Ever wondered what Toastmasters is all about? Have a wedding speech or work presentation looming? Why not be entertained and educated at Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters’ next meeting, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp on Monday 28th May. Enjoy four prepared speeches and innovative impromptu speaking, poetry and even jokes! Get your week off to a great start. Visitors are always welcome to attend free of charge, and will not be asked to speak unless they wish to do so.
Congratulations to our VP Education, Clare O’Neill, who won the Toastmaster of the Year award at our AGM last night. Well done also to the Most Improved Toastmaster, Colm Woods. They are worthy recipients. Toastmaster, John Dineen, won the best contribution of the meeting prize. Welcome aboard to our 10th new member this year, Jason Donoghue. We had side splitting comedy from Conor, more comedy from his evaluator, John Murtagh and a dramatisation of ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ from Christina.
Officers elected at our AGM last night were: President: Mairead Murphy, VP Education: Christina Hession, VPPR: Marian Brennan, VP Membership: Colm Woods, Secretary, Brian Price, Treasurer: Conor Hayes and Sergeant at Arms: Donal Keating. Good luck everyone.
Best wishes to our Division C representatives at the WOW Conference in Wexford this weekend – our Area 16 winner, Eric Fitzpatrick from Glasnevin in the International Speech contest, and Philip O’Callaghan from Clontarf-Marino in the evaluation contest.
The election of officers for 2012-2013 takes place at our next meeting on Monday night. Following this, it will be business as usual with prepared speeches from members. Visitors are always welcome to attend, free of charge. If you want to give your interview skills a boost or need help with a work presentation, why not come along on Monday 14th May, to Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp.
Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters welcomes its newest members, Jonathan Tiernan and Richard McCormack. Brian Price was very impressive in his debut as Toastmaster. Laughter in abundance, during topics about tatoos, Man United, superstitions and favourite destinations. A side-splitting ice-breaker from Bosco, a project 2 from Padraic, an advanced leadership presentation about the Toastmaster promise from Mairead, and J.K. Rowling’s commencement address by Christina. Awards were presented as follows: best contribution, Bosco Farrell; best speech, Padraic Doherty; best evaluation, Donal Keating: and best topic response, Colm Woods. Next meeting, Monday 14th May, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, 8 pm sharp. Visitors welcome to attend free of charge. You will not be asked to speak, unless you wish to do so.
Always wondered what Toastmasters is all about? Do you need help with a work presentation? Have a nerve-wracking wedding speech coming up? Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters is here to help. Visitors are very welcome to attend our next meeting on Monday 23rd April, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. Enjoy four prepared speeches by members, and innovative impromptu speaking. Visitors won’t be asked to speak, unless they wish to do so. An entertaining and educational night is assured.
Happy Easter to all our online & Toastmaster friends. If you want to conquer your public speaking fears, or brush up on your interview skills – why not come along to our next meeting on Monday 23rd April, in the beautiful surroundings of Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. Visitors can attend free of charge, and will not be asked to speak unless they wish to do so. Enjoy four speeches – an ice-breaker (first speech), a project 2, an advanced leadership presentation and a monodrama (monologue) from the advanced interpretive reading manual. Add innovative impromptu speaking to the mix, and you have a recipe for an entertaining and educational night out. Hope to see you there.
Phoenix-Tara welcomed its newest members last night – Eric Fagan, Catherine Connolly & Kate O’Driscoll. Congrats to Marion Brennan on winning the best topic response. Topics included: getting rid of the family dog, excuses for a weekend away, Liverpool FC, violent video games, losing your mobile phone, fantasy laws you’d like to enact, Eircom & Dublin v Mayo. Speeches: Mairead Murphy (Evaluate to Motivate, Successful Club Series), Eric Fitzpatrick with ‘Sunflowers’ and Christina Hession, Read a Story, Interpretive Reading manual. Next meeting, Monday 23rd April, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, 8 pm sharp.
