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164th Session 2013 - 2014

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The 164th Session ran from 1st June 2010 to 1st June 2011.

A spending cap of €20,000 introduced by the Societies Guild meant that there was quite a lot of budget slashing at the beginning of the year. However the session still managed an incredibly successful competitive year, seeing UCC take home the National Maidens win, and the Trinity IV win.

The Cork IV was particularly successful, and received very positive feedback, making a profit despite very little guild funding. The Cork EUDC 2016 bid originated in the 164th session, convened by Ciara Grant, which would ultimately be defeated by a bid from Warsaw at Zagreb EUDC 2014.

Committee

• Auditor: Ruth Lawlor
  
• External Vice-Auditor: Conor O' Brien
  
• Internal Vice-Auditor: Cormac O'Brien (resigned) Michelle Coyle
  
• Finance Officer: Anna Cremin
  
• Social Secretary: Sarah Dunphy
  
• PRO: Katie Mullane
  
• Schools Convenor: James Reidy
  
• IV Convenor: Ciara Grant
  
• Development Officer: Katie Dennison
  
• Recording Secretary: Kevin O' Toole (resigned)
  
• Webmaster: Markus Knutsson
  
• Ex-Officio: Davy Jones
  
• First Year Rep: Kelly Doherty
• Schools Development Officer: Eva Cummins

Ordinary Meetings

This house would not have children

• First Prop Michelle Coyle
• First Opp Gearoid Wrixon

This house would go Nuclear

• First Prop Jim Morrissey
• First Opp Dan Boyle

'This house believes that courts should be able to issue assassination warrents

• First Prop Gearoid Wrixon
• Second Prop Barry O Gorman
• First Opp Aaron Vickery
• Second prop Aisling Galvin

- PMT: "This house believes that Ruth should be overthrown in a violent coup and replaced with Barry" - Defeated

This house believes that God is fraud

• First Prop Michael Nugent
• First Opp Ronan Fitzpatrick

This house would ban blurred lines on campus

• First PropAine Mangaoang
• First Opp Katie Dennison

This house believes that if you've got it, flaunt it

• First Prop Dr Catherine Hakim
• First Opp Gearoid Wrixon

The state of the Russian LGBT* movement

• This was a talk delivered by Max Krzyzanowski

This house would ban hunting

• The meeting was conducted with representatives from ARAN and the Hunting Association of Ireland, John Carmody and Dickie Power

Surviving Death Row

• This was a talk with death row surviviors Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs

This house believes the Union of Students Ireland is no longer relevant to students

• First Prop Greg Higgins
• Second Prop Barry O Gorman
• First Opp Joe O Connor
• Second Opp Paddy Guiney

Internal Maidens Final

• First Prop Sean Crowley
• Second Prop Eoin McSweeney
• Third Prop Luke Delaney
• First Opp Kelly Doherty
• Second Opp Ellen Flanagan
• Third Opp Colm Cathalan

Winner Kelly Doherty

Extraordinary General Meetings

Cork Invitational Final

CA: Sophie Scannell West Wing, UCC, Thursday 28th November, 2013

Cork IV Final

Aula Maxima, UCC, Saturday 30th December 2013
CA: John Beechinor Christine Simpson Harish Natarajan
Winning Team: UCD L&H A Sophie Scannell and Michael O Dwyer

Maidens Final

UCC Council Chambers
CA: Michelle Coyle
Jointly Hosted with UCC Law Society
Winner: Kelly Doherty

Competitive

• UCD VPC:
  

Breaking Judge Gearoid Wrixon

• Trinity IV: Dean Swift 2014
  

Winners Michelle Coyle and Gearóid Wrixon
Semi Finalists Davy Jones and Barry O Gorman
Quarter-finalists Ruth Lawlor and Conor O Brien

• The Irish Times Debating Competition
  

Finalists Ruth Lawlor and Michelle Coyle
Semi Finalist Individual Cormac O Brien
Runner Up Individual Ruth Lawlor

• John Smith Memorial Irish Mace
  

Finalists: Michelle Coyle and Conor O Brien
Davy Jones and Barry O Gorman
Novice Semi Finalists Kelly Doherty and Clíona Cowhig
Novice Final Judge Ruth Lawlor

• Galway National Law Debates 2014
  

Finalists Michelle Coyle and Lorna Bogue (UCC/UL Composite)

• National Maidens' Debating Competition 2014
  

Winner Kelly Doherty

• Limerick Open 2014
  

CA Barry O Gorman Finalists (Breaking 1st) Michelle Coyle and Ciara Grant
Breaking Judges Davy Jones

• IT Tallaght IV
  

Finalists Ruth Lawlor and Conor O Brien
Semi Finalists Gearoid Wrixon and Sean Crowley

• DCU Open 2013
  

Semi-finalists Kelly Doherty and Jamie Donnelly (UCC/TCD Composite)
Breaking Judge [[Ben Ó Húrdail]

• Society achievements
  

Bene Merenti
Ruth Lawlor
Individual Achievement Competitive
Michelle Coyle

Winner:
Best Political and Debating Society

Runner Up:
Best Poster

Shortlisted:
Best Event (Noam Chomsky)
Best Community Engagement (Munster Schools' Debating Programme)
Best Financial Management

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