Youth Leadership Competition 2017 Report

President Ivan was delighted to welcome Monday 12 June Club nominee Hannah Beattie (Victoria College) who was selected as one of the 28 Rotary Ireland students to go to Strasbourg to discuss real issues and policies in the European Parliament. She thanked the Club for the tremendous opportunity to learn policies and present in front of peers noting that she had been delighted to be chosen and that it had been a lifetime experience. Her impressive and fluent report of the very successful Irish group was very well received.

She revealed that not only all 6 spokespeople chosen were Irish but that all the questions raised were from the Irish students! Ireland, she claimed, was taking over Europe; so much so that the Parliament Chairman of the day asked if there was a non Irish question. A question was then asked in German but an Irish accent gave the questioner away! She concluded advising that unusually all 6 motions were passed. Pointing out that a group of strangers had become a very close-knit unit in a few days she thanked the Club for the tremendous opportunity to learn policies and present in front of peers. Her full report can be seen here...