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AJAX ORIENTEERS Peter Kernan, 29 Wlilowbank Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin14,(kernanpeter@eircom,net) ATHLONE IT ORIENTEERS Nigel Foley-Fisher, AIT, Dublin Rd., Athlone, Co, Westmeath (0902-24465) BISHOPSTOWN OC Sean Cotter, 45 Rossbrook, Model Farm Rd, Cork, (021-4546194) BLACKWATER VALLEY OC Ellen Feehan, Scarteen Lower, Newmarket, Co, Cork (029-60385) che IRISh oracncecc COMMUNITY GAMES ORIENTEERS Ted Lucey, Kilpadder, Drornahane, Mallow, Co, Cork (022-47300) CIT ORIENTEERS Padralg Finnegan, Sports Office, Cork Inst. of Technology, Rossa Ave., Cork, CORK ORIENTEERS Rick Austin, Gurteenroe, Macroom, Co, Cork (026-42095) The lrish Orienteer is available CURRAGH·NAAS ORIENTEERS Gareth Evans, 142 Rathcurragh, Green Rd, Newbrldge, Co. Kildare. (045 from all Irish orienteering 435515) clubs or by direct subscription SOMETHING FOR DEFENCE FORCES ORIENTEERS Comdt. Brendan Delaney, Inf,mtry School, Military College, from the Editor: John McCul- Curragh Camp, Co. Klldare. lough, 9 Arran Road, Dublin 9 EVERYONE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ORIENTEERS The Secretary. DU Orienteers, House 27. TCD, Dublin 2.; e-mail FERMANAGH ORIENTEERS Mary Campbell, 5 Knocknamoe Bungalows. Oma9h. Co. Tyrone (048- [email protected] 82246818) n unnoticed computer problem during the pro- FINGAL ORIENTEERS Tom Burke, 2 Sycamore Ave .. Beaufort Place. Navan. Co, Meath (046·74711) duction of the last issue turned the editorial GALWAY/MAYO IT ORIENTEERS The Secretary. P.E. Dept .. GMIT, Dublin Road, Galway (091.753161- Annual subscription costs from a plea for help into a mass of gibberish, 2213) €9.S0 for 6 issues, A GREAT EASTERN NAVIGATORS Nora Lalor, 6 Knocksinna Grove, Foxrock, Dublin 18 (01·2893497) possibly even exemplifying the lack of time for pro- KERRY ORIENTEERS Rory Costello, 14 Manor Court, Tralee, Co, Kerry, (066·25532) Cover: Seamus OBoyle ducing The Irish. Orienteer that] had been describing, LAGAN VALLEY ORIENTEERS Stephen Gilmore, 41 Drumlouqh Road, Hillsborough, Co, Down. BT266PX (CNOC) at the JK in the Lake (048-92683812), To those of you who managed to make sense of it, LEE ORIENTEERS Clare Nuttall, 4 upr. Panorama Tee" Sunday'S Well, Cork (021·4300373) District at Easter (Photo - well done, To the rest of you, sorryl MIDLAND NAVIGATORS Barbara Foley·Flsher, Holly Cottage, Glasson, Athlone, Co. Westmeath (0902· Ruth Lynam), 85306) J have had a few offers to help with the finances and NORTH WEST OC Charles Reid, 55 Brentwood Park, Belfast. BT5 7LQ, (04890.866072) NEXT COPY DATE distribution ofT10, If I could get some people to write NUIGO The Secretary, c/o Studenls' Union. NUl, Galway (irene_ralston@hotmall,com) 30U. August 2004 articles, we'd be on the way again '" OK DCU Dublin City University, David Healy (davld,healy9@mail,dcu,le) SETANTA ORIENTEERS Michael Mangan, Chapel. Redcross, Co, Wlcklow, (0404-41708) We have just had a superb Irish Championships and CONTENTS SLIGO ORIENTEERING CLUB Joe Bannon, Corrigeenroe, Boyle, Co, Roscommon (086·8305335) next year's promises to be very different-see inside THREE ROCK OC Vera Murtagh, 19 The ClOisters, Terenure, Dublin 6W (01-4908237) Club contacts 2 for details, UCC ORIENTEERS The Secretary, PE Office, UCC, College Road, Cork, News 4 UCD ORIENTEERS Box 64, Student Centre, UCD. Belfield, Dublin 4 (onenteering,club@ucd,Ie) Champs 14 This year will provide plenty of raw material: the UL ORIENTEERS Ed Niland, c/o Clubs Officer, ULSU, University of Limerick ([email protected],le) lOA Executive 15 Welsh 6-Day, the World Championships, the Setanta WA TERFORD ORIENTEERS Andrew Cox, Newtown School, Newtown, Waterford (wat02@waterfordlreland, Dublin Sprint Series 16 com) Rogaine, the World Vets in Italy, the things you have WESTERN EAGLES· GALWAY ORIENTEERS Frank Ryan, St. Mary's, Balllnfoyle, Galway (091.753829), Veteran Teams 17 learned that might help beginners: the list goes on, IRISH O·ASSOCIATION Dave Weston, 49 AshlaY/n, Ballinteer, Dublin 16 (01·2960854) www.orienteerlng.le MTBO report 18 IRISH ORIENTEERING JUNIORS Nlanh Lalor ([email protected]) Irish Champs 19 The advent of the internet means that the focus of TIO NORTHERN OA Raymond Finlay, Gortatole OEC, Florencecourt, Co, Fermanagh BT92 1EO (048. Leinster League analysis 22 is changing from immediate information to perhaps 66348888) lOA AGM/Veteran HI 25 more a review of the orienteering scene, More input CONNACHT OA Padralg Higgins, 24 Alverno Ave, Willow Park, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Orienteering fixtures 26 from lOA would be very welcome: the lOA AGM at LEINSTER OA Vera Murtagh. 19 The Cloisters, Terenure. Dublin 6W (01-4908237) Mountain Running 27 MUNSTER OA John MUcklan, 13 Elmvale Close, Wilton, Cork (021-4343348) Inch in May highlighted the reluctance of orienteers to IRISH·O STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Susan Healy, 11 Belmont Grove, Blacltrock, Co. Dublin (01-2885798) take on the serious roles of Secretary, Public Relations BRITISH O·FEDERATIONRlversdale, Dale Road North, Darley Dale, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2H(0044· Printed by Denton Print, Officer and Development Officer. This trend has been 1629·734042, FAX 0044·1629·733769) www,britishorienteering,org,uk Dundrum, Dublin 14, INTERNATIONAL O-FEDERATION Radlokatu 20, FI-00093 SLU, Finland (00358-40585 3801, fax 00358- evident for some time but the positions are vital to the 934613113); www,orlenleering,org Results and articles are par- growth of orienteering. We are caught in a vicious ticularly welcome on disk or circle where we need professional officers to develop Club and other orienteering websltes are accessible from the Irish Orienteering Association website, bye-mail with a printed ver- the sport but we can't afford them because the sport is www.orlenteerlng.le sion as back up, Please keep so small. In the meantime, it falls to us all to play our Remember, for round the clock orienteering information on lOA events ring 1890·923490 and for NIOA the formatting