27 Nov

Speakeasy Toastmasters Mallow

Notes for publication on 27th November.

Members and guests at the meeting held on the 13th November heard Sean Lynch describe the importance and significance of the sayings and beliefs we learn as children, in a speech entitled ‘On my mother’s knee’. The information we receive throughout life may be positive or negative and will determine how well we will react to the situations and crises we may encounter. Noel O’ Conner evaluated Sean’s speech. The final speech of the evening was evaluated by Vivienne Buckley and was given by Gerry O’ Callaghan who had us all in gales of laughter when he delivered his prize-winning speech – ‘Toby’s Eulogy’ to the club for the second time. It gets funnier with every delivery, and I believe he gave a fine performance in Edinburgh during the District finals held on 14-16th November. By all accounts both Gerry and Kieran Buckley did us proud – again! It was a wonderful achievement for them to get to that level of competition – well done again lads.
A lively and entertaining Topics session was held following five wonderful speeches. Topics master for the evening was Mary Stack who started by asking Pat Duggan whether he enjoyed exercise or was he a ‘couch potato’. There was plenty of discussion following this topic as people debated the finer points of Pat’s favourite exercise which is hill-walking. Members and guests heard about the merits of Kilimanjaro versus Carrauntoohill - but maybe we should just take up farming if we all want to do is get wet and cold, muddy and exhausted? Other topics which were discussed included - the smoking ban, how to answer the dangerous question ‘does my bum look big in this?’ and best ever inventions. Don’t worry, guests are never asked to directly respond to a topic! However, every topic is open for discussion to everyone present once it’s thrown out to the floor.

Our next meeting is on Thursday, 27th November 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