Do you want to improve your interview skills or re-ignite your career? Visitors are very welcome to attend our next meeting free of charge, on Monday 2nd April, in the luxurious Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. An entertaining and educational night is assured.
Congratulations to Eric Fitzpatrick, Glasnevin, who won both the Area 16 International Speech & Evaluation Contests hosted by Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters, last night. He will now go on to represent Area 16, in the Division C final in Belfast on Saturday 21st April. Best wishes from everyone at Phoenix-Tara.
AREA 16 FINAL
Clubs: Navan, Clondalkin, Lucan, Castleknock, Glasnevin & Phoenix-Tara
The contestants in next Monday’s Area 16 international speech & evaluation contests are: Speech contest – Pat Foley , Pat Connell , Liam Power , Barry Lane , Eric Fitzpatrick & Christina Hession . Contestants in the evaluation contest: Donal Keating , Aoife Shinners , Eric Fitzpatrick , Justin Barry , Jacinta Tighe & Helen O’Keeffe . The contest is hosted by Phoenix-Tara, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. It promises to a fabulous night of entertainment. Good luck to all contestants. Visitors are very welcome to attend.
Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters host the Area 16 International Speech & Evaluation contests, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, on Monday 26th March at 8 pm sharp.Contestants from Dunboyne, Navan, Castleknock, Clondalkin, Lucan & Glasnevin will bid to represent Area 16 in the Division C final in Belfast in April. A fabulous night’s entertainment is assured.
The results of our evaluation & international speech contests last night are as follows. Evaluation contest – 1st, Donal Keating; 2nd, Christina Hession & 3rd, Michael May. Speech contest: 1st, Christina Hession and 2nd, Mairead Murphy. Our winners go forward to the Area 16 final hosted by Phoenix-Tara in Dunboyne on Monday 26th March, at 8 pm sharp.
Monday 12th March is Phoenix-Tara’s international speech & evaluation club contest night. The winners will represent the club in the Area 16 final, hosted by Phoenix-Tara on Monday 26th March. Though it differs from our normal meeting schedule, guests are still very welcome to attend free of charge. The contests take place in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp.
Two Phoenix-Tara members were test speakers for evaluation contests in Area 16 this week.
Mairead Murphy achieved her ACB, with a test speech titled ‘A Lost Future’ in Clondalkin on Tuesday night. Area Governor and Phoenix-Tara member, John Dineen, was the chief judge. Congrats to Pat Connell and Justin Barry who won the international speech and evaluation contests respectively.
John McCormack delivered an excellent speech, ‘Happy Days’ in Castleknock last night. Congrats to Barry Lane & Aoife Shinners, who won the international speech and evaluation contests there.
Four new members signed up last night. Welcome aboard to Marion, Mary, Bosco and Kate. We had 10 visitors. Awards: best contribution – Mairead Murphy, best topic response – Jim Kavanagh, best speech – Padraig Doherty, best use of word ‘paparazzi’ – Colm Woods and best evaluator – Christina Hession.
In response to the potential wedding speakers, we met at Dunboyne Castle Hotel’s wedding fair last week, we have compiled a Top Ten Tips For Wedding Speeches.
Located under our ‘Tips’ section, the article will give you a taster of what we learn at Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters. To learn more about speechcraft or wedding toasts, why not come along tomorrow night (Monday 27th February) to Dunboyne Castle Hotel at 8 pm sharp. Visitors are always welcome free of charge, and will not be asked to speak unless they wish to do so.
Ever wondered what Toastmasters is all about? Come to our next meeting on Monday 27th February and find out. You’ll hear four prepared speeches, ingenius impromptu speaking, jokes and poetry. The most fun you can have on a Monday night, in Meath’s plushest hotel, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, meeting at 7.45 for an 8 pm sharp start. Hope to see you there.
It was lovely to meet all the potential wedding speakers, at Dunboyne Castle Hotel’s wedding fair today.
