It was a great weekend of debating for students of Loreto College, St Stephen's Green. 

Junior Debaters were busy competing in the St Conleth's Junior Mace.  All our teams competed excellently and we are pleased to announce that Grace Given and Sarah Duffy emerged victorious.  Well done girls.

Meanwhile, the Phil Speaks debating competition was taking place in Trinity College for senior cycle students. Like their junior counterparts, all our students competed well and we were delighted to see that two teams from our school (Ella McLoughlin and Aishling Kinsella, Niamh Ryan and Saoirse Kilgarriff) were amoung the eight teams that progressed to the semi finals where they were awarded medals for their achievement.  The success didn't end there as Niamh and Saoirse managed to progress to the final where they gave excellent speeches in opposition to the motion “That this house would live forever”.  We are pleased to announce that the girls won the final and so emerged as Phil Speaks champions.  Well done to all our debaters on a fantastic weekend for debating in Loreto College.

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