19 Feb

Speakeasy Toastmasters Mallow

Topics and upcoming events

A lively and entertaining Topics session was held following five wonderful speeches on Thursday, 5th February, last. The man responsible for hosting the session was John Dillon whose topics were guaranteed a lively and spirited response. The Topics session allows people to ‘think on their feet’ by responding, unprepared, to topics delivered by the night’s Topic master. John asked first of all if picture messaging mobile phones should be banned from our schools. This was followed up by a brave choice of topic which was certain of a lively response – ‘are women, since Eve, always at fault?’ And then – ‘what do you suppose would be the conversation between Jackie Healey-Rae and the Queen if they were becalmed together off the Old Head of Kinsale?’ Topics became a little more serious when John asked if better use could have been made of the billions of dollars spent by the USA on the trip to mars, and, is the new book ‘PS I love you’, deserving of fame? Finally John got the farmers on their feet when he touched on the topic of allowing access onto farmland for walkers.

If you wish to learn more about what goes on at a Toastmaster meeting you can come along to the Community Celebration Day, being organised by Mallow’s RAPID group, on 21st February, to be held at the Hibernian hotel from 11:00. Speakeasy Toastmasters club members will be on hand to talk to any interested individuals about the club’s activities. In addition, club president Pat Duggan will give a talk about Toastmasters, at 4:30pm in Room 2, upstairs in the hotel.

Other dates for your diary;
The club will be hosting its annual Evaluation contest and along with the usual programme of terrific speeches we ask you to join us at our next meeting on Thursday, 19th February. The meeting will start at 8:00 pm and we ask everyone to be at The Hibernian Hotel (Chapel Lane) at 7:50 pm.

Following that there will be the Club International Speech contest on March 4th, and the Area 17 International Speech & Evaluation Contests on March 20th, which will be held in Charleville. The Club Tall Tales contest will be held on April 1st.