Historical Icebreakers Theme Night

Club members are gearing up for another of Speakeasy’s famous theme meetings. The theme of the clubs next meeting will be of historical icebreakers. Six members will dress in period costume and give a speech about an important historical person in the first person. In attendance we will have names such as Edel Quinn, Canon Sheehan and Elizabeth Bowen to mention a few.

The theme night meeting will take place on Thursday the 6th March. Everybody is welcome to attend and a great night’s entertainment and education is assured. The meeting will begin at 8pm and finish at 10pm in the Hibernian Hotel and guests present will not be asked to speak. Tea and biscuits will also be provided.

The clubs last meeting which was held on the 20th February was very well attended with a great variety of speeches on the night. Bridie O’Connell who took on the role of toastmaster for the evening ensured that the meeting ran very smoothly and Tony O’Regan as topics master got the members thinking and speaking on their feet with a great mix of one word topics.

Marie Fitzpatrick delivered a very informative speech on the importance of our body language in everyday life. The speech gave all present plenty of food for thought. Michael Cronin evaluated Marie’s speech. Ray Ryan then used his speech to bring a very interesting proposal to the club members which created lots of discussion at the tea break. Helsa Giles delivered a very helpful evaluation on Ray’s speech.

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A Wee Trip

Club members enjoyed a very entertaining meeting on a recent trip to the Failte club

in Charleville. Anne O’Donovan of the speakeasy club gave a very appropriate speech

which was called ‘A Wee Trip’. Also on the programme from the speakeasy club were

Mary Buckley who was toastmaster for the evening, Jerry Mulcahy gave an evaluation

and Anne Buckley was general evaluator.

At Speakeasy’s last meeting Anne O’Donovan filled the role of topicsmaster. She had a

wide variety of topics which got the audience very involved in the session. Also on the

night Helsa Giles delivered a very entertaining speech about her hill walking holiday

and what was required to have an enjoyable trip. Ronan Condon evaluated the speech.

Sean Corcoran then followed with a very informative speech about Morse code which

provided the basis of all modern day electronic gadgets. The speaker’s use of the Morse

code machine added greatly to the impact of the speech. Bridie O’Connell evaluated

Sean’s speech.

The clubs next meeting will take place on this Thursday the 20th

is welcome to attend. The meeting will begin at 8pm and finish at 10pm in the

Hibernian Hotel and guests present will not be asked to speak. For more information on

toastmasters check us out on our website www.speakeasytoastmasters .com or follow us

on Facebook or Twitter.