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20 February 2012

RCSI and UCD Med Soc win Irish Times 2012

Eoin Kelleher and Elizabeth Ahern-Flynn from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have won the 2012 Irish Times Debating Competition (the Irish national Championships).  Michael Conroy of the UCD Medical Society won the individual prize. The motion for the final was “That This House Would Abolish Prisons”,

Runners-up in the team category were Mark Haughton and Christine Simpson of UCD’s Literary and Historical Society, and Liam Brophy of the College Historical Society, TCD, in the individual category

The other finalists were Ian Curran and Adam Noonan of the TCD Historical Society, and Ruth Keating and Rebecca Keating of the TCD Philosophical Society.  In the individual category the finalists were Hannah Lucey of the UCD Literary and Historical society, and RĂ­an Derrig of the TCD Historical Society.

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