simplel No re- part. events ring 0044-07020·963986 or check the lOA web page at www,orlenteerlng,le or the NIOA page at sponsibility is accepted for Anyway, have a great summer: there's plenty going www.niorlenteering.org,uk, errors or omissions, or their on, from local events [0 the World Championships; consequences. you're bound to find something in there for you! ISSN 0790-1 194 2 The irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 3 If you have any observations or arguments slight increase on the first event at Carrick O-ZONE Short-O: There seems to be some contusion about any aspect of orienteering, why not Mountain. about what exactly Short-O is. One thing write about it to Tlf)? We'll have a 27 bikers tackled the long course, .covering MAROONED? that it is NOT, is Sprint-O. As thename "SpeakersCorner" column from the next an estimated 20km, visiting the extremities L VO kicked off their Autumn season with implies, courses are shorter than normal, issue for you to air your views. of Cronybyme and Ballinastraw over I I an unusual event - on one of the Copeland but the legs are the same length. This control points. A further 9 tackled a trun- Islands off Donaghadee in Co.Down. In means fewer controls. Short-O courses can MAJOR FIXTURES cated version of the Long, covering an esti- previous years tbe event has been post- be 600/0-80% of normal courses. The alter- I wish to compile a comprehensive data- mated 13.7km. poned due to bad weather - access Is by a native is competitors having to run two base of all scheduled, planned, and pro- Pre-nuptial adrenaline propelled JohnCa- small boat. This year the conditions were courses, one after the other. Both short with posed provincial and Irish Championships sey to an impressive victory on the Long favourable, particularly for Declan MeGrel- a winning time of 20-30 minutes. The win- for the next few years. The current details I course, completing it in 65 min, 39 sec, lis who won the 6.1 km Long course in ner is the competitor with the shortest accu- have received from clubs has been patchy, with Eoin Keith second male, over 7 min- 39.26 from Colin Henderson and Ivan Mil- mulated time. The second run may, even be in future I request that all clubs keep me up utes behind. Doug Corrie was third male, a lar. Victoria Agnew won the short course in a chasing start, based 00 the first run. to date 011 Championship event develop- further 2 minutes down. 44.11. ments, preferably by email. Firstly I want In th,e women's class, Elaine Mullen The main hazard this year was rabbit shoot- Park 0: Park 0 is very short with winning 'final confirmed venues and dates for cham- claimed the top spot, with a time of 75 min, ers on the island while planner Richard times of about 15 'minutes. As the name pionship events in the 2004/2005 season. 1 sec, which was good for third overall, A Williamson was checking controls before suggests, events usually take place in parks. Details should be submitted 110 later than little over a minute behind came Nina Phil- the start ... The navigation is 'usually quite easy with 31 st May, otherwise 1 will not be able to ips, with Mary O'Connell third female, a the emphasis on speed. guarantee the particular date, or that other !:"urther 4 rn in u t.e s behind. GREEN TEAM events will not clash. Down the field, there was much contention Veterans Team Manger Alan Gartside had - the lOA website, www.orienteering.ie I intend to ring-fence the May Bank Holi- for the "Off-piste" award. Brian Bell, Alan orienteers queuing, up to join the squad day weekend for the Irish Championships, Ayling, and Deirdre O'Neill battled hard to when he unveiled the prctotypesof the ALL OF TaE PEOPLE, ALL OF deviation from Which will require very avoid. tracks and take the mythical "short- green jackets he has sourced for the team at THETTME good reasons. cut". However Philip Brennan came out on the Leinster Championships. The 'fleece Some years ago the lOA and NIOA decided For Championship events in the 05106 sea- top, visiting parts of the forest even the jackets have an embroidered "Orienteering to fix the date for the Irish Championships son and beyond, could the organising club native deer would baulk at. Clear winner in Ireland Veteran 'team" logo and a nylon as tile May Bank Holiday weekend. This please contact me as soon as they are ap- the push bike category was Paul Mahon, outer shell to-repel U1C elements. always struck me as an eminently sensible pointed by their regional council, and indi- who, despite breaking a chain early on, Jackets areavailable from Alan at €33/STG idea: it's the end of the season, the weather cate the particular event they plan to stage, completed the course in push bike £22. should be reasonable, the vegetation not too and the proposed area (as soon as it has fashion, his recent marathon pram-push ~,VO have them in red and otber orienteer- high, the days long, there is Lime to travel been decided)? efforts clearly paying dividends. ing and even from hockey clubs have ex- from 'one end of the country to the other. Finally, could all clubs forward to me con- On the medium course, Ruaraidh Stenson pressed interest, However, it doesn't really suit people tact 'details (especially email) of all person- came out on top, with the indefatigable studying for exams and next year this nel they wish to receive fixtures correspon- Sean Hassett in second, and Harold White weekend will clash with World Cup races dence? third. being held in the south of England where Fergal Buckley Unfortunately Justin May, Justin Keatinge, SPRlNT~Oor SHORT-O? many of our elite competitors will be run- lOA Fixtures Secretary and Marcus Geoghegan tailed to complete Sprint-O: Sprint-O courses are shorter than ning. their courses. Marcus and Justin (May) both normal courses but with the same number Since the Irish Championships ill Kerry MTBO REPORT had nasty collisions with a forest entrance of controls. The main feature of sprint there has been some discussion on the Irish Crouybyrne/Ballinastraw -Brendan O'Con- barrier, while Justin Kearinge damaged a courses, therefore, is very short legs. This Orienteering e-group (an internet orienteer- nor shoulder enroute to' the first control. Fortu- means that competitors are using close-in ing discussion group) looking at the pros The second event of four, of the inaugural nately no broken bones were suffered, and navigation skills at high speed. Do not con- and cons of this weekend for roc. Bank Irish MTBO series, took place on 8'h May we wish them all a speedy recovery. fuse this with Short-O - I know some or- holiday weekends allow for maybe three at Cronybyrne/Ballinastraw in the vale of ganisers do! races (as this year) but mean more traffic Clara, Co. . The weather was kind, A small ·ntunber of competitor's inadvcr- on the roads. and in total 36 competitors took part, a tently disqualified themselves, interpreting

