{"id":27810,"date":"2018-07-20T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=27810"},"modified":"2018-07-20T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:25:12","slug":"northside-today-volunteer-judges-needed-for-concern-secondary-school-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=27810","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Judges needed for Concern Secondary School Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olga Brodescu, Concern Worldwide School&#8217;s Administration Officer, talks to Noel McGuinness about the search for volunteers to judge Concern&#8217;s nationwide debating competition for secondary school students. Among the serious global issues that the teenagers will discuss is the motion &#8220;Ireland&#8217;s summer heatwave is more cause for worry than joy&#8221;. Olga says that the judges should be good listeners who are able to see both sides of an argument and who can keep an open mind &#8211; while also having an interest in development and human rights issues.\u00a0 Anyone who wants to volunteer and join the panel of judges for Concern Debates is asked to contact Concern&#8217;s School and Youth Programme Administrator, Geraldine Carroll at 01 417 7733 or by email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:debates@concern.net\">debates@concern.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2838\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2838','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=27810-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 8:51 &#8212; 12.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olga Brodescu, Concern Worldwide School&#8217;s Administration Officer, talks to Noel McGuinness about the search for volunteers to judge Concern&#8217;s nationwide debating competition for secondary school students. Among the serious global issues that the teenagers will discuss is the motion &#8220;Ireland&#8217;s summer heatwave is more cause for worry than joy&#8221;. Olga says that the judges should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2839\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2839','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=27810-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Nst-20-7-2018-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 8:51 &#8212; 12.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[11137,11139,11138,2205,11135,11136],"class_list":["post-27810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-concern-secondary-school-debates","tag-geraldine-carroll","tag-global-issues","tag-noel-mcguinness","tag-olga-brodescu","tag-volunteer-judges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27813,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions\/27813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}