iarla Mongey, Director of Q4PR; Dr Carmel Heaney of GMIT and former Chair of Mayo Association Dublin; and Padraic Lyons BL, former convenor and finalist of The Irish Times debate.
The competition again carries the proud patronage of former President of Ireland, Dr Mary Robinson (current Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin). And we also wish to sincerely thank Bank of Ireland (Mayo) and Mayo.ie for their renewed and invaluable sponsorship of this event.