The new year started off well for Speakeasy with a lovely meeting chaired in the capable relaxed style of Toastmaster for the night, Anne Buckley. It was a special pleasure that we were joined on the night by two speakers from the Nice and Easy Toastmasters Club, which is a club that Speakeasy President Jerry Mulcahy is very committed to.
Helen Buckley of the Nice and Easy is a frequent visitor to Speakeasy and yet again gave a lovely speech. It was on a topic of personal relevance to Helen,- the Special Olympics, as Helen herself has participated in golf in the Olympics, but also she incorporated some very interesting information about a Special Olympics group in Orange County South California who also have a Toastmaster Club called The Gavel Club. The confidence developed by members of this club is very useful in publicising the Special Olympics, and they have the great title of Global Messengers. Helen’s speech was very warmly received and evaluated by Angela Sheehan.
Brid Broderick of Nice and Easy was paying her first visit to Speakeasy and gave a delightful, humorous as well as informative speech on camels. Brid was complimented on her lovely delivery of this speech and great use of vocal variety which really brought out the humour in the speech. Brid’s evaluator was Marie Fitzpatrick. Speakeasy look forward to another visit from Brid and Helen.
There were two speakers from Speakeasy. Claire O’Connell gave a speech with the objective of persuading the audience. She chose the topic of political correctness, highlighting amusing examples such as maintenance hole for the politically incorrect manhole. The only PC in Claire‘s life is her laptop and she made a convincing appeal for abandoning political correctness. Her speech was evaluated by Michael Cronin
Rhona Coughlan gave a lovely speech with the delightful title;-” The typewriter when played with expression is less annoying than a piano played by a sister or near relative”. In it Rhona described her enchantment with learning the piano, with much humour and a great use of vocal variety. Her evaluator was Tony O’Regan.
The Topicsmaster for the night was Tom O’ Connor and he certainly excelled with many imaginative topics, such as the end result of 4 famous personages who shall be nameless, a hungry Bengal tiger, and a boa constrictor on a journey from Mumbai and what the end result would be! Of course club member Pat Sexton had an able answer.
The meeting was charmingly evaluated as a whole by Marie Lyons. Mary Moynihan provided the “word “of the night,- Ballyhoo, which indicates exaggeration and there was happily a bit of that.
All were welcomed to the meeting by our Guest Greeters,- Marie Lyons, Ronan Condon and Mary Moynihan.
Speakeasy Toastmasters meets every 2nd Thursday in the Hi-B.next meeting at 8pm Hibernian Mallow, Thursday Jan 24th. Non members are most welcome and are never asked to speak. Contact Jerry 0863752895,or Noel 0872427485.
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