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Debate: overpopulation and aid

Posted by Michael Doorly | in Get Active! | 11 May 2011 | 4 comments
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The final of the Concern Debates takes place today. Sandford Park School and Largy College will be debating the motion: “Developing countries must reverse their population growth as a condition for receiving overseas aid.” 

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Halfway there

Posted by Evanna Craig | in Get Active! | 20 December 2010 | 0 comments
Eoin O hUallaigh speaking for Colaiste Chillian at the quarter final in April 20

We are more than halfway through the league phase of the debates for this year. Have you been debating? What is your favourite or least favourite issue so far?

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Debating is back!

Posted by Evanna Craig | in Get Active! | 2 November 2010 | 1 comment
Debating is back!

The Concern Debates 2010-11 season has kicked off, with schools around the country debating the motion that “Genetically modified organisms are essential in combating world hunger.”

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Tomorrow’s children

Posted by Grainne O Brien | in Get Active! | 6 April 2010 | 1 comment
Student from St Brendan's Birr speaking at 2009 Quarter-Final

Will tomorrow’s children inherit a better world? This is the topic that the quarter finalists of the Concern Debates will be tackling in their next debate.

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Debate it: knockout phase 2008 - 2009

Debate it: knockout phase 2008 - 2009

The National Final was between Sandford Park School and Gort Community School.

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25 years of debating

Posted by Alan O'Reilly | in Get Active! | 1 September 2009 | 1 comment
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The new season of the Concern Debates is about to begin. Have you registered yet?

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Debates: league phase

Castlepollard Community School debates team January 2011. Photo: Concern

Whether you’re new to the debates or are an old hand, the information on this page is very important!

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Something completely different

Posted by Alan O'Reilly | in Get Active! | 21 August 2009 | 0 comments
James Esses at the Debates Final in May 2009

James Esses was one of the debates-winning students that travelled to Kenya with Concern. During the trip, James and the other Irish students witnessed the devastating poverty in Nairobi’s slums.

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Looking back at the final

Posted by Michael Doorly | in Get Active! | 22 May 2009 | 0 comments
Looking back at the final

First of all, let me once again congratulate both Gort and Sandford Park for a brilliant Concern Debates National Final.

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