INTERVARSITY
DEBATES 2002-2003
UCD Law Society A&L Goodbody
Shield
31st October 2002 at
UCD:
Dave Finn & Stephen Nolan
Peter O’Brien & Aaron Dubois
Eoin O’Connor & Catherine Roberts (LawSoc)
Winners:
Claire McHugh & Derek Lande (UCC Philosoph)
Best Speaker:
Brendan Kelly (TCD Hist)
UCD Literary & Historical Society Vice Presidents’
Cup
1st/2nd
November 2002 at UCD:
Martin Collins & Tony McDonnell
Sheelagh McGuinness
& Stephen Nolan
Cathy Farragher & Dave
Finn
Ellen MacSweeney & Louise
O’Connor
Aaron Dubois & Peter O’Brien
Maria McMullan & Robert Rooney
Winners:
Caleb Ward & Jack Anderson (Cambridge Union)
Best Speaker:
Brendan Kelly (TCD Hist)
Irish Times Debates, First Round
7th November 2002 at
UCD:
Ellen MacSweeney & Louise
O’Connor
Jenny Campbell & Peter Malone (LawSoc)
“that this house would ban alcohol
advertising”
9th November 2002 at
UCG:
Mark Hanniffy & Barry Ryan
Brian Sharkey & Laura Howley
“that this house would abolish compulsory
Irish in secondary schools”
9th November 2002 at
UCG:
Aideen Gleeson & Myles
Monaghan
Rory Browne & Eoin O’Donoghue
“that this house would provide free heroin to
addicts”
11th November 2002 at
TCD:
Nora Lydon & Barry Murphy
“that this house would welcome public
spending cuts”
11th November 2002 at
TCD:
Shauna Gillan & Jonathan Ryan (LawSoc)
“that this House would take the Angelus off
RTÉ”
12th November 2002 at
Griffith:
Kevin Leavy & Tony
McDonnell
Katie Mannion & Ruairí Talbot
“that this house would reintroduce third
level fees”
12th November 2002 at
Griffith:
Martin Collins & Daniel Duffy
“that this house would wear the
poppy”
13th November 2002 at
King’s Inns:
Jane Cregan & Sheelagh McGuinness
“that this house believes the
McKenna judgement prevents governments from governing”
13th November 2002 at
King’s Inns:
Jennifer Allen & Peter O’Brien
“that this house believes Sky TV has been
good for sport”
14th November 2002 at
DCU:
Daniel Curran & Anne Marie Gavin
“that this house believes the Irish Green
Party has lost its way”
14th November 2002 at
DCU:
Joe Powderly & Robert
Rooney
“that this house supports gay
adoption”
15th November 2002 at
TCD:
Ciara Sims & Davet Hyland
Jane McGuinness
“that this house believes Arafat is an
obstacle to peace”
15th November 200 at
TCD:
Dave Finn & Keith Maye
Damien Guihen
“that this house believes birth should be no
guarantee of citizenship”
16th November 2002 at
UL:
Declan Burke & Niamh
Desmond
Stephen Nolan & Susan Treacy
“that this house believes that
neutrality is the last refuge of the Irish scoundrel”
16th November 2002 at
UL:
Mícheál Mac Donnchadha & Stephen Whelan
“that this house regrets the hyper-sexualisation of western society”
Qualifying for second
round:
Louise O’Connor & Ellen MacSweeney
(team)
Mark Hanniffy & Barry Ryan (team)
Peter Malone & Jenny Campbell (team)
Shauna Gillan & Jonathan Ryan
(team)
Myles Monaghan (individual)
Peter O’Brien (individual)
Dave Finn (individual)
Keith Maye (individual)
Declan Burke (individual)
Stephen Nolan (individual)
Oxford Union Intervarsity
8th/9th
November 2002 at Oxford:
Dave Finn & Sharon Dillon-Lyons
Peter O’Brien & Aaron Dubois
Barry Crushell & Stephen
Nolan
Tony McDonnell & Eoin O’Connor (LawSoc)
Winners:
Alex Deane & Jeremy Brier (Middle Temple)
Best Speaker:
Wu-Meng Tan (Cambridge Union)
Tab
Jolene Tan
Final
Cambridge Union Intervarsity
15/16th November 2002
at Cambridge: James Hope &
Sheelagh McGuinness
Winners:
Ranjan Agarwal &
Sunil Mathai (Ottawa)
Best Speaker:
Nick Pacheco (Oxford Union) Tab
Ranjan Agarwal (Ottawa)
Final
John Smith Memorial Mace, First
Round
20th November 2002 at
DCU:
Ellen MacSweeney & Louise
O’Connor
“that this House would ban all religious
education in schools in Ireland”
23rd November 2002 at
UCC:
Finbarr Murphy & Peter
O’Brien
“that this House would liberalise Ireland’s
drinking laws”
25th November 2002 at
TCD:
Cathy Farragher & Anne Marie
Gavin
“that this House would abolish free third
level fees”
29th November 2002 at
TCD:
Aideen Gleeson & Nora Lydon
“that this House would get rid of the
privileged status of the Irish language”
29th November 2002 at TCD:
