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St Mary's Newport TY Concern Debate Team hold their own against St Coleman's College

Congratulations to our TY Concern Debate Team on their win over St Coleman’s College. Our team opposed the motion Climate activists must give up eating meat. The motion was defeated. Well done to our students and their mentors, Ms Flannery and Ms ...

27 Dec 2022 at 18:33

Ireland

Fiery exchanges in the first televised leaders debate of Irish general election

Ireland’s political leaders have clashed on housing, public spending and the government’s response to war-ravaged Gaza in the first TV leaders’ debate of the election. The RTE leaders’ debate, which was scheduled for two hours long but ran ...

19 Nov 2024 at 01:51

World

Harris-Trump debate becomes 2024 presidential election’s latest landmark event

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet for the first time face-to-face for perhaps their only debate in the US presidential election, a high-pressure opportunity to showcase their starkly different visions for the country after a ...

10 Sept 2024 at 22:48

Ireland

Taoiseach and Tanaiste say they would shun coalition with Sinn Fein

Ireland’s premier and deputy premier again made clear their opposition to entering any coalition government with Sinn Fein in the first major TV debate of the Irish General Election campaign. Standing together in the RTE studio, ...

18 Nov 2024 at 22:23

A history of the TV debate in the UK as Sunak and Starmer prepare to face off

As Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer agree to go head to head in the first televised leaders’ debate of the 2024 General Election campaign, here is a history of the TV debate in British electoral history. While the US had their ...

29 May 2024 at 17:06

Sunak and Starmer talk over each other during heated ITV leaders’ debate

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have been reprimanded for talking over each other during a fiery ITV leaders’ debate. Host Julie Etchingham had warned the pair to stick to a 45 second per question rule, but repeatedly had to ...

04 Jun 2024 at 22:42

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Macra na Feirme National Debating Finals will be in county Tipperary hotel this weekend

Macra na Feirme’s top orators will gather in the Horse & Jockey Hotel near Thurles this Saturday night, February 10, to compete in the rural youth organisation’s national debating finals. The South Tipperary branch of Macra ...

08 Feb 2024 at 18:33

Donald Trump rules out further debates against Kamala Harris

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Donald Trump rules out further debates with Kamala Harris

Donald Trump has ruled out another presidential debate against Kamala Harris as her campaign announced a massive fundraising haul in the hours after the two candidates met on stage. Mr Trump, the Republican nominee, posted ...

13 Sept 2024 at 09:10

UK must consider slavery reparations as it is ‘right thing to do’ – Labour MP

The UK should consider reparations for those who were enslaved because it is “the right thing to do”, a Labour former minister has argued, as MPs urged the Government to open up the conversation. Dawn Butler said she ...

24 Oct 2024 at 15:23

Budget ‘biggest-ever assault’ on competitiveness, says former chancellor Hunt

Jeremy Hunt has accused Labour of “the biggest-ever assault on our economic competitiveness”. Opening a Commons Budget debate on Thursday, the Conservative shadow chancellor confessed he liked “neither” the 2022 ...

31 Oct 2024 at 16:03

MPs’ decisions on assisted dying should be made on ‘secular basis’ – minister

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people have ...

28 Nov 2024 at 09:01

Tory MP says he failed patients because he could not give them a ‘good death’

A Conservative MP has told the Commons he felt he had “failed” his patients, because he could not give them a “good death”. “I failed because I did not give them the good death that they deserve despite ...

29 Nov 2024 at 15:40

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