Honours in Public Speaking

2025 / 2026
ESU

  • ESU Winner (1st round) Churchill Public Speaking Competition
2024 / 2025
ESU

  • Public Speaking Competition Finalist
  • Ellis McLoughlin 1st Place Catholic Schools Public Speaking Contest
  • Ava Ramsdale 2nd Place Catholic Schools Public Speaking Contest
2023 / 2024
ESU

  • Summer O’Loughlin and Matthew McGorian 2nd and 3rd place Catholic schools Public Speaking Contest
  • ESU Regional finalist
  • Neve Kirby Collins Winner Catenian Public Speaking Contest
  • Tom Harrison runner up Catholic School Public Speaking Contest
2022 / 2023
ESU

  • Mia Owens 2nd place Catholic School Public Speaking Contest
  • Best Speaker: Daisy Shannon & Neve Kirby-Collins
  • Best Chair: Evelyn Cooney
  • Best Questioner: Joseph Miller
2021 / 2022

ESU

  • Best Speaker: Mollieanne Joyce
  • Best Chair: Finn Garity
  • Best Questioner: Joseph Miller
2019 / 2020

ESU Liverpool Branch Final. Liverpool Hope University – January 2020

  • Best Speaker: Ciara Miller
  • Best Chair: Matthew Brough
  • Best Questioner: Jake Cliff

ESU Liverpool Heat – November 2019

  • Winning Team
  • Best Speaker: Ciara Miller.
  • Best Chair. Matthew Brough
  • Best Questioner. Jake Cliff
2018 / 2019

ESU North West Final – Cheshire – March, 2019

  • Matthew Brough, Ciara Miller, Jake Cliff
  • Finalist – Archbishop Beck Catholic College

ESU Liverpool Branch Final – Anglican Cathedral – January 2019

  • Matthew Brough, Ciara Miller, Jake Cliff, Joseph Roberts
  • Runners up –  Archbishop Beck Catholic College
  • Best Chairperson – Matthew Brough

ESU – College Awarded Commendation in the ESU

  • Oracy Culture award

ESU College Awarded Commendation in the ESU Cultural Debating Award

ESU Liverpool Heat – November 2018

  • Matthew Brough, Ciara Miller, Jake Cliff, Joseph Roberts, Eugene O’Donnell
  • Archbishop Beck Catholic College – First place
2017 / 2018

Archdiocese of Liverpool Public Speaking Competition – July 2018

  • Matthew Brough – First place

Catenian Public Speaking Competition – March 2018

  • Emma Bailey – Second place

ESU Liverpool Branch Final – January 2018

  • Matthew Brough, Katy Taylor, Amy McInerney
  • Best questionnaire – Amy McInerney
2016 / 2017

ESU Liverpool Branch Final – February 2017

  • Archbishop Beck Catholic College – Runners up
  • Lewis Longman, jack Roberts, Amy McInerney
  • Personality of the Event – Amy McInerney
2015 / 2016

Archdiocese of Liverpool Public Speaking Competition – July 2016

  • Jessica Haycock – First place
2014 / 2015

Catenians Public Speaking National Final

  • Lisa Shoko – First place

English Speaking Union Churchill Public Speaking Competition

Liverpool Branch Heat Runners Up

  • Amy Walsh (chairperson), John Joe Walsh (speaker), James Murray (Questioner)

Liverpool Branch Final – Runners Up

  • Praise Johnson (chairperson), John Joe Walsh (speaker), James Murray (Questioner)
  • Personality of the Event – Praise Johnson

Events

  • Public Speaking Society visit to Parliament House

Soroptomist International, Liverpool Branch, Public Speaking Competition (March 2015)

  • Katy Taylor – First place
  • Maisie Gotham – Runner Up

Catenians Public Speaking Regional Final 

  • Ellis Howard – First place
2013 / 2014

English Speaking Union Churchill Public Speaking Competition

Liverpool Branch Final Runners Up 

  • Abigail Simons (chairperson), Leaoni Williams (Speaker), Lewis McCormick (Questioner)
  • Best Questioner – Lewis McCormick
  • Personality of the event – Leaoni Williams

Events

  • Best Questioner, Lewis McCormick, invited to the House of Lords to meet Princess Anne

Catenians Public Speaking Regional Final

  • Lisa Shoko – First place
2012 / 2013

English Speaking Union Churchill Public Speaking Competition

Liverpool Branch Final Winners  

  • Ellis Howard (chairperson), Michael McInulty (speaker) Lewis McCormick (questioner)
    Best Chairperson – Ellis Howard

Regional Final Winners

  • Ellis Howard (chairperson), Michael McInulty (speaker) Lewis McCormick (questioner)
    Personality of the Event and Best Chairperson – Ellis Howard

National Final – Goodenough College, London

  • Runners Up: Ellis Howard (chairperson), Michael McInulty (speaker) Lewis McCormick (questioner)
  • Best Questioner – Lewis McCormick

Soroptomist International, Liverpool Branch, Public Speaking Competition

  • Lewis McCormick – First place