Division A Governor 2013-14.

Eddie O' Mahony was elected unopposed as the 2013-14 Division A Governor. Eddie is currently a member of the Blarney Toastmasters Club, having previously served as President of Glanmire Toastmasters, and was involved in founding the PMG and Cork Leeside Toastmaster Clubs.
Eddie served as Area 3 Governor, 2011-12 and has served as Assistant Division Governor since 2012. Best wishes to Eddie for the forthcoming Toastmaster year.

Torquay Conference.

Tom Hebel, Apple Computers Cork, did Division A proud at the District 71 Conference, being one of the two Irish Competitors who qualified from the International Speech Contest semi-finals to compete at the final, held on May 11th.

Division A contests

 

From left: Ronnie Gillanders, District 71 PRO, Ray Ryan, Division A Governor,  Anthony Galvin, Ivan O' Sullivan, Kevin Walsh & Tom Hebel.

Division A held its round of the International Speech and Evaluation contests at the Oriel House Hotel, Ballincollig, on Sunday April 21st.  Vicky McCarthy, Area 36 Governor, was contest chair and Eddie O' Mahony, was topicsmaster.  In attendance was Ronnie Gillanders, District 71 PRO, while the test speech for the evaluation contest was delivered by Christina Hession, Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters.

The Paul G Murphy award was presented to Ivan O' Sullivan, Midleton Toastmasters, who was a past Area Governor and District Secretary,

Results of the contest were as follows:

International Speech Contest

1st Anthony Galvin, Cork Toastmasters.
2nd Tom Hebel, Apple Toastmasters, Cork.
3rd Kevin Walsh, Fermoy Toastmasters.

Evaluation contest:

1st Anthony Galvin, Cork Toastmasters.
2nd Pat Sexton, Speakeasy Toastmasters, Mallow.
3rd John Keating, EMC Toastmasters.

Division A Contest

The Division A final of the International Speech and Evaluation contests will be held at the Oriel House Hotel, Ballincollig, Sunday April 21st, 14;00 for 14;30 start. District 71 PRO, Ronnie Gillanders will be attending. The Paul G Murphy award, honouring outstanding service to the Division will be presented at the contest.  

 

Area 36 contest results.

Area 36 held its final of the International Speech and Evaluation contests at the Desmond Complex, Newcastle West on April 17th. Ursula Daly, Killarney Toastmasters, won the Speech Contest and Martin O' Sullivan, Tralee Toastmasters, won the evaluation contest.

Area 23 contest results.

Area 23 held its final of the international speech and evaluation contests at Bru Columbanus, Wilton on April 10th. Anthony Galvin, Cork Toastmasters, won both contests.

Area 11 Results

The Area 11 final of the international speech and evaluation contest were held at O' Donovan's Hotel, Clonakilty on April 8th. Ger O' Leary, Kinsale & District Toastmasters won the Speech contest while
Rosemary Dickson, Clonakilty Toastmasters won the Evaluation contest.