4 The Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 5 the rules in relation to two sets of cluster lazaru s. elte, hu/mc/i soml mbo/m bo2. htm points In the Spring Cup. Ben Mangan m o r € 6 . 5 m . controls somewhat liberally!. (MI2, SET) and Brendan O'Brien (M35, This specification will be used at the 2004 will be receiving confirmation letters in Ajax) both clocked up a very impressive MTB-WOC in Australia. The official PDF Results:: Long, 20km, IIC due course which I will pass onto each af- 196 points including three wins each. Both file including only the MTB-O map sym- 1 John Casey M21 01:05:39 filiated club. This may take a few days, also had two second places. However Ben bols will be released in May, and the file 2 Eoin Keith M35 0):) 3:22 however, I will be away for the next few also had a third place which puts him ahead will be published on the Map Commission 3 Elaine Mullan W21 01 :15:01 weeks so it may not be until the end of May of Brendan to make Ben Mangan men's website. The revision work will be contin- before I will be in a position to post out the overall Spring Cup champion, 2004. His Medium, 13.7km, 8C relevant insurance confirmation letters. ued after the 2004 MTB- WOC. sister Anna (W I 0) was the highest scoring 1 Ruaraidh Stenson M21 01:06:28 female with 190 points making her 2 Sean Hassett M35 01:24:31 John Casey For the 10F Map Commission, women's overall Spring Cup Champion, 3 Harold White M40 01 :27: 19 lOA Treasurer 10F/Anu Haapalainen 2004. That's all tor this season. Ihope to see your MAP OF THE YEAR SETANTA ROGAINE LEINSTER LEAGUE name in the results from the first Leinster lOA Mapping Officer, Marcus Geoghegan, TABLES League event of the 2004/2005 season The Setanta Wicklow Rogaine will take which will probably coincide with the Vet- wants to revitalise the Map of the Year Congratulations to Setanta, the 200312004 place this year on 19-20 June. erans' Home International in Carlingford on competition. There arc categories for what Leinster Inter-Club League winners. The Details and entry forms are now available October 3rd. used to be called Grade 1, Grade 2 and at www.setantaorienleers.org/rogaine final tally is available on www.orienteering. Grade 3 maps (i.e. areas capable of holding ie/lcinster Marcus Geoghegan, Leinster Orienteering Grade l/Championship events, colour The Rogaine is a long-distance overnight Consistency and strength in depth saw them events and local events). There used to be a score orienteering event. through the long haul. But can they do it handsome prize for the Grade I map: a again at the real Leinster inter-club champi- AFFILIA TED CLUBS mounted and framed old-style hachured I" lOA Treasurer John Casey has confirmed 0- MAP SPECIFICATIONS onship, GEN's inter-club score event on map which was frcquently won by Justin May 30th in Ballinastoe? that the following clubs have paid their May. The [OF Map Commission has released a affiliation (or indicated that they would pay new version of the International Specifica- No competition was held this year: does Spring Cup 2004 winners are: by 10C 04) anyone know where the award is? tion for Sprint Orienteering Maps (ISSOM). This version is called "ISSOM Yellow: Anna Mangan of Setanta; course With the advent of OCAD it is becoming winner; Cathal O'Cleirigh of Ajax; best The following is a list of affiliated clubs: more difficult to tell a good map from a bad Final draft 2004". The draft will be used at Athlone IT OC, DCU 0, Ajax, Galway 01 the World Cup event and European Orien- male unless you run on it: they all look superb Orange: Ben Mangan of Setanta; course Western Eagles, 3ROC, Bishopstown OC, but the quality of the survey is where the teering Championship in Denmark and at Midland Navigators, GMIT OC, Kerry 0, the 2004 World Orienteering Champion- winner; Toni Butler of 3ROC; best female difference lies. Oncc you could look at a Lt Green: Cian O'Boyle of CNOC; course UL Orienteers, UCDO, GEN, Sotanta, Cork map and say it looked rubbish but that's ships in Sweden. The national federations 0, Fingal Orienteers. are asked to test this new lSSOM version winner; Nora Lalor of GEN; best female normally no longer so. Green: Peter Gargan of Ajax: course win- If you are a member of a club that is not If you can shed any light on the competi- and to send their feedback to the lOF Map affiliated then you cannot be crowned Irish Commission by the end of October 2004. ner; Fiona O'Brien of Ajax; best female tion or the whereabouts of me award, Blue: Seamus O'Boyle of CNOC; course Champion should such an event arise MId please contact marcus at map- According to the original timeframe, the winner; Ruth Lynam of CNOC; best female you will not have a vote at the AGM of the [email protected] or phone 086-837- 10F Council is expected to approve the lOA. final version of ISSOM in 2005. See http:// Brown: Brendan O'Brien of Ajax 8200 The following are the appropriate fees: lazarus. elte.hu/mclissoml2004-20. pd r Peter Kernan has announced special prizes New Clubs (for first 3 years of existence) €65 lOA INSURANCE The lOP Mountain Bike-Orienteering Com- for juniors who did well in the Spring Cup; The lOA has concluded the renewal its in- junior prize-giving will be at the Ballinas- Clubs of under 50 members €130 mission and the Map Commission have Clubs with 51 - 100 members €200 surance today (effective 19th May) - there agreed on the improvement of the MTB-O toe event. Clubs with over 100 members €260 + €2 has been a considerable reduction in the map specification. The changes after the ) am going to take the liberty to declare all for every member over 100. premium to under €6000. The type of cover release of the original IS0M2000 are listed overall Spring Cup men's and women's obtained is pub lie liability insurance to the on the Map Commission website: http:// champion. Nobody scored a perfect 200

