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Christmas Vox a la francais. Who’d have guessed? But we’re a pretty ingenious crowd. Grammarian, Jean-Marie, encouraged us all to use French phrases when speaking. And, inventive ah-counter Maria, suggested we use “Ho, ho, ho”  instead of crutch words. Both

Wednesday’s meeting opened on a decidedly Festive note after the Christmas party on Saturday! Kicking off things with gusto, our lovely Topicsmaster, Merrilyn, announced the very innovative idea that deciding who would be given what topic would be done by

Fear. Everybody has it and nobody likes it. How can we overcome fear? Three speakers attempted to answer this on Wednesday. Martin hinted at the possibility that our fears are less substantial than we think. Are we still afraid of

At Vox Populi we do the serious business of delivering speeches very well. In fact we have it down to a fine art, but we also have a lot of fun while we’re doing it and with this in mind,

Our Halloween Club meeting at McGrattans on Wednesday last week was one of the scariest club meetings I have ever been to….. and that was even before Dan G as Topicsmaster, resplendent in his Sergeant’s uniform, announced that he would

Wednesday night’s Vox was full of love … and hate. It began with cats. (Well, that was bound to divide us). Maria hates them, Mark loves them. But he loves LOVE/HATE more. Why was there such a fuss about a

All work and no play would make VOX a dull club. Luckily, playing is a high priority for us and much of the vibrancy of VOX lies in its active social life. Not that we need an excuse to party,

Yet another fun-filled foray into the adventure that is public speaking at Vox last week. And what a lot of fun we had! Both ToastMaster, Fergal Rice, and TopicsMaster, yours truly, were disgracefully late (Rumours of quickies abounded that night but

What an evening we had to kick start the Vox Year! As we settled into our new home of McGrattans, we had the vivacious Nora Duggan at the helm who revved up the evening’s meeting with plenty of warmth peppered

Ah Ryan Tubridy.. what’s not to like? The lovely Ryan featured heavily in tonight’s topics session, masterminded by last-minute substitute Dan (thanks Dan!) in flying form. Colette certainly thought there was more good than bad to Tubs, and with no