Alumni Challenge Debate in Paris – Trinity vs Cambridge
"This House believes that the best is yet to come"
The Trinity College Dublin Society of Paris is challenging the Cambridge University Alumni Society of Paris to a debate this autumn, which will be hosted at the Irish Embassy at the kind invitation of HE Ambassador of Ireland to France and Trinity alumna Patricia O’Brien.
Date & Time: Thursday 10 October 2019, 7.00pm–8.45pm
Venue: Embassy of Ireland, 12 avenue Foch (entrance 4 rue Rude), 75116 Paris
The debate will be launched at 7.00pm, followed by drinks to conclude at 8:45 pm. The Trinity speakers will be Edward Donelan and Declan Mc Cavana, joined by special guest David Doyle. They will open the floor and contest the motion "The best is yet to come". Learn more about our speakers below – TCD’s honour is in their hands!
Cambridge has put forward an impressive team, with Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs and Edward Archer at the reins, assisted by special guest Alan Riding. Learn more about the Cambridge speakers below.
Tickets for this event are now on sale via https://www.helloasso.com/associations/trinity-college-dublin-alumni-society-of-paris/evenements/challenge-debate-against-cambridge-university (please scroll down for further details).
Tickets must be booked by Sunday 6th October. As the debate takes place in the Irish Embassy, members and guests must bring photographic ID in order to be admitted to the event.
Tickets for Trinity vs Cambridge Challenge Debate in Paris
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Tickets for this event can be purchased via this site: https://www.helloasso.com/associations/trinity-college-dublin-alumni-society-of-paris/evenements/challenge-debate-against-cambridge-university
Tickets are €20 per person for TCD alumni and their guests.
There is a discounted price of €10 per person for alumni or guests under 30 years of age.
Early booking is recommended as we anticipate that demand may exceed the number of places available.
The final date for booking your place is Sunday 6 October (unless all tickets are sold before this date), as the final list of participants has to be provided to the Embassy’s security staff on Monday 7 October.
By the power of Tito
Additional Information
Speakers for Trinity College Dublin
Declan Mc Cavana (TCD, 1986) is President of the French Debating Association and Sr Lecturer at the Dept of Languages & Cultures of l’X Polytechnique.
Dr. Edward Donelan (TCD, 1973) is a Barrister and worked for the OECD before becoming an independent consultant in Regulatory Management.
H.E. David Doyle (TCD 1975) is Ambassador to UNESCO of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Speakers for Cambridge University
Andrew Lydon-Skeggs is the current President of the Cambridge Alumni Society of Paris.
Edward Archer is a past President of the Cambridge Alumni Society of Paris.
Alan Riding is a graduate of Bristol University and for 30 years was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Alan spent a colourful two decades reporting on Latin America and was later the newspaper’s Paris bureau chief and European cultural correspondent. He is author of books on Mexico, Shakespeare and Opera and, most recently, of 'And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris'.