Martin Melvin & Robert Rooney
“that this House would not leave housing to
the marketplace”
30th November 2002 at UCG:
Dave Finn & Keith Maye
“that this House blames the unionists for the
current impasse in the peace process”
30th November 2002 at UCG:
Martin Collins & Daniel Duffy
“that this House would force feed
anorexics”
30th November 2002 at UCG:
Jane Cregan & Sheelagh McGuinness
“that this House would pay disadvantaged
teenagers to go to school”
3rd December 2002 at Griffith College: Micheál
MacDonnchadha & Eoin
O’Donoghue
“that this House would introduce
professionalism into the GAA”
Teams qualifying for second round:
Dave Finn & Keith Maye
Martin Collins & Daniel Duffy
Jane Cregan & Sheelagh McGuinness
Irish
Times Debates, Second Round
2nd December 2002 at TCD:
Ellen MacSweeney & Louise
O’Connor
Myles Monaghan
Shauna Gillan & Jonathan Ryan (LawSoc)
“that this House would have Tony Blair get up
off his knees”
2nd December 2002 at TCD:
Stephen Nolan
Peter O’Brien
Jenny Campbell & Peter Malone (LawSoc)
“that this House would introduce compulsory
drug testing in secondary schools”
3rd December 2002 at UCD:
Mark Hanniffy & Barry Ryan
Declan Burke
“that this House would means test the
children’s allowance”
5th December 2002 at Maynooth:
Dave Finn
“that this House would read Dr. Mengele’s research notes”
8th Decmber 2002 at
UCC:
Keith Maye
“that this House would welcome NATO’s
eastward march”
Speakers qualifying for semi-finals:
Barry Ryan
Declan Burke
Peter Malone
UCC Philosoph Intervarsity
6th/7th December at UCC:
Damien Guihen & Cathy Farragher
Nora Lydon & Aideen Gleeson
Anne Marie Gavin & Emer
O’Shea
Eoin O’Donoghue &
Brian Sharkey
Jennifer Doran & Martin Melville
Peter O’Brien & Aaron Dubois (LawSoc)
Winners:
Niall Kennedy & David Penny (Oxford Union)
Best Speaker:
David Whelan (UCD L&H)
John Smith
Memorial Mace, Second Round
18th January 2003 at UCD:
Jane Cregan & Sheelagh McGuinness
Daniel Duffy & Martin Collins
“that this House would welcome the return to
power of Ariel Sharon”
20th January 2003 at King’s Inns:
Keith Maye & Dave
Finn
“that this House supports the struggle of the
Chechens for national independence”
Team Qualifying for Semi-Final:
Keith Maye & Dave
Finn
Kingsmill Moore Intervarsity
23rd January 2003 at TCD:
Peter O’Brien & Dave Finn
Winners:
Colm Coyne & Leo Mulrooney (UCD L&H)
Dean Swift
Intervarsity
24th/25th January 2003 at TCD:
Sheelagh McGuinness
& Stephen Nolan
Peter O’Brien & Dave Finn
Winners:
Sam Collins & David Whelan (UCD L&H)
Irish
Times Debates, Semi-Finals
1st February 2003 at UCG:
Declan Burke
“that this House believes that the farmer’s
protest is worthy of support”
6th February 2003 at Griffith College: Peter Malone (LawSoc)
“that this House believes that war on Iraq is
a just cause”
8th February 2003 at UL:
Barry Ryan
“that this House would make holocaust denial
a criminal offence”
John Smith
Memorial Mace, Semi-Finals
13th February 2003 at Griffith College: Keith Maye
& Dave Finn
“that this House would rather have a George
W. than a Neville Chamberlain”
Glasgow
Ancients Invitational
14th February 2003 at Glasgow:
Martin Collins & Shauna Gillan
Sheelagh McGuinness
& Stephen Nolan
Barry Crushell & Peter O’Brien (LawSoc)
Results:
Collins & Gillan joint second place and
finalists
Winners:
Colm Coyne & Eoin
Purcell (UCD Law Society)
University
of Strathclyde Intervarsity
15th February 2003 at Strathclyde:
Martin Collins & Shauna Gillan
Sheelagh McGuinness
& Stephen Nolan
Barry Crushell & Peter O’Brien (LawSoc)
Winners:
Duncan Sagar & Diana Tansley (Edinburgh)
University
of Limerick Intervarsity
7th/8th March at UL:
Sheelagh McGuinness
& Stephen Nolan
Damien Guihan & James
Hope
Keith Maye & Peter
O’Brien
Cathy Farragher & Ellen MacSweeney
Winners:
Ian Kehoe & Michael Moriarty (DCU)
Intervarsity Winners
2003
Irish Times Debates:
Colm Coyne & Leo Mulrooney (UCD L&H)
Alison McIntyre (TCD Hist)
Irish Mace:
Stephen Coutts & Cian Murphy (UCC Law
Soc)
International Mace:
Stephen Coutts & Cian Murphy (UCC Law
Soc)
Worlds:
Jack Anderson & Caleb Ward (Cambridge Union)