Speakeasy Toastmasters Mallow
A mixed bag of Topics
The members of Speakeasy Toastmasters club heard five wonderful, entertaining and informative speeches last Thursday night in Chapel Lane. After the usual tea/coffee break it was back to business with the Topics session. This is the part of the meeting where individual members are asked to speak on a topic provided by the Topics Master – who was Angela Sheehan on this occasion. Typically topics can be on any subject - the main objective is to get people speaking for approximately 2 minutes, in an impromptu way. Anyone can ‘add-on’ to the topic with their own views, and speak for approximately a minute. On this evening the ideas for the topics came as ‘one-liners’, or were pulled from either of two bags; one which contained single words and the other contained a wide range of objects. For example, the objects presented for discussion included a golf ball, a rubber pint of Guinness and a boomerang. The boomerang sparked off very diverse responses including - being cautious of ‘boomerang’ words (which can come back to haunt you), holidays in Australia, and world cup rugby. The best topic award for the evening went to Margaret Buckley who entertained us with her account of a recent win on a scratch card.
Congratulations: Speakeasy Toastmasters club would like to heartily congratulate our four club members who did exceptionally well in the Area 17 Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests held in Fermoy last Tuesday, 12th October. Well done to Jerry O’ Callaghan and Michael Cronin who were in first and second place in the Humorous Speech contest, and equally well done to Kieran Buckley and Vivienne Buckley who won first and second place in the Table Topics Contest.
Date for your diary:
Saturday, 1st November, Division A final will be held in Blarney.
14 – 16th November, District Conference will be held in Edinburgh.
Our next meeting is on Thursday night, 30th October and, as usual, guests are very welcome to attend. The meetings start at 8:00 pm and we ask everyone to be at The Hibernian Hotel (Chapel Lane) at 7:50 pm.
If you would like to know more about Speakeasy Toastmasters club you can ring Angela at 022 51071 or Sean at 022 22755 for information. Or you can log onto our website; www.clix.to/speakeasy. The club’s e-mail address is speakeasymallow@eircom.net
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