If you couldn’t make it, come along to our next meeting on Monday 27th February at the same venue at 8 pm sharp. We’ll show you how to wow them at the wedding.
Worried about an upcoming wedding speech? Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters will be attending this Sunday’s wedding fair, at Dunboyne Castle Hotel, from 1 – 5 pm. Looking forward to meeting you there.
Congrats to John McCormack on achieving his CC award, and winning best speech last night. Great Valentines’ topic session by Margaret McDonald, who won best contribution. Other speeches by Karl Neylon (project 7), Mairead Murphy (Storytelling 3) & Michael May (Speaking to Inform 1). Best topic response: Mary Gallagher (visitor) and best evaluation: Christina Hession. Other educational awards presented to Michael May & Donal Keating (ALB) and Christina Hession (ACB). Welcome to our 11 visitors. Hope to see you next time.
Congratulations to Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters’ members – President, Marion Smyth, Area 16 Governor, John Dineen, Conor Hayes and Colm Woods who featured on Radio 1′s Countrywide programme this morning. They were interviewed by Damien O’Reilly, who attended our recent visitors’ night, about their reasons for joining Toastmasters and the benefits they have gained.
A very successful visitors’ night last night (Monday 23rd January). Twelve visitors including Damien O’Reilly from Radio 1′s ‘Countrywide’. We hope to be featured on his programme in the coming weeks. Prizes were awarded as follows: best contribution – Mairead Murphy, best speech: Colm Woods, best evaluation: Margaret McDonald and best topic response: John Dineen.
NEXT MEETING, MAY 28th
Ever wondered what Toastmasters is all about? Have a wedding speech or work presentation looming? Why not be entertained and educated at Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters’ next meeting, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp on Monday 28th May. Enjoy four prepared speeches and innovative impromptu speaking, poetry and even jokes! Get your week off to a great start. Visitors are always welcome to attend free of charge, and will not be asked to speak unless they wish to do so.
CLARE IS TOASTMASTER OF YEAR
Congratulations to our VP Education, Clare O’Neill, who won the Toastmaster of the Year award at our AGM last night. Well done also to the Most Improved Toastmaster, Colm Woods. They are worthy recipients. Toastmaster, John Dineen, won the best contribution of the meeting prize. Welcome aboard to our 10th new member this year, Jason Donoghue. We had side splitting comedy from Conor, more comedy from his evaluator, John Murtagh and a dramatisation of ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ from Christina.
COMMITTEE FOR 2012/2013
Officers elected at our AGM last night were: President: Mairead Murphy, VP Education: Christina Hession, VPPR: Marian Brennan, VP Membership: Colm Woods, Secretary, Brian Price, Treasurer: Conor Hayes and Sergeant at Arms: Donal Keating. Good luck everyone.
GOOD LUCK AT WOW CONFERENCE
Best wishes to our Division C representatives at the WOW Conference in Wexford this weekend – our Area 16 winner, Eric Fitzpatrick from Glasnevin in the International Speech contest, and Philip O’Callaghan from Clontarf-Marino in the evaluation contest.
PHOENIX-TARA AGM
The election of officers for 2012-2013 takes place at our next meeting on Monday night. Following this, it will be business as usual with prepared speeches from members. Visitors are always welcome to attend, free of charge. If you want to give your interview skills a boost or need help with a work presentation, why not come along on Monday 14th May, to Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp.
NEW MEMBERS
Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters welcomes its newest members, Jonathan Tiernan and Richard McCormack. Brian Price was very impressive in his debut as Toastmaster. Laughter in abundance, during topics about tatoos, Man United, superstitions and favourite destinations. A side-splitting ice-breaker from Bosco, a project 2 from Padraic, an advanced leadership presentation about the Toastmaster promise from Mairead, and J.K. Rowling’s commencement address by Christina. Awards were presented as follows: best contribution, Bosco Farrell; best speech, Padraic Doherty; best evaluation, Donal Keating: and best topic response, Colm Woods. Next meeting, Monday 14th May, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, 8 pm sharp. Visitors welcome to attend free of charge. You will not be asked to speak, unless you wish to do so.
