Visiting speaker tells Toastmasters how to live forever

AN entertaining and informative night was had by all at last week’s Toastmaster’s meeting.

President Marie Fitzpatrick welcomed all members and guests to the meeting while Toastmaster for the night was Anne Buckley.

The first speech was from John Sherlock, a visiting speaker from the Fermoy Toastmasters Club, with a speech entitled ‘I Want To Live Forever’. John emphasised that we can live forever in people’s memories. He gave a list of ideas of how you can make an effort of passing on information of your life to those coming after you. Older generations never wrote about their lives or related how they had lived their lives and so he pointed out that by writing a basic autobiography that can be passed on to the next generation to give them an idea of what your life experiences were and let them see what major changes have happened since you were growing up.

Don McSweeney evaluated John’s Speech.

Next up was Ray Ryan with a speech entitled ‘Only Connect’. This quiz programme goes out on BBC 2 every Monday night from 8.30p.m. to 9 p.m. It is a quiz show that the viewer can get fully involved in and it increases your mental power and speed of thought. Pat Sexton evaluated the speech.

Marie Lynes gave an informative speech about Islam. This is the second largest religion in the world with over 1.5 billion followers. John Brennan evaluated Maire’s speech and thanked her for all the information on this religion which is in the media on a daily basis.

Next to the lectern was Michael Cronin with a speech entitled ‘Be Not Afraid’. Michael was encouraging all present to have a plan to do a certain amount of speeches every year, find something that interests you and be always on the look out for ideas for a speech. Liam Flynn evaluated Michael’s speech.

Mary Moynihan was Topicsmaster for the evening with topics ranging from ‘ Tattoos’ to ‘It is not the years in your life but the life in your years’.

The next Toastmasters meeting is on Thursday, October 6 at 8pm in the Hibernian Hotel and all are welcome. This is the Humorous Speech and Tabletopics Contest Night so lots of laughter is guaranteed.

Guests are never asked to speak, so please do come along. Further information on Speakeasy Toastmasters can be had by visiting their website at www.speakeaseytoastmasters.com or contacting Marie Fitzpatrick, President (086)8548389 or Helsa Giles, E.V.P. (086)0762015.