A LIMERICK school debating team has reached the final of the all-island Concern Debates competition.
Students from Laurel Hill Secondary School defeated Tipperary’s Ursuline Secondary School during the semi-final of this years contest.
Students Ellie McCaffrey, Zoe Norris-Cable, Aida Hehir, and Prisca Afolabi proposed the motion about the effectiveness of the United Nations.
They face Dublin’s Sandford Park School at The Helix venue at DCU in Dublin for the final debate on May 1, where they will debate the motion ‘The world is more equal now than it was 40 years ago’ to mark 40 years of the Concern Debates.
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