6 TIre Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 7 EUROPEAN TRAIL 0 2000 Faith White - SET has made an outstanding contribution to com The Trail 0 Commission are pleased to 2001 Julie & Ronan Cleary - 3ROC Orienteering during the previous year confirm that ffSO will host the European 2002 Bob Pinker - CorkO mainly in a backroorn type capacity, i.e. not Mary Healy, II Belmont Grove, Galloping Trail 0 Championships from 4th - 8th July a prominent elite orienteer, not a member Green, Blackrock, Co. Dublin .. 2004, in conjunction with the World Mas- of national or regional committees. Email: [email protected] ters Orienteering Championships in Asiago, Mactire Trophy Italy. Although in the mountains the areas This trophy was presented by Mactire Ori- Previous Winners: CONNACHT CHAMPS chosen arc fully accessible to disabled peo- enteering Club when it disbanded, to a per- 1996 Robert O'Connor - CorkO ple. We look forward to seeing you there. son who has made an outstanding contribu- 1997 10lu1McCullough - 3ROC CANCELLED tion to orienteering during the previous 1998 Margaret Creedon - CorkO The organisers of the 2004 Connacht Full details arc available on http://www. year in any of the following four capacities: 1999 Martin Flynn - AJAX Championships unfortunately had to cancel fiso.itltrail-o/euroasiag02004/ and your a) Achievement in Competition 2000 Lindie Naughton - 3ROC the event, already changed to Lough Key, attention is drawn to the information on b) Mapping, planning, controlling or organ- 2001? Co. Roscommon, at short notice. They an- accommodation and Bulletin I. ising an event. 2002 Nora Lalor - GEN nounced "Galway Orienteers "The Western Anu Haapalainen, Tor c) Administration. Eagles" regret the cancellation of the d) Other activities which the lOA may COn- O-SPORT Connacht Orienteering Championships sider meritable. MAGAZINE scheduled for Lough Key Forest Park on lOA AWARD WINNERS GEN's Mary Healy has take I) 011 the distri- (previous winners arc ineligible to win the Sunday 21st March 2004 due to unforeseen If you can fill in any of the gaps, please bution on Orienteering Sport magazine in trophy again) difficulties." contact TIO. Ireland. She writes "As the No. I fan of this This cancellation caused problems for the magazine, they have Wisely asked me to be Previous Winners: Veteran Team selectors who were relying Silva Tropby their agent here in Ireland. If you haven't 1981 Catherine Murtagh - SET heavily on the provincial championships as "To a person who has contributed in a most seen it yet, this is a really great colour 1982 John McCullough - 3ROC selection events for the Veteran Home In- deserving manner to the development of magazine, reporting on all the big, impor- 1983 Frank Ryan - PXN ternational at Carlingford in October. Team Orienteering in their country". tant orienteering competitions around the 1984 Faith White - SET Manager Alan Gartside used the 3ROC world and giving great insight into the 1985 Nuala Creagh - 3ROC Leinstcr League final at Clara as a substi- Previous Winners: minds and training or the orienteering 1986 Aonghus O'Cleirigh - AJAX tute selection event. 1981 world's elites, At last you can put faces on 1987 Padraig Higgins - PXN 1982 those names of great orienteers, Also, the 1988 Sean Cotter - CorkO 1983 articles capture the 'buzz' there is around TOO MANY EVENTS'? 1989 ? 1984 Pat Healy - CNOC these big international competitions. The Recent discussion on the Irish orienteering 1990 '? 1985 magazine is brought to you by a few young electronic discussion group centred on the 1991 Frank Cunnane - CorkO 1986 Sean Cotter - CorkO orienteering enthusiasts from the Czech quantity and quality of events. What do you 1992 Bernard Creedon - CorkO 1987 Republic, who go to many of the competi- think? 1993 Pat Flanagan - 3ROC 1988 tions themselves and report from them. 1994 Trina Cleary - 3ROC J 989 Brian Corbett - CorkO Martin Flynn started: "In an idle moment, f 1995 Richard Kavanagh/Miriam J 990 John McCullough/Bernard Creedon I will have back copies of the magazine went through the fixtures list and counted NiChoilir - CorkO 3ROClCorkO with me, at events, so you can see how the number of upcoming events. For the 1996 Una Creagh -3ROC 1991 Liam O'BrienlMary Curran - CorkO good it is for yoursel r. months of March, April. May, June and 1997 Kevin O'Dwyer - CorkO 1992 John Walsh - PXN Anyone who wishes to subscribe to this JIIly, J counted 77 events in the Republic 1998 Marcus Pinker - CorkO 1993 Brian Hollinshead - 3ROC magazine can do so, either by sending me alone! People. this is insane! For the 1999 Justin May - 3ROC 1994 Marcus Pinker - CorkO your detai IS (name; address; email) and same period the BOF site has 156 2000 Rosarie Kiernan - GEN 1995 Eileen Loughman - CNOC €35, or sending YOUT details and money events. Just twice as many for 20 times the 2001 John Feehan - AJAX 1996 Colin Dunlop - SET directly to the publishers, if you pre- pop 11 I a f i 0 II 2002 Ruth Lynam - CNOC 1997 Noel Donagh - lvrNAV fer. The magazine is published seven times What Is going on here? As the participation 1998 Ted Lucey - BOC a year (I double issue) and each issue will rate is decreasing. we are holding more Silva Award I999 Ken Griffin -CorkO be posted direct to your address." and more events. We are at a stage where This trophy is presented to a person who Check OUI the website at www.orient-sport. there are probably nearly as many events in 8 The irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 9 the year as regular orienteers in the coun- attendances at fewer events although it is not compete in the long distance due to a some stage in the near future to 'coordinate t I' Y also questionable whether Irish forests can shoulder injury. everyone's responses with a view to draft- Holding all these events is not increasing cope with the parkingrequirements. ing a new plan. our numbers. Instead, it must be pulling The same people we doing the work ali the Results. If you could reply to me with either an ex- pressure on the small band of people who time and the only thing keeping them going Men: pression of interest in attending the work- are prepared to organise events. Yet pre- is their love of the sport which says some- I. Eduard Khrennikov (RUS)l :52.40; shop, or if you wish to send your views on sumably, it is this dedicated few wh.o are thing about the unique appeal that orien- 2. Tomas Lofgren (8WE) 1.54.39; the Strategic directly to me, then I would be agreeing 10 all these events iY? teering has. 3. Tommy Olsen (NOR)1:54.45 ... delighted to hear from you. Please don't Do we need up co 10 events on some week- In the UK the sport is much larger and 54. ROIYMorrish (TRL) 3;41:08 leav.e this up to someone else. We need ends? Are these events improving the sport therefore the numbers willing to travel to your views, your opinions and your input. or keeping it down? Would we be better off further away events is larger, presumably Women. Dave Weston, lOA Chairman. with fewer, better, more expensiveii) still large enough to make those events 1. Stine Kirkevik (NOR) J :25.55; eve n t s? worth running. If the situation was the 2. Hannele Valkonen (FIN) 1.28::23; (The workshop had been planned to follow What do people think? Do you need to get same in Ireland (i. e. fewer events, further 3. Natalia Tomilova (RUS) 1:28.23. the - cancelled- Connacht .Championships St your 0fIX evelY week and twice during the away) then the casual orienteers wouldn't on March 21 ) summer?" go and of the remaining say 300 regular The medium distance race took off with a orienteers a significant proportion proba- mass start. The 15 top-ranked competitors ONLY THE TOUGHEST ... "... I agree with Martin. We need more , bly won't travel more than an hour to' an had a GPS system strapped to their back A.re we targeting the wrong people to intro- quality and less quantity and we shouldn't event. Thus for t11e continued survival of and the race could be followed live on the duce to orienteering? A recent article in be-just running events just for the sake of it. our sport it is probably necessary to run internet with their position showing on the CompassSport argues that we are. lt is important to remember that organising events in each province most weekends. map. This was worth checking out as the In Norway the emphasis has Changed from an event takes time and effort, the more Leaving aside such thing« as the MTBO first past the line was the winner. the happy families type orienteering, a nice events we run the greater chance there IS of league and CNOC summer league the re- way to add interest to a rural walk organiser burnout. I believe we loose more suiting events total probably averages out The web link is as follows: www.asarna, C"BeagJing for vegetarians" as. TIO de- good people to orineteering in this way at one event per province per week or close com/skiwoc04 scribed it), to emphasising that it's a tough than we gain from running all these to it. - Paul Smyth Rory Morrish. sport where fitness, stamina and navigation events. " - John Casey tum a race into-a real test where only the SKI-O WORLD CHAMPS lOA STRATEGIC PLAN toughest survive. 1 agree with a lot of what you say Martin. The World ski orienteering championships The strategic plan for the Irish Orienteering You only have to look at the numbers tak- The overall figures are bad enough but if 2004 are look place at Asarna, Sweden in Association is ·due to be revised and up- ing part in tough endurance events who are you look even more closely there are couple February. There w e r e dated. This is a very important document, looking for a real challenge to see that there of dubs who are running an. extraordinary 24 nations entered. Representing Ireland as not only is it our mission statement set- are lots of people out there to-whom such number of events. In Dublin the issue isn't were Eunice Cinnamon (LVO) and Rory ting the goals and targets to sustain and an approach would appeal. the same as most clubs run a max of about Morrish (LeeO): hopefully progress our sport, but it also Anyone who has been orienteering in Ire- four events per year some of which would In the long distance event the mens class largely determines our level of funding land in winter (or even summer) knows just be local events. was 23.2 km with 980m climb. The (along with our involvement with the how tough it can be and how far-fetched We are a tiny country yet people are just women's event was 15.9 km with 555m NCTC)fi'om the Sports Council of Ireland. the idea of a pleasant family stroll is. not willing to travel for more than 40 min- climb. The start of the event hung in the The existing strategic plan can be viewed at Maybe FermO have the idea with their utes to an hour (0 an everu. .1 think the balance as with -26 CiJ,) the morning the http;//orienteering.ie/ioa/StrategicPlan.doc. Tough Guy series, or Gareth Florida James situation is different in the UK where peo- temperature was under the -20 C limit for 1 urge each and every one of yon, if you (ex NWOq; winner of the infamous Tough ple are willing to drive Jar 3-4 hours .. Also racing. have an interest in the future of our sport, to Guy race in Britain. correct me I'm wrong but they run a se- if Eventually after a two hour delay the ther- read -this plan. We need to get a wide a Any takers? ries of Badge events which amount to a mometer crept above -20 C. Skiing in these view as possible on peoples opinion on nationalranking system and there is there- cold conditions was a challenge for all as what should be done and striven for, what WI6 TROPHY MYSTERY fore more motivation for people 10 travel to even with good skis the glide is not is achievable, what should be omitted or these events. The unique bronze cast perpetual tro- 100%. Russia and Norway came out tops included, and so on. l think there is a tot to be gained by larger phy for the W 16 category, made and- in the men and women's class. Eunice did I hope to organise an afternoon workshop at

