At their meeting on Sept.16th there was a full programme with three speakers and three evaluators . Ray Ryan , Helen Hourican and Vivien Buckley certainly held the audiences' full attention. Ray's speech entitled the Umbrella told the story of the political assasination of a Bulgarian dissident . This murder was carried out in a street in London at a bus queue. It appeared at first a trifling accident . It was in fact a foul deed committed by injecting poison through the tip of the umbrella .
Helen Houriucans talk engaged her audience in role play when telling the five points used to make a sales pitch.. Vivien read an extract from the novel ' The curious Incident of The Dog In the Night- Time'by Mark Haddon. She read the section where the boy who suffered from Asperger's Syndrome describes the discovery of concealed letters send to him by his mother who had left the family home. This was poignant and the reading a tour de force.
Then there were the evaluations.
Pat Duggan was general evaluator.
Next was topics-master Michael Cronin. Topics were impish and good humour predominated.
All that was in the first half which was good scoring according to Mary Buckley , Toastmaster for the night whose theme was the Hurling Final.. After the usual cup of tea there was a Topics Contest. The contestant went out and re-entered in turn to face the question' What period of History would you have wished to Live in'. Five contestants participated . Two wished to live in the present age , three with romantic aspirations wished to live in the past. There was a winner and runner up but they were all winner when it came to entertainment and participation.
All this activity was presided over by President Sean Corcoran under the time keeping watchful eye of Michael Walshe . Sergeants at Arms Anne Buckley and Michael Donegan were efficient and welcoming as ,of course was guest greeter Jeremiah Ronayne. The President gave an account of the Clubs successful information night at Davis College and thanked the College for its generosity.
Next Meeting September 30th. It will be the night of the HUMOROUS SPEECH CONTEST. It should be a night to remember.
