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UL students win French-language intervarsity debating competition

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Congratulations to Déarbhla Hennessy (a third-year student on the BA in Applied Languages) and Mario Sánchez-Cortés Macías (a UL Erasmus student from the University of Granada) who were the overall winners of the 2019 Joutes Oratoires Interuniversitaires.This event is a French-language intervarsity debating competition organised by the Service Culturel of the French Embassy in Ireland as part of the annual Mois de la Francophonie, which was held in UCD on 8 and 9 March. This is the first time for a UL team to win the overall title.Bravo et félicitations!

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