“Congratulations on your success Donna Marie Woods and Joan Heduan . You have made us all proud. Next meeting 12th of April 8.30pm Greville Arms Hotel

Mullingar Toastmasters Have you ever wondered how great speakers do it? Make you fall in love with them (even though they’re not your usual type😳 Great speakers use tone of voice, emotional connection, carefully chosen words and of course, open body language to create that connection that draws the audience and creates the trust and likability that is key to engaging your audience! These are just some of the aspects of public speaking you’ll experience in MullingarToastmasters! If you’d like to know more about how we build confidence, improve communication and develop leadership skills join us at our next meeting on Thursday April 12 Greville Arms Hotel 8.30pm.

We love entertaining people and this is entertainment. The entertainment is in the presentation.Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.Next meeting April 12 Greville Arms Hotel 8,30pm

We love entertaining people and this is entertainment. Congratulations Donna Maria Woods and Joan Heduan in winning the International Speech and Evaluation Contest at Club level. The entertainment is in the presentation.Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Mullingar Toastmasters, A pathway to improving your communication skills. The new Pathways education program was the main topic on the agenda at Mullingar Toastmaster meeting on Thursday March 8th. Toastmasters is an international organisation and the mission of a Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every individual member has the opportunity to develop oral communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth. Toastmasters have recently introduced a new training program called Pathways. This new and exciting program promises to equip our members with the necessary skills needed to succeed in today’s ever changing environment! Mullingar Toastmasters would like to sincerely thank Kevin Doyle from Greystones Toastmasters club and Patricia O’Reilly for delivering such a superb introduction to this new education program! Daniel Lynam then delivered a speech regarding a lucky escape in a potentially extremely serious farm incident. His speech highlighted the necessity to be on high alert at all times around farm machinery, a very important message given the number of fatalities on farm throughout the country. This speech was followed by a speech delivered by our own Donald Trump, aka Rory Noone. He had some intriguing ideas including the erection of a wall around Athlone. I am still trying to work out if the wall was meant to keep the Athlonites in, or the Mullingarites out! Thanks to all who performed roles on the evening. Toastmaster’s next meeting is on in the Greville Arms Hotel Mullingar on Thursday March 22nd, at 8.30pm. It is the night of our international speech and evaluation contest so it promises to be exciting one! Guests are welcome as always! For further information see our website: www.mullingartoastmasters.org and our Facebook page. I’m going to leave you with a simple quote from a true genius -“It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love”- Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018, RIP.

Save the date! Mullingar Toastmasters Club will be having its International Speech Contest and Evaluation Club Contest 2018. Speech contests are a fundamental part of the Toastmasters educational programme. They provide a fantastic opportunity for Toastmasters to gain public speaking experience, as well as an opportunity to learn from proficient speakers. Please come along and support our amazing contestants who will be competing to progress towards area level contests.

Save the date! Mullingar Toastmasters Club will be having its International Speech Contest and Evaluation Club Contest 2018. Speech contests are a fundamental part of the Toastmasters educational programme. They provide a fantastic opportunity for Toastmasters to gain public speaking experience, as well as an opportunity to learn from proficient speakers. Please come along and support our amazing contestants who will be competing to progress towards area level contests. Please support your local club by sharing or copy & paste) this onto your fb pages. Much appreciated.

We passed 400 likes on our facebook page this morning and couldn’t be more grateful to our loyal and new followers on social media! As you may already know, we are not concerned so much with numbers and stats but more interested in sharing our message and our services to the local community and learning more from our friends! Have we told you lately that we appreciate you? With love, because we are ultra grateful that you’re here with us.

Toastmasters Pathways. If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. The Road less traveled BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Pathways is rolling out in our district this month. Our ambassador Kevin Doyle and guide Patrica O Reilly presented it to our club this week. Next meeting 22 of March Greville Arms Hotel 8.30.pm

What the Westmeath Examiner is saying about Mullingar Toastmasters. Basking in the afterglow of Mullingar Toastmasters I’m still basking in the afterglow of Mullingar Toastmasters meeting ry 22nd. It was most definitely a memorable evening, between an Oscar worthy performance by our Toastmaster Mr Lorcan Sleator, 4 wonderful speeches by Marie Costelloe, Mary Fallon, Mags Healy Donoghue and Anke Von Bunau, and a superbly unique Table Topics session delivered by our Topics master Nancy Ormond! Then came the grammarians report…the self-confessed “not normal” grammarian ranted and raved over the 93 grammatical distortions committed by our members during the evening’s proceedings! He held up a photo of Tessa & Scott (two champion figures skaters in the winter Olympics) and frantically exclaimed that they didn’t win by making 93 errors!! He said we need to aspire to reach their supernatural level of perfection! Point taken Mr Grammarian! (Maybe we should just give up public speaking and start ice-skating….it’s as good a week as any to start!) Patsy Fagan repaired the damage bringing back the afterglow with his charismatic, colourful, and comedic general evaluation! Thanks to all who performed roles on the evening. Congratulations to Anke Von Bunau on achieving her Advanced Leader Bronze award, and to Marie Costelloe on her wonderful ice-breaker speech; and belated birthday wishes to our President Mr Pat Kenny! Toastmaster’s next meeting is on in the Greville Arms Hotel Mullingar on Thursday March 8th, at 8.30pm. Guests are welcome as always! For further information see our website: www.mullingartoastmasters.org and our Facebook page. .