Current Year Winner
Year | Contest Winner | Club | World Champion |
2020 | Ashleigh Tobin | Wicklow Toastmasters |
For many Toastmasters, the International Speech Contest is a highlight of our year. Here is a list of the winners of the District 71 International Speech Contest, the only one where winners progress to the world championship was Phillip Khan in 2019.
Year | Contest winner | Club | World Championship |
2019 | Phillip Khan-Panni | Society Toastmasters, Dublin | Region 10 Quarter Final – 3rd place |
2018 | Deirdre Linehan | Speak Easy Club, Mallow | |
2017 | Vinette Hoffman-Jackson | Luton Speakers | |
2016 | Simon Scriver | Dublin Toastmasters | |
2015 | Jim Gregory | Manchester Orators | |
2014 | Chris Boden | Maidenhead Speakers | |
2013 | William Dempster | HOD Speakers | |
2012 | Yvonne Jordan | Enniscorthy Toastmasters | |
2011 | Malachi Talabi | Croydon Communicators | Inter-District – 3rd place |
2010 | Erick Rainey | Manchester Orators | |
2009 | Gareth McHale | Northavon | |
2008 | Sultan Nazir | Rathfarnham | |
2007 | Simon Bucknall | London Cardinals | Inter-District – 2nd place |
2006 | Simon Bucknall | London Cardinals | |
2005 | Erick Rainey | Capital Communicators | World Championship – 3rd place |
2004 | Erick Rainey | Capital Communicators | Inter-District – 2nd place |
2003 | Bob Harvey | Bromley Speakers | |
2002 | Bob Ferguson | Hertfordshire Speakers | |
2001 | Phillip Khan-Panni | London Athenians | Inter-District – 3rd place |
2000 | Brendan Toale | Glasnevin | Inter-District – 1st place |
1999 | Paul Ellis | Lucan | |
1998 | Joseph Portley | Crusaders | |
1997 | Brian Cluer | Thurles | |
1996 | Brendan Toale | Glasnevin | |
1995 | Phillip Khan-Panni | Grosvenor Square | World Championship – 2nd place |
1994 | Brian Cluer | Thurles | |
1993 | Phillip Khan-Panni | Bromley | Inter-District – 1st place |
1992 | Adrienne Daly | Naas | |
1991 | David Lindsey | Thame | |
1990 | Giles Robinson | Epsom | |
1989 | Muiris O’Keefe | Bray | |
1988 | Patricia Foley | Eblana | |
1987 | Michael Fennessy | Grosvenor Square | |
1986 | Betty Gosnell | Oxford | |
1985 | Marie Pyne | Ennis | World Champion! |
1984 | Denis Vickers | Thame | |
1983 | Ray Fullam | Dublin | |
1982 | Stephen Johnson | Mildenhall | |
1981 | Harry Knox | Waterford | |
1980 | Dick Cullinane | Waterford | |
1979 | Russ McDevitt | Dun Laoghaire | |
1978 | Susan Cowles | Oxford | |
1977 | David Lindsey | Aylesbury | |
1976 | Bob Annenberg | Aylesbury | |
1974 | Sean Hickey | Shannon | |
1973 | George Brenner | Shillelagh |