The Third Triumvirate?

As the gentleman involved here know well, there have only been two notable triumvirates in all of European history: those of  late Republican and early Imperial Rome.  Now, there are whispers and rumblings in the back-corridors of power that a third may soon appear to lead us through these troubling times…  Daniel Gilligan (Class of 2016), the ‘Baby-Face Killah’ of The Hist, is once again in the Finals of the Irish Times Debate, the pre-eminent third level debating championship in Ireland (won previously by PP Liam Brophy (2010).  And this time he leads a Conlethian troika, as he is joined by Conor White (2015) and Kevin Roche (2013).

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Kevin is currently using his bibulous barroom bluster to build quite a following amongst the brown-nosing barristers of King’s Inns while Conor has almost completed the process of gathering all the rings of power to himself in his hideout in UCD/Montrose/Mordor.  Of course, the debating skills of all three were honed in the hothouse of roiling rhetoric that is the St. Conleth’s debating scene, and you will soon read how the current crop of debaters are living up to the lofty examples of these predecessors, in good part due to the fact that St. Conleth’s debating alumni, including this trifecta, always return to their alma mater to assure another bumper crop.  So stay tuned, the Irish Times Debate Final is Friday, February 22nd and we have at least a three in eight chance of winning… and the bookies say that, really, it is odds-on!

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by Charles Latvis