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After weeks of preparation and hard work we couldnt be prouder of our fantastic debating team and their teacher Ms Shanahan as they head to Dublin today to take on CBS Mullingar in the All -Ireland Semi- Final of the Concern Debating Competition. Hazelwood will be opposing the motion ” The current world aid system is ineffective- its time to shift the power”. Whatever happens this evening at the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin- this team have everything to be proud of for many years to come finding themselves in the top 4 of Irish Secondary schools. The future is incredibly bright for these young people. Best of luck to all the team- as we wait with baited breath to hear how they get on

Amazing news!!!!!!!!

THEY WON!!!!!!

Top four in the country and an All Ireland semi final awaits . .

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Wishing our Concern Debates Team the very best of luck for their All Ireland quarter final debate on Wednesday evening in Limerick against Laurel Hill.

Update Amazing news!!!!!!!!

THEY WON!!!!!!

Top four in the country and an All Ireland semi final awaits . .

Incredible news! Top 8 in the country in a competition that started with 180 schools and through to quarter final stages of the Concern Debates competition. Another fantastic win over a strong challenge from Cross and Passion College Antrim proposing ‘In the age of social media activism young people often engage in virtue signaling over genuine commitment to social change’. Congratulations to this fantastic group of young people

Amazing news. Top 16 in the country!! Our fabulous TY debating team defeated Waterpark College, Waterford opposing a very challenging motion “Voluntourism does more harm than good”. On now to Knockout Round 3 in two weeks time.

Amazing news!

3 out of 3 unanimous wins with another 5-0 win successfully proposing Big Business is indifferent to the SDGs over Loreto Clonmel by our fantastic TY Debating team in the League Phase leaving them up at the top of the table of 180 schools. Looking forward to the knockout stages in January.

Team: Names Aisling O’Connor, Amy O’Gorman, Regina Burke and Lucy O’Gorman

Timekeeper Ciarain Ahern, Chairperson Aidan Lake and Christopher Cullen, Kyle Horan and Donnacha Stritch.

Congratulations to our TY debaters who successfully opposed the motion ‘Africa should be allowed develop fossil fuels to lift their people from poverty’. A unanimous 5 -0 win for Hazelwood College against Gaelchólaiste Mhuire AG Cork. We are so proud of their dedication and hard work. Keep it up!

Another unanimous 5-0 victory for our fabulous hard working TY debating team who defeated a strong Naas CBS side creatively opposing the motion ‘HIV and AIDS in the global south is the forgotten pandemic’.

Well done to this TY debating team who won their debate tonight against Scoil Pól Kilfinanne. All their hard work paid off. Hazelwood was represented by Hannah O’Sullivan, Muireann O’Callaghan, Aine Tierney + Sinead Reidy