Club History

Swords Toastmasters held its first meeting in September 1994 in the upstairs function room of the old Harp Inn, North Street, Swords. The club has been run continuously and successfully. Since 2004*, through all its Members successes, the Club has achieved the highest status ‘award of excellence’ possible in the Toastmaster International organisation, i.e. President Distinguished Club

In 2000, due to the redevelopment of the Harp Inn, our meeting venue moved to the Hawthorn Hotel, Main Street, Swords. This lasted until 2007 when we relocated back to our original venue, which is now called the Carnegie Hotel.

Our Past Presidents

1. Noel O’Beara 1994 – 1995

2. Donal Horan 1995 – 1996

3. Sean Shinnors 1996 – 1997

4. Anne Patterson 1997 – 1998

5. John Brangan 1998 – 1999

6. James Madden 1999 – 2000

7. Dermot Hamilton (Deceased) 2000 – 2001

8. Joe Bishop 2001 – 2002

9. James Madden (Deceased) 2002 – 2003

10. Dave Halpin 2003 – 2004

11. Joe Bishop 2004 – 2005

12. John Mulligan 2005 – 2006

13. Aidan McCann 2006 – 2007

14. Ann Gibson 2007 – 2008

15. Harry Laird 2008 – 2009

16. Hugh O’Malley 2009 – 2010

17. Seamus Hynes 2010 – 2011

18. Hugh Gallagher 2011 – 2012

19. Robbie Boardman 2013 – 2014

20. Fergus O’Donoghue 2014 – 2015

21. Alec MacAlisiter 2015 – 2016

22. Antoinette Kane 2016 -2017

23. Michael Madigan 2017 -2018

24. Patrick Cregg 2018 – 2019

25. Joanne Newman 2019 – 2020

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