School pupils compete at Stormont to be best speaker in Edgar Graham memorial competition
Anne Graham, sister of the murdered Ulster Unionist politician Edgar, speaks (above) in the senate chamber at Stormont on Wednesday night at the close of the Edgar Graham Memorial Public Speaking Competition.
The annual event is open to school pupils in Northern Ireland.
The entrants are pictured with Ms Graham and the Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann MLA.
This year the competition, in which all entrants speak on a subject of their choosing for five minutes, was won by Olivia Neil of Ballyclare Secondary.
Edgar Graham, a politician, lawyer and academic, was shot dead at the age of 29 by the IRA at the edge of Queen’s University in 1983.