You have read  here about our French debaters.  Our English rhetors are currently charging through Leinster (as they have charged through the history of schools debating).  And now Gang Gaeilge have joined the party!  Bainisteoir Fay had the boys and girls well-prepared and Emer Healy-O’Reilly, Conor Power and Oisín Dowling definitely did not let the tribe down and came first of four schools in this opening round match of the DÍOSPÓIREACHTAÍ AN PHIARSAIGH, run by Gael Linn.

Perhaps the fact that it was a home fixture helped: the presence of feisty muintir na háite such as Paul Ralph, Harry Mansfield and Gavin Nugent certainly did seem to spur the team onwards.  This being Irish debating (and this being St. Conleth’s), though the competition was fierce, it was also friendly and tae agus plé tar éis na díospóireachta.  Well done to Ms. Fay and the whole team.   They somehow found time and energy to prepare for the debate despite having taken part in another Irish Department outing the previous day, attending a performance of An Triail at UCD: a riveting play, indeed…  but it does tend to be a bit gruama.   It is even more impressive, then, that our team could still find their bronntanas do na gab!