Questions and Answers House Meeting

Press Release

To whom it may concern,

Just a quick note from UCC's Philosophical Society on a matter we thought may interest you. Please do also pass along the word to any interested colleagues.

Next Monday, the 25th of January we will be hosting a house meeting, in which we have invited speakers from all the major political parties to be a part of. The house meeting will be based on RTÉ'S Questions and Answers, and the house meeting will follow a similar format to the show. The special guest host for the evening will be Newstalk's Marc Coleman. Here are a list of speakers confirmed thus far:

Green Party - Sen. Dan Boyle
Labour - Alan Kelly MEP
Socialist Party - Cllr. Mick Barry

Others speakers are to be confirmed, we will give you more details as we have them.

Amongst topics up for discussion will include the current financial crisis, the civil partnership bill and the possible reintroduction of college fees.

We shall be having this debate, this coming Monday the 25th of January, in Boole 1 in the Boole Basement in UCC, at 19.30.

Feel free to contact me for anymore information, by replying to this e-mail, or by contacting our Internal Vice-Auditor, Claire O' Sullivan Greene at events@uccphilosoph.com.

Many thanks,

Emmet Curtin

UCC Philosoph at Worlds - Break

Unfortunately, none of the UCC Philosophical Society or UCC Law Society teams managed to break in Worlds. Commiserations to them, but they did a brilliant job of representing UCC in the largest student debating competition in the world. The UCC Law Society judges did not break either, however congratulations to Deirdre Milner of the UCC Philosoph who managed to break as a judge.

Well done guys and enjoy your time in Turkey!

UCC Philosoph at Worlds

Welcome back guys for what is probably going to be our last update before Christmas. We have had a great first half of the year so far but we still have more to come.

Right now our delegates are headed over to Turkey to compete in the WUDC 2010. Here are a list of the teams and the team names for those interested.

Teams:

UCC Philosoph A - Conall O Deasmhunaigh & Kieran Murphy
UCC Philosoph B - Becky West & Gearoid Wrixon
UCC Philosoph C - Maureen Haverty & John Beechinor

UCC Law A - Joseph Lynch and Cian Cassidy
UCC Law B - Kieran O' Sullivan and Barry O' Gorman,
UCC Law C - Sophie Scannel and Anna Violet Tiomney

Judges:

- Jesse
- Christina O' Sullivan
- Eoghan McSwiney
- Deirdre Milner

We will try to keep everyone updated with whatever information we can over the next few days, and we wish all of teams and judges the best of luck in Worlds.

Internal Mace Results

The winners of the Internal Mace Competition were Becky West and Gearoid Wrixon. The winner of the best speaker was Kieran Murphy.

Internal Mace Final

The Internal Mace Final takes place tonight at 19.30 in the UCC Council Chambers. Good luck to everyone competing.