Traditional college society stages event where eight students debated 26 motions for almost 28 hours
Hist members Stephen Ryan, Mary Woods, Sebastain Dunne-Fulmer, Anna Sawiicka, Ziyad Anwer, Tom Francis, Aine Kennedy, Malika Maniar, Kate Henshaw, Daniela Williams and Caoimhin Hamillat with Guinness World Record's adjudicator Joanne Brent. Photograph: Tom Honan
Despite exhaustion, society auditor Áine Kennedy, who had been awake throughout, was in lively form. “I was lucky – one of the motions was that ‘This House Believes that the Continuance of the Auditor in Office is an Obstacle to an Efficient, United and Extended Administration of the Society’. It was defeated,” she said with a smile.
The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: Laddism is especially jolting in this attempt to bring 1990s British TV backExpelled from school at 14, now she is an associate professor in educationEight speakers, two teams of four, were required to debate each motion. They include Kate Henshaw, Mary Woods, Tom Francis, Anna Sawicka, Daniela Williams, Ziyad Anwer, Caoimhin Hamil and Sebastian Dunne-Fulmer.
Over the centuries, TCD authorities expelled the Hist twice, but it continued even if it had to sometimes relocate its meetings outside the college walls.