10 The Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 11 LAST MINUTE ... JOSS MAKES HISTORY donated by the Creagh family, was not Irisb Championships 2005 Neil Dobbs and Niall BUT~ewere ratified 3ROC's Joss Lynam, oneof the founders-of returned to Bishopstown Orienteering First announcement of 10C 2005: bythe Council of University Sports Admin- Irish orienteering, made history in June Club in time for the 2004 Irish Cham- Saturday 30th April to Monday 2nd istrators Ireland (CUSM) to take part in the when he ran as the first Irish M80 at the pionships. May World University Orienteering Champion- CNOC evening series event at Hill Wood, If you have it, or know of its where- lnishbofin., Connemara, Co. Galway ships at Pilsen, Czech Republic from 20th- Monasterevan. abouts, please contact Sean Cotter 27th June, The event attracted about 70 runners to this Organisers WEGO, CNOC, GMlTO Frank Ryan was the Team Manager. little-used area of runnable forest with com- ([email protected]) or arrange Inishbofin ten-ain is embargoed for ex- to send it directly to the Winner, Er- plex sections of old quarries. pected participants of the TOC 2005 Joss, who is also very well known in the inna Foley-Fisher, in Glasson, Athlone. Dublin's Setanta Orienteers won the inter- Website www.inishbofin.com club league based on the: results of the mountaineering world, has not been orien- -lOA Executive Committee Frank Ryan, Event Coordinator, Leinster League events and topped off the teering recently because of illness. We wish Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, season with a win in the inter-club champi- Joss all the best in his new class. O-PHOTOS WANTED Dublin Road, Galway. onship event run by GEN 'at Ballinastoe on In order to build a stock of Irish Orien- Tel. 091 742213, May 30th. This year's event was a score event with all teering photos for use in general pub- Email: [email protected] JKREPORT licity, in TIO, and on websites, the the scores from a club's runners being The combination of Lake District terrain added to givc the club's score. Irish Orienteering Association is run- and top-class competition lured a good MTBOLEAGUE Setanta finished with 1660 points, ahead of ning. a photo competition with a clos- number of Irish orienteers to the Jan Kjell- Martin Flynn and John Casey were GEN's 1640 and 3ROC's 1100. ing date of November 30th, 2004. €250 strom O-Festil\ial at Easter. Based at joint winners of the long.course in.the Greythwaite Estate, west of Windermere, has been allocated as a prize fund. recent Leinster MTBO league, with The lames brothers, once prominent mem- the event was as testing and rewarding as Any orienteer can enter as many times Justin May and Paul Mahon runners bers of Limavady's NWOC, narrowly you might ex.pect: runnable forests, com- as they want. The photos to be of an failed to enter the record books in the Lon- up. Justin also woo, the over-40 class. plex rock and contour detail, thousands of don Marathon in April. Irish orienteer(s) anywhere showing Nina Phillips-was first W21+ (5th over- competitors and a great atmosphere over Peter (a former Irish Champion), Gareth, any aspect of the sport, and must give a all). the three days- of competition, preceded by good image of the sport for use in Geraint, Michael, Christopher, Mark and an optional training event. The short course league was won by Barry wanted to enter the Guinncss Book-of printed matter and/or websites. Non- Sprint-O World Champion Jamie Steven- Sean Hassett with Colleen Robinson first Records as seven brothers finishing the digital photos will be accepted as long W21+ son won the men's Elite class and Hannah marathon (the previous record was 6) but Wooton won the women's. as they can be 'scanned satisfactorily. The series was run over four events had to pull out when Geraint, a physio- The submitted photos will be stored in with the best three results to COW1t.The therapist, pulled out after 15 miles with a Top ten Irish results included Niamh an online library for use by anyone in advent of mountain bike 'orienteering hip injury. The seven were running nto O'Boyle (CNOC) 2nd W20 elite, Eoin Irish orienteering as long as the photo has given a new lease of life to some raise money for the Children with Leukae- McCullough (3ROC) 6th MlOB, Harry is attributed to the owner. It is hoped to forests for orienteering which are cur- mia charity . MilIar(LVO) lOthMIOB, Meabh McCann publish photos on the web as they are rently unusable because of felling, like (tVO) 2nd WI2A, Aine McCann (LVO) received. For more information please Croghan Mountain or Carrick. JWOC 2004 TEAM 10th W12A, James Logue (NWOC) 3rd send all email to Gavan Doherty As for the participants? It's given them The Irish team at theJ unior World Orien- M35L, Ruth Lynam (CNOC) 5th W45L, ([email protected]) or to a new lease of life too: orienteering and teering Championships, on 4"11 Iuly in Mary Healy (dEN) 10th' W50L, Brigid Flallagan(3ROC) 3rd W55S, Trina Cleary [email protected] mountain biking=-what a combination! Gdynia-Gdansk, Poland is:- Sarah Browne (SUOC), Christian foJey- (3ROC) 2nd W60S, Noel Bogle (NWOC) It legitimises going out and getting all Fisher (MNAV), Patrick I-liggins(LVO), 7th M65S, Bill Regan (FennO) 2ri'dM70S, • IDA Executive Committee mucky, careering headlong down forest Conor O'Brien (BOC) Alan Gartside (LVO) 4th trail-O, LVO 4th roads, gutting it out over the Col de Team leaders are Mary Healy (GEN) under-12 relay (Scan Knight, Meabh Trooperstown.-aH the things you David Healy (DCU/GEN) MCCarul,Aine McCann). weren't allowed to do as a kid.

