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.
| Year | Contest winner | Club | World Championship |
| 2018 | Deidre 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 |
