page_title: C.B.C. Monkstown
section_title: Debating
hierarchical_section_title: C.B.C. Monkstown / Extracurricular / Debating
caption_attribution_description: A Senior Cup team match at Monkstown Park vs St Michaels College Taken September 2014
context_page_description: Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park is a private fee-paying Catholic school and Independent Junior school, founded in 1856 in Monkstown, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland. The college arrived at Monkstown Park in 1950 from Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire via a short stint on Tivoli Road. As of September 2018, it will be in its 69th academic year of existence at Monkstown Park, the 162nd overall.
  The intended mission of the college's former patron, the Congregation of the Christian Brothers established in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice, was the education of poor boys in Ireland by providing them with basic levels of literacy. This was the broad aim of the school when it opened its doors in 1856 at Eblana Avenue in what was then known as Kingstown, a port town south of Dublin City.
  As the years went by, the aims of the Christian Brothers got broader and so did those of the Dún Laoghaire school. By the 1920s, the school was preparing boys for the state examinations and sending increasing number of students to third level. The growth in population in Dún Laoghaire, with an increasing Catholic middle class demographic, led to an increase in the demand for the school.
context_section_description: In 2011, CBC became the first school in the history of Leinster Schools' Debating Championships to win both the Individual and Team prizes, thus the school were Leinster's sole representatives at the All Ireland Schools' Debating Championship (Individual: Austin Conlon, Team: Kevin Dooney and Michael Barton). Conlon went on to win the Individual prize at the All Ireland Schools' Debating Championship at University College Cork whilst the Team of Dooney and Barton finished as runners up. Another team from CBC, Stephen Stack and Hugh Guidera, also represented Ireland at the Schools debating competition organised by the Oxford Union at Oxford University.
  Rory Conlon and Luke Murray retained the Leinster School's Debating team title in 2012 for the school. Hugh Guidera and Michael Barton reached the Grand Final of the Clifford Chance Durham University Schools' Debating Competition, one of the four "Majors" on the UK Schools Debating circuit and is the largest schools debating competition in the world. This made them the only Irish school to reach one of the UK Majors for this debating season. In addition, Stephen Stack and Michael Barton triumphed at the Trinity College, Dublin Schools’ Debating Competition.
  Debating Honours
  2011 Leinster Schools Senior Debating Championships (Team)- Kevin Dooney and Michael Barton
  2011 Leinster Schools Senior Debating Championships (Individual)- Austin Conlon
  2011 Irish Schools Senior Debating Championships (Individual)- Austin Conlon
  2012 Trinity College Schools Debating Mace (Team) - Stephen Stack and Michael Barton
  2012 Leinster Schools Senior Debating Championships (Team)- Rory Conlon and Luke Murray
  2012 Clifford Chance Durham Schools Debating Championships Grand Finalists- Hugh Guidera and Michael Barton
  2013 Leinster Schools Junior Debating Championships (Team)- Cillian Madden and Patrick Rogers
  2014 Leinster Schools Junior Debating Championships (Individual) - Harry Spellman
  2014 Leinster Schools Senior Debating Championships (Team) - Carl Whelan and Myles Kelly
  2016 University Philosophical Society "Phil Speaks" winners - Cillian Madden and Adam Tuck
  2017 Leinster Schools Junior Debating Championships (Team)- Parsa Nazemi and Jack Palmer
  2019 Leinster Schools Junior Mace Championships (Individual) - James O'Donoghue
  2019 Irish Schools Junior Mace Championships (Individual) - Conor Coveney
  2019 Irish Schools Senior Mace Championships (Team) - Jack Palmer and Luke Holmes
  2019 Leinster Schools Senior Debating Championships (Team) - Luke Holmes and Jack Palmer
caption: A rugby match at Monkstown Park, September 2014
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