The Irish Orienteer 13 12 The Irish Orienieer Next year;s JK is in the English midlands, LEINSTER CHAMPIONS event centre Litchfield in Derbyshire, from lOA Executive Th~. main duties of the Secretary are to March 25th-28th. M10 EoinMcCullough 3ROC facilitate communications between the M12A Www.jk2005.org.uk SeanKnight LVO lOA and the regions, clubs and mem- M12B BarryHiggins LVO Positions M14A ClanO'Boyle CNOC A common misconception is that rnern- ber~; to disseminate and archive Infor- LEINSTER M16A RualrlShort CNOC bership of the Irish Oriehteering Asso- rnatlon: to be the single point of contact CHAMPIONSHIPS M18A Ted McCormack G'EN ciation executive committee involves a for the lOA; and to keep formal minutes M20L 2004 ChristianFoley-FisherMNAV lot of travel to meetings. This is not of meetings and decisions. It is not a M21L ColmO'Halioran LEEO true - most decisions are taken by email very ~ne~ous job, it just needs a bit of M21S TerryLawless SET and we now meet every three months or organisation. The good thing is that it The 2004 Leinster Championships was M35L BrendanO'Connor AJAX so by conference call, so it can all be yo~ get paid ~2,500 annually for doing it! run by Setanta Orienteers (who have a M35S JosephDoherty DFO done from the comfort of your own This mo~ey IS paid quarterly as a bur- knack of discovering new areas- M40L MarcusGeoghegan AJAX :1 home. However we do still meet in per- sary, which means that you must make , Powerscourt) - and ex- M40S StephenDoorly GEN son twice a year, usually at a regional sure to declare it for tax yourself. ploiting them. On April 18th it was the ~:~~ ValJones FIN DavidO'Donovan CorkO turn of Glendasan, an open mountain M50L ?hampionship event, to discuss major JohnMcCullough 3ROC Items such as budget allocations. lndi- The ~e~elopmeht Officer is responsible area between Laragh and the Wicklow M50S FrankSwift UCDO vidual members act independently in for thlnkmg long-term abut the sport in Gap, below Lough Nahanagan and the M55L CoilnHenderson LVO their own area of responsibility and do !reland, strengt~ening our links with bod- Turlough Hili power station, a setting M60L Ted Feehan BVOC not have to spend time gaining approval res s~ch as Coillte and the OPW, work- worthy of the explosive finale of any M65L AndrewBonarLaw GEN for every decision they make. Of the Ing With outdoor education centres and James Bond movie. M70L BillRegan FERMO eight current members, six are based in school organisations, and trying to ex- Mapped by Pat Healy at 1:7500 scale, Dublin, one in the south-east and one in pand the sport across the whole country. the map was littered with rock detail and ~~~ CianaJones FIN Aine McCann old mine workings, but the rain in the W12B LVO the south-west; we have no-one from FionaHill CNOC Cork, the midlands or the west. As there The Communications Officer (aka PRO) days before the event made the going W14A ErikaJones FIN is responsible for raising the external very slow and slippery underfoot, with W16A is.virtually no travel required, there is no MarthaCallanan BOC reason why orienteers from these areas profile of Orienteering with the Sports energy-sapping heather an added fea- W16B YvonneBeli GEN can't get involved. Council (who give us money) and with ture. W18A RosllndHussey FERMO the media. In the coming years one of Heavy showers on the day and a long W20S DeirdreBell GEN nd the main tasks will be to find orienteers '(by Irish standards) and mucky (by any W21L RuthLynam CNOC Following the AGM on May 2 , three FionaO'Brien AJAX posts remain vacant: Secretary, Com- who can prepare and rnaintaln good standards) trudge to and from the start V')I2~~ content for the website and work with and finish didn't add to the enjoyment ~;5S EileenYoung FIN munications Officer and Development CathleenMorrison AJAX Officer. In previous years it was pre- the lOA webmaster to keep orienteering. factor. W40L HeatherCairns LVO ie fresh and dynamic. Nevertheless, it was definitely a day W40S sumed that the executive committee TlshMcCann LVO would go out and find someone to take when you knew you had been orienteer- W45L AnnSavage LVO on a vacant role, or would divide up the If you are interested, be you from the ing.: good, tough, physical courses with W50L MaryHealy GEN Coombe or Cork, please contact David testing navigation. W55L JeanO'Neill FIN responsibility amongst the remaining members. This is not the case; the roles Weston (dave.weston.dublincity@luas. Sport Ident timing gave instant results W55S AndreaMcCormack GEN ie, 086-8150512). Maybe there is some- and split times and seemed to work W60L TrinaCleary 3ROC lie vacant and no progress in these ar- FaithWhite SET eas is made until someone from the Ori- one in your club who would be ideal, but flawlessly after its recent upgrading in W70L ') they just need a bit of encouragement? Germany. enteering community steps forward to take on the job. Colm O'Halloran (Lee Orienteers) won The lOA Executive Committee the Men's open class and Ruth Lynam ,~ (CNOC) the women's. While each committee member is largely free to define what he/she should do and can achieve, here are some broad definitions of what each role is:

14 The Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer J5 o event. This series is a very welcome addition Hazel Convery 90 91 94 95 Dublin Sprint For each event the Healys produced Nuala Creagh 90 bagged pre-printed maps~ a well posi- to the Leinster Orienteering calendar. Bernard Creedon 93 94 96 Series Maybe it has to move from Saturday Frank Cunnane 94 tioned start/finish tent and used more Terry Dooris 9091 red funnel-tape than can be seen at a lunchtime to another time of day and Colin Dunlop 91 92 94 Until recently r had never seen a .truly motorway construction project. Saint from Spring to another time of year, but Ted Feehan 91 93949799000203 whatever happens '1 hope that GEN & Raymond Finlay 97 satisfactory definition of what Sprint-O Anne's park in Raheny was a super ex- Teresa Finlay 94 97 03 actually is. Could it be I~~ norrnal-O ample of the use of a small area to great theHealys wi II make it an annual event. Brigid Flanaga n 02 03 Pat Flanagan 02 03 except 'shorter? or maybe It IS the same effect; David only needed to use one Don't forget to support the series' spon- Alan Gartside 93 94 97 00 02 03 as Park-O except 110t in a park? ~y half of this I ;7,500 scale map to design sors: Trimtex (Norway), O-Sport Maga- Marcus Geoghegan 03 question was answered at the Dublm a course that involved route choice on zine, Sprayway, O'Neills Sports, Eddie Nadine Grant 60'03 Mary Healy 95 sprint series, organised by