Formation of The Debating Union
Financial and organisational pressures forced the merger of the Literary and Philosophical and the Parliamentary Debating Societies in the 1994-5 session. At this stage there were also significant overlaps in membership. While the two societies had elected committees and auditors at the end of the 1993-1994 academic year both worked over the summer to finalise details of the merger which took place in the first week of the new academic year. A new name the "University of Limerick Debating Union" was adopted.
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