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Compass Point ·0· che IRISh ORlenCee'R The UK's premier orienteering kit supplier No.83 October - November 1997 'RC1.S0 Compass Point is the appointed ~~ Jt, UK main agen~ for l,~~ .\~r~~ o;.~{> SILVA OL equipment '... ~~~'" I .~ <YOb . "", ~~ ~ ........-- '\ ('>0J. ~~~~ SG' ...... ~ ~J' ~.o/' "" .........~...... ::~ ... ' , ~ ~o ...... _ w -W' I l!" ~~~~. ~ Send Sae for mail order details New shoes for 1997 Visit our shops at events or contact us at our Lytham shop THE IRISH ORIENTEER ADDRESS LIST 199; ") The Irish Orienteer i~,~i1able from all Irish orienteering clubs AJAX ORIENTEERS John Maguire. 1 Avondale Mews. 19 Pork Ave .• IRISh oraencecc Sondymount.Dublin 4 (01-2691196) or by direct subscription from che ATHLONE RTC ORIENTEERS Nigel Foley-flsher. RTC.Dublin Rd.•Athlone. Co. Westmeoth the Editor: John McCullough. 9 No.83 October - November 1997 (0902-24465) Arran Road. Dublin 9 BISHOPSTOWN OC Ted Lucey. Kilpodder. Dromahone. Mallow. Co. Cork (022- 47300) (e-mail jmcctio@ioUe). Dogging a Fled Horse BLACKWATER VAU£Y OC John Geary. Marshalstown. Mitchelstown. Co. Cork (022-25306) CORK ORIENTEERS Miriam ni ChoiHr.6 Ashton Pork. Bkrckrock, Cork (021-319838) Annual subscription costs CURRAGH-NAAS ORIENTEERS John Colclough. 28 The Village. Newbridge. Co. Kildare (045- ell.we've had the World Championships. the 432267) IR£7.SO for 6 issues including Junior World Championships and the three DEFENCE FORCES ORIENTEERS Comelt. Denis Reidy. Adj. Genoral's Branch. Parkgote. Dublin 8 postage. W; DUBUN UNIVERSITY ORIENTEERS The Secretory. Box 67. Regent House. TCD. Dublin 2. Home Internationals since the last issue of FERMANAGH ORIENTEERS BillRegan. 9 Floravllle. Enniskillen. Co. Fermanogh BT746AP (08- N EXT COPY DA TE The Irish Orienteer. How did we fare? Una Creagh 01365-326213) and Marcus Pinker qualified for the finals at the FINGAL ORIENTEERS Lillian Quill. 640 Collins Ave .. Dublin 9 (01-8376506). 2fst Decem"er '997 FORESTWARRIORS OC Tom Conlon. Curratrench. Bollyfarnon. Boyle. Co. Roscommon World Championships but didn't Improve on their (078-47055) Cover Photo: Noel & Mairin qualifying performance In the finals. A few good runs FORMERUCCO Tony Joyce. L1ndlsfarne. Blshopstown. Cork (021-541246). In the Home Internationals (particularly John Feehan GALWAY ORIENTEERS Fronk Ryan. St. Mary·s. Balllnfoyle. Galway (091-753829). Morrish {LeeOrienteers), GALWAY RTC ORIENTEERS The Secretory. P.E.Dept. RTC.Dublin Rood. Galway (091-753161- Malrin died Just before the and Toni O'Donovan at the Seniors) and some good 2213) Shamrock O-Ringen. (Photo: runs In the Veterans' and Juniors' events. Apart from GREAT EASTERN NAVIGATORS Nora Lalor. 6 Knockslnna Grove. Foxrock, Dublin 18 (01-2893497) Eadaoin Morrish) that? Dtsappotnttng, really, You may ask why the KERRY ORtENTEERS Rory Costello. 14 Manor Court. Monor Village. Irolee. Co. Kerry. (066-25532) resources are being put Into elite orienteering If the LAGAN VALLEY ORIENTEERS Geoft Somerville. 6 The Hili.Queensway. Derryiaghy. BT179EY resulting performances are disappointing. why not (08-01232-612284) CONTENTS put the money into Juniors. developing new clubs or LEEORIENTEERS Clore Nuttall. 4 Upr. Panorama Tee.. Sunday's Well. Cork (021- News 4 Increasing membership. The fact Is that the 300373) World Chelmjls RejlOrt 10 resources are not being put In to the elite. or to MIDLAND NAVIGATORS Barbaro Foley-Fisher.Holly Cottage. Glasson. Athlone. Co. World Cup PrevIew 20 Westmeoth (0902-85306) JHI RtjlOrt 21 anything else. for the Simple reason that there are no NORTH WEST OC Maureen Loughery. 39 Moyola Ave .. Castle Dawson. Co. Derry WOCmujI n real resources. In ftnanctal terms anyway. Sure. the (08-01648-68602). Pfannlrlll comjltlllfon 24 lOA bas enough money to survive on a day to day SETANTA ORIENTEERS Jocelyn Cathalln. 36 Toney Rood. Dundrum. Dublin 14(01- JWOC 000 after 26 2985799) EUrojIton Tour (I) 28 basis. but when It comes to helping Irish teams to SOUTHERN ORIENTEERS Kevin O'Dwver, 2 Wellington Villas. Military H~1.Cork (021-506740) 10FNtws 29 travel to World Championships. or to enter Home THOMOND ORIENTEERS Michael Meade. 7 Cedar Court. Kennedy Pork. Limerick I.tllers VOQt 31 Internationals. the money Just Isn't there. There Is a (0610412104) SHf RtjlOrt 32 great reliance on Individuals' freely given time and THREE ROCK OC M61reWalsh. MaOlpork. Kilmocanogue. Co. Wicklaw (0 I- VHf RtjlOrr 33 2868871) ltlnsrtr U<lIIUt Rules 34 effort at club level and this is true In the sport up to UCC ORIENTEERS The Secretory. PEOHice. UCC. College Rood. Cork. AII-frekmd I.t<lllUt 36 the highest levels. That's a great asset. but we also UCD ORIENTEERS The Secretory. Box 55. Library Building. UCD. Belfield. Dublin 4. Rtsulrs 39 need to take a serious look at where we're going. to UCG ORIENTEERS The Secretory. c/o Porter's Desk. Concourse. University College. flxturts 42 Galway. have an ongomg Ilnanclal plan with fundralslng for WATERFORD ORIENTEERS Veronica Purcell. Lodge's Lone. Newtown Hili.Tramore. Co. future events. The Squad fundratslng days are a dead Printed by Denton Print. Waterford. loss. simply because the squad doesn't exist and If it IRISH O-ASSOCtATtON c/o Yvonne Begley. AFAS.House of Sport. Longmile Rood. Dundrum. Dublin 14. Dublin 12.