On March 22nd Griffith College held their annual Schools Debating Competition and saw 20 Schools from all over Ireland compete. Finalists on the day were CBS Kilkenny & Saint Brigid’s Killarney who debated on the motion “This House believes that the age of majority should increase from 18 years of age to 21 years of age.”CBS Kilkenny were crowned this year’s winners with Saint Brigid’s Killarney Runner Up. Leading up to the competition, students were asked to prepare and submit a 1,000-word essay on the above motion to present on day. Griffith Law Faculty had the difficult decision of reading and reviewing all essay submissions and narrowing it down to 20 schools to present on the day.
John Eardly, Programme Director, LL. B(Hons) shares his thoughts on the day. “It was wonderful meeting a range of schools across Ireland today. It was a real honour being a judge and seeing the high quality of debate that we got to experience”.
Karen Sutton, Head of Law Faculty at Griffith College said “It was a wonderful day enjoyed by all and provided students the opportunity to improve their communications skills, which we aim to achieve as lawyers”.
