Yes, Last night we had a very good meeting. For once our timekeeping went out the window as we had to put up with an over-enthusiastic attendance, but we still managed to get finished by about 9:45. Having started at 8 and managed to get through three speeches – 9:45 wasn’t too bad.
Our first speech was from John Skeates, one of our most experienced members. In a 14 minute advanced speech, “That’ll do ferry nicely”, John took us on several trips: Cork – Fishguard in the 50′s, Portsmouth – Bilbao, and even as far as Bergen, Norway and Hong Kong.
Our second speech was from Kieran Coffey who is in training for a best-man’s speech. I don’t want to give away the game here, but it’ll be gas!
Finally, Kris Meulemans, our newest member, gave his Ice Breaker speech. This is where a new Toastmaster gets to speak for about 5 minutes on themselves. No easy task – But Kris did an excellent job. We are looking forward to his coming speeches.
The night finished on a high with the inaugural presentation of the perpetual Cremin-Connolly trophy to Michael Murphy, Macroom’s representative in the recent International Speech contest. Pictures will follow soon.
The only thing the night was missing were guests, so please do come along on the 27th if you think Toastmasters is for you.
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