NEXT MEETING (Monday 23rd April)
Always wondered what Toastmasters is all about? Do you need help with a work presentation? Have a nerve-wracking wedding speech coming up? Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters is here to help. Visitors are very welcome to attend our next meeting on Monday 23rd April, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. Enjoy four prepared speeches by members, and innovative impromptu speaking. Visitors won’t be asked to speak, unless they wish to do so. An entertaining and educational night is assured.
HAPPY EASTER
Happy Easter to all our online & Toastmaster friends. If you want to conquer your public speaking fears, or brush up on your interview skills – why not come along to our next meeting on Monday 23rd April, in the beautiful surroundings of Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. Visitors can attend free of charge, and will not be asked to speak unless they wish to do so. Enjoy four speeches – an ice-breaker (first speech), a project 2, an advanced leadership presentation and a monodrama (monologue) from the advanced interpretive reading manual. Add innovative impromptu speaking to the mix, and you have a recipe for an entertaining and educational night out. Hope to see you there.
NEW MEMBERS
Phoenix-Tara welcomed its newest members last night – Eric Fagan, Catherine Connolly & Kate O’Driscoll. Congrats to Marion Brennan on winning the best topic response. Topics included: getting rid of the family dog, excuses for a weekend away, Liverpool FC, violent video games, losing your mobile phone, fantasy laws you’d like to enact, Eircom & Dublin v Mayo. Speeches: Mairead Murphy (Evaluate to Motivate, Successful Club Series), Eric Fitzpatrick with ‘Sunflowers’ and Christina Hession, Read a Story, Interpretive Reading manual. Next meeting, Monday 23rd April, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, 8 pm sharp.
APRIL MEETING
Do you want to improve your interview skills or re-ignite your career? Visitors are very welcome to attend our next meeting free of charge, on Monday 2nd April, in the luxurious Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. An entertaining and educational night is assured.
CONGRATS TO ERIC
Congratulations to Eric Fitzpatrick, Glasnevin, who won both the Area 16 International Speech & Evaluation Contests hosted by Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters, last night. He will now go on to represent Area 16, in the Division C final in Belfast on Saturday 21st April. Best wishes from everyone at Phoenix-Tara.
AREA 16 FINAL
Clubs: Navan, Clondalkin, Lucan, Castleknock, Glasnevin & Phoenix-Tara
The contestants in next Monday’s Area 16 international speech & evaluation contests are: Speech contest – Pat Foley , Pat Connell , Liam Power , Barry Lane , Eric Fitzpatrick & Christina Hession . Contestants in the evaluation contest: Donal Keating , Aoife Shinners , Eric Fitzpatrick , Justin Barry , Jacinta Tighe & Helen O’Keeffe . The contest is hosted by Phoenix-Tara, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp. It promises to a fabulous night of entertainment. Good luck to all contestants. Visitors are very welcome to attend.
PHOENIX-TARA HOSTS AREA 16 CONTEST FINALS
Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters host the Area 16 International Speech & Evaluation contests, in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, on Monday 26th March at 8 pm sharp.Contestants from Dunboyne, Navan, Castleknock, Clondalkin, Lucan & Glasnevin will bid to represent Area 16 in the Division C final in Belfast in April. A fabulous night’s entertainment is assured.
CONTEST RESULTS
The results of our evaluation & international speech contests last night are as follows. Evaluation contest – 1st, Donal Keating; 2nd, Christina Hession & 3rd, Michael May. Speech contest: 1st, Christina Hession and 2nd, Mairead Murphy. Our winners go forward to the Area 16 final hosted by Phoenix-Tara in Dunboyne on Monday 26th March, at 8 pm sharp.
