Individual winner of Ireland’s oldest third-level debating event is Oliver McKenna of Munster Technological University
Those arguing against it said an election would be divisive, lead to “mob rule” and create a “breeding ground for power-hungry individuals”.
A dozen speakers took part in the final at St Ann’s Church on Dublin’s Dawson Street on Friday evening, the culmination of a competition that began last autumn and attracted more than 150 third-level contestants. Individual speakers included those from University of Galway’s Lit & Deb , Queen’s University Belfast’s Literific , DCU Debating Society and Munster TU .
The judging panel included Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic; Prof Brent Northup, chair of communications, Carroll College and founder of Pax; and former Irish Times Debate winners Bernadette Quigley, Daniel Gilligan and Chikemka Abuchi-Ogbonda. The Irish Times Debate competition, which began in 1960, is an all-island debating championship, open to any full-time third-level student.
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