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Contest finalists announced

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On May 8th & 9th, speech contest winners from all of our Divisions competed to find out who would be our finalists at the District Conference. The standard of competition was extremely high, and sadly only the top three from each semi-final can go through to the final.

Well done to all the participants and congratulations to our finalists (in alphabetical order):

Humorous Speech

  • Aaron Day
  • Graham Dunne
  • Ita Finnerty
  • Mike Keenan
  • Chris O’Byrne
  • Vandana Sharma

International Speech

  • Pat Caslin
  • Eileen Hopkins
  • Phillip Khan-Panni
  • Kyle Murtagh
  • Pat Power
  • Imaan Tamimi

Evaluation

  • Mathilde Fischer
  • Julian Hammond
  • MairĂ©ad Murphy
  • Kyle Murtagh
  • Ryan Parke
  • Kate Trafford

Table Topics

  • Aaron Day
  • Siobhan Fitzgerald
  • Sarina Mann
  • Colm McGlade
  • Prasanth Nair
  • Elizabeth Newman Earl

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