(01-4509845. fox 4502805). lOA Secretary: Ken Griffin. did it would be largely abroad. 12 Island Way. Muskerry Estate. Ballincollig. Co. Cork (021- 870338). e-moll epocork@io/./e Results and articles are owhat do we need? An Irish-based Squad co- NORTHERN IRELAND OA Steven Linton. 39 Prince Edward Drive. Belfast BT95GB (08- particularly welcome on 3 112 ordinator for the Senior team at least. a 01232-665439) inch floppy disks with a printed recognisable squad. a financial plan for the BRITISH O-FEDERATION Riversdale. Dole ROOdNorth. Darley Dale. Matlock. Derbyshire s version as back up. Please keep future and more Input from orlenteers. The World DE4 2HX(0044-1629-734042. FAX0044-1629-733769). tNTERNATIONAL O-FEDERATtON Sec. Gen.: Barbro Ronnberg. Radlokatu 20. FI-00093SLU.Finland the formatting simple! Cup In Killarney next May and the World (00358-405853801. fax 00358-934813113; e-moil Championships In Scotland In August 1999 are two JOf@Of/enfeer/ng.org ISSN 0790-1194 great opportunities. If we grasp them positively we can be confident of the future. So. this time. don't For 24-hour orienteering Information ring (81)-4569899 Just say "Ah sure. I'll let someone else do It". It's up to everyone reading this to help secure the future of (lOR) or (8844-)1399-813281 (NIDR). ortenteertng for our children and grandchildren. 2 The Irish Orienreer The Irish Orienleer 3 EUROMEETING '97 "It's a minor disaster f(. )e. In effect, It puts me Last control accidcr s..)y not put out in a multi- instead of I :7500 to 1:15000. The British O-Squad is organising three days of out until next season ... Ihad left my job to try my day event. This was embarrassing to the ( Can you quickly work out what the final scale orienteering for national teams in the Lake luck on the continent and now I'm out, organisers who had to quickly get the control and should have been instead of 1:15000? There was District on October 3 l-Novernber 2. The teams He's not the first to fall Into the herbal tea trap. run away with it to the final control site in front of some incredible kilometre rates on this map.) who have indicated they will take part are British sprinter Linford Christie received a rap spectators. The club event where there were not enough Finland, Denmark. Norway, Sweden, on the knuckles and a warning to be more careful Controls moved by the criminal element. The maps and the organisers bad to ask previous Switzerland, Britain and Ireland. The event will In future when be tested positive at the SeOUl control site was too ncar cannabis plots and they starters to recycle their maps for Inter runners. be an excellent introduction to some of the terrain Olympics after a pot of the pick-me-up. (Irish came and removed it. A control was blown 400m downhiU after a very to be used for the World Cup races next year and Independent. August 13th 1997) Fallen trees completely covering a control and windy night before the event. also to travel on to train in Scotland prior to WOC only the Clipper could be seen. Most Orienteers A control completely chewed after a cow licked, 99. THE GOOD NEWS found it and kept On going to finish the course. chewed and spat out a control which looked like a The format is for a short race at Great Tower The good news is that, as a member of an lOA or The weird thing about this was that most thought salt lick. Wood on Friday 31st, a Classic distance race at NIOA-affiliated orienteering club, you are I had deliberately done lhis to make it trickier for Competitors chased by an enraged bull stung by Witherslack on Saturday and a relay at Bigland entitled to a reduction on tbe entry fee at every them. bees ncar a control. on Sunday. entry-on-the-day event run under the auspices of Control in a small depression completely covered Having to swim a raging river 8 times wbere a Entry fees are STG£40 per competitor, including the lOA (e.g Leinster League, Cork League, etc) by water after a downpour. river had become swollen. Unluckily the course all events and the social. The event centre is All map courses had to be redrawn the night crossed it several times. This event should have Lakeside YMCA, Newby Bridge. THE BAD NEWS before the event after the pen used to draw the been cancelled.