Literary and Debating Society NUIG

Twitter account of the Literary and Debating Society, NUI Galway | Founded 1846 | Debates every Thursday during term in the Kirwan Theatre

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"I've never learned anything in the Kirwan. I've never even learned how to shoot a gun" ~ Pearce Clancy

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"I better not follow in the footsteps of.........Spud" ~ Chris Collins

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"Steve Jobs always talks about needing to fail before you succeed and that's what I needed to do" ~ Neil Brennan

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"I didn't want to disappoint my Mam" ~ Paschal Lehany

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"You don't want me out there in the real world. I can't handle that yet" ~ Cecelia Foster

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"I have 8 assignments due at the moment and I would rather burn alive than do it" ~ Mars Duignan

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"I've personally just finished working a minimum wage job and I hope it'll be my last" ~ Anna Carroll

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"I've learned so much about different types of blackouts from college" ~ Daire Twisp

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"Let's be real, the reason that you're here is to daydrink" ~ Kevin Clarke

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"I've heard nothing from the opposition about why we actually should stay in college apart from discounts on pints" ~ Josh Muller

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"If I come out at the end of May without Salmonella poisoning from student accommodation, it'll be a miracle" ~ Lauren Delimata

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"College creates a false competition for jobs that don't need a degree" ~ Oisín Keogh

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"The outside world is scary. In college you have a community."
-Chris Collins

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The motion this evening is This House Would Drop Out Of College in the Kirwan Theatre.

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"College doesn't matter if you work in the field you want to work in."
-Pearce Clancy

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"People do not understand mental health as it's portrayed as much more simple than it is."
-Laura Murray

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"Trivialisation comes with normalisation"
-Mark Graydon

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"We don't want to live in a society where mental illness is prevolent"
-Senan Crawford

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"By trivialising mental health we force people to acknowledge it"
-Margarett Muldoon

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Any discussion of mental health is progress
-Thomas Creamer