INTERNATIONAL SPEECH & EVALUATION CONTESTS
Monday 12th March is Phoenix-Tara’s international speech & evaluation club contest night. The winners will represent the club in the Area 16 final, hosted by Phoenix-Tara on Monday 26th March. Though it differs from our normal meeting schedule, guests are still very welcome to attend free of charge. The contests take place in Dunboyne Castle Hotel, at 8 pm sharp.
TEST SPEAKERS
Two Phoenix-Tara members were test speakers for evaluation contests in Area 16 this week.
Mairead Murphy achieved her ACB, with a test speech titled ‘A Lost Future’ in Clondalkin on Tuesday night. Area Governor and Phoenix-Tara member, John Dineen, was the chief judge. Congrats to Pat Connell and Justin Barry who won the international speech and evaluation contests respectively.
John McCormack delivered an excellent speech, ‘Happy Days’ in Castleknock last night. Congrats to Barry Lane & Aoife Shinners, who won the international speech and evaluation contests there.
NEW MEMBERS
Four new members signed up last night. Welcome aboard to Marion, Mary, Bosco and Kate. We had 10 visitors. Awards: best contribution – Mairead Murphy, best topic response – Jim Kavanagh, best speech – Padraig Doherty, best use of word ‘paparazzi’ – Colm Woods and best evaluator – Christina Hession.
TEN TOP TIPS
In response to the potential wedding speakers, we met at Dunboyne Castle Hotel’s wedding fair last week, we have compiled a Top Ten Tips For Wedding Speeches.
Located under our ‘Tips’ section, the article will give you a taster of what we learn at Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters. To learn more about speechcraft or wedding toasts, why not come along tomorrow night (Monday 27th February) to Dunboyne Castle Hotel at 8 pm sharp. Visitors are always welcome free of charge, and will not be asked to speak unless they wish to do so.
NEXT MEETING
Ever wondered what Toastmasters is all about? Come to our next meeting on Monday 27th February and find out. You’ll hear four prepared speeches, ingenius impromptu speaking, jokes and poetry. The most fun you can have on a Monday night, in Meath’s plushest hotel, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, meeting at 7.45 for an 8 pm sharp start. Hope to see you there.
DUNBOYNE CASTLE HOTEL WEDDING FAIR
It was lovely to meet all the potential wedding speakers, at Dunboyne Castle Hotel’s wedding fair today.
If you couldn’t make it, come along to our next meeting on Monday 27th February at the same venue at 8 pm sharp. We’ll show you how to wow them at the wedding.
WEDDING FAIR
Worried about an upcoming wedding speech? Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters will be attending this Sunday’s wedding fair, at Dunboyne Castle Hotel, from 1 – 5 pm. Looking forward to meeting you there.
AWARDS APLENTY AT PHOENIX-TARA
Congrats to John McCormack on achieving his CC award, and winning best speech last night. Great Valentines’ topic session by Margaret McDonald, who won best contribution. Other speeches by Karl Neylon (project 7), Mairead Murphy (Storytelling 3) & Michael May (Speaking to Inform 1). Best topic response: Mary Gallagher (visitor) and best evaluation: Christina Hession. Other educational awards presented to Michael May & Donal Keating (ALB) and Christina Hession (ACB). Welcome to our 11 visitors. Hope to see you next time.
RADIO STARS
Congratulations to Phoenix-Tara Toastmasters’ members – President, Marion Smyth, Area 16 Governor, John Dineen, Conor Hayes and Colm Woods who featured on Radio 1′s Countrywide programme this morning. They were interviewed by Damien O’Reilly, who attended our recent visitors’ night, about their reasons for joining Toastmasters and the benefits they have gained.
‘COUNTRYWIDE’ VISITS PHOENIX-TARA
A very successful visitors’ night last night (Monday 23rd January). Twelve visitors including Damien O’Reilly from Radio 1′s ‘Countrywide’. We hope to be featured on his programme in the coming weeks. Prizes were awarded as follows: best contribution – Mairead Murphy, best speech: Colm Woods, best evaluation: Margaret McDonald and best topic response: John Dineen.