GE~'s both paths and on complex cross- Rockets, Westwood Health Club, Ar- Pat Healy 96 Healy family in five easily accessible country terrain and had us running alter- notts, Total Fitness and Superquinn. Clare Heardrnan 03 arch Colin Henderson 96 96 99 00 02 locations during last February0'1 . nately through forest and parkland. Michael Hewson 90 The series was run as a fundraiser to Each of the five events included at least Maura Higgins 93 97 99 02 03 Marcus Geoghegan Wilbert Hollinger 90 93 95 99 00 allow David Healy, Irish orienteering one well-placed spectator control to en- Diana Large 90 91 93 94 95 96 97 99 00 squad member, to take a year out to pur- sure there was no slacking, a good ex- Ajax Eileen loughman 96 sue his international orienteering ambi- ample being in park where Ruth tynam 9697 99 02 03 Clive Majury 00 tions. we had to run upbill to start the second Heather Majury 93 97 99 00 I now know that Sprint-? is ~ery very lap in full view (and earshot) of the as- Frank Martindale 91 99 00 02 VETERAN Anne May 90 fast, on any type of terrain, With ~ots.of sernbly area. Justin May9S 02 controls (about 20), a short wmmng. Prizes included gym concessions (to ORIENTEERING Freddie McCann 93 99 Frank McCormack 97 time (about 15 minutes), on a sm~1l map make you fit), track-suits (to make you Paget McCorma.ck 96 97 00 (A5 sized 1;5000 will ~o), With ?ne look fit) and fast-food vouchers (to TEAM John McCullough 94 95 02 route choice per leg. Having spent time make you fat). The format was four Alan Gartside is compiling a list of Sean McSweeney 90 91 93 03 those to have run for Ireland in the Vet- Maurin Morrish 90 95 with his Swedish 'club, Jarla, where he events in a league with the leading fin- Nael Morrish 90 obviously learned how it should. be ishers winning seeded places in the se- eran Home International series. The Tim Morrissey 97 compilation is from incomplete records, Jean Mullen 96 done, 'David planned fast but tricky ries final at Belfield, where howling Monica Nowlan 90 91 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 03 augmented by selector'S notes and TIO courses, that rewarde~ both. running gales strong enough 'to knock over some Clare Nuttall 91 93 94 95 96 97 99 00 02 03 speed and perfect Onenteenng tech- runners were, not enough to deter a reports, nether of which can be fully Senan O'Boyle 99 00 02 03 trusted due to' the incidence of late cry- Llarn O'Brien 03 nique. Things that are less. important ~or small but enthusiastic group offinalists. Aonghus O'Cleirigh 02 q3 most of us during normal foot-O, like Belfield was also where the first event offs after they have been written. Fur- Mary O'Cannell 02 thermore he doesn't have any list of the Kevin O'Dwyer 94 95 96 97 99 the ~ second you waste fumbling with in the series was held, so there were no Billy O'Neill 90 the punch at each control, amounts to excuses for mistakes. Runners :were 1998 (South Wales, TrinarCleary as Jean O'Neill' 9699 00 02 Manager) or 1992 (embarrassing, as that John O'Neill 90 91 the difference between glory andobseu- seeded in order such that the leading Marie O'SUllivan 91 9395 rity at a sprint-O event. Route ch~ice league scorer started last and tried to Was hosted @y LVO on Slieve Martin) Alan I?im 90 95 teams. The current list is; Sue Pim 91 93 94 could be as simple as left or right chase down the others. Winners were: Ger Power 99 00 02 around a building on Belfield campus, Course A Darren Burke of VeDO, Jim Barrett 95, Maxwell Reed go 91 93 94 95 97 or through or around a thicket in Marl~y M2i; Course B, Ruairi Short of CNOC, Brian Bell 98 Denis Reidy 96 00 Andrew Bonar-Law 95 96 lain Rochford 99 park. If you want to hone yo~r basic M16; Course C, Ruth Lynam ofCNOC; Donal Burke 91 Sean Rothery 96 distance, orientation, attack point, con- Course 0, Niamh Moran of 3ROC, Fred Calnan 90 91 93 94 Aine NI ShUilieabhan 02 trol description and exit technique, then WIO. Nigel'Campbell"Crawford $5 99 00 03 Ann Savage 97 99 00 0.3 Trina Cleary 90,91 9394 9596' 9800' 03 Alan Shaw 91 96 there is no better place than at a Sprint- Sean Cotter 90' 91 94 BillSimpson 93 96 97 99 00 02 03 16 The Irish Orienteer The irish Orienteer J 7 Maura Thomhill 90 vying for the top placing, which in the end Alison Tottenham 97 WOC team member Bill Edwards Maire Walsh 91 95 97 was shared by Ajax club mates Martin Flynn IRISH Jane Watt 93 94 95 and John Casey. Third place was (CorkO) managed a win in the short Faith White 93 94 99 00 shared by Paul Mahon (Setanta Orienteers) CHAMPIONSllPS race but lost out to the younger genera- Ernie Wilson 91 95 96 97 and Justin May, also 1st M40+ tion when Andrew Quin (3ROC) took (3ROC). Philip Brennan (Setania) was 2nd gold by a margin of 20 seconds at Inch. Alan would be grateful for help in filling the 2004 in the M40+ category. In the In the Women's Elite races, Andrew's gaps, either on a personal basis or by the women's, 1st was Nina Phillips (Setanta) The Irish Championships should be the clubmate, Una May, won the Classic memory of who your team-mates were. and 2nd Deirdre O'Neill (Fingal Orienteers), The purpose in compiling the list is to iden- The short course winners were Sean Hassett highlight of the orienteering year and race while Toni O'Donovan (CorkO) tify those folk who will be eligible to pur- and Colleen Robinson (both Setanta), Full with three days of outstanding orien- took the short distance title. At the chase the Vets jackets for which Alan has results are on the results page of www. teering, so it proved to be for Bishop- prizegiving there was a special award to arranged production. They have a fleece oricnteering.ie stown and Kerry Orienteers with their M60 Ted Feehan (BV:OC) who ran the lining and a shower proof outer skin - ideaJ Some further races over the summer are three events on sand dunes in Co. Kerry elite cours~ in 3 hours and 1I minutes, a for standing around draughty O-car parks. planned, with an Irish MTBO Championship on the May Bank Holiday weekend. very creditable performance. Ted bad An important point- they will be strictly race hopefully for September. Watch the run at Inch a number of times and felt cash with order; cost €33/STG£22. fixtures list for details or subscribe to the This year saw the introduction of a short M T B'O rn a iIi n g lis t: III t b 0- MTBOREPORT [email protected] distance race on the Saturday at Banna, Ireland's first ever league of mountain bike with the Individual at lncb on Sunday orienteering events took place around Meanwhile the Irish MTBO team continue and the relays at Castlegregory on Mon- Wicklow over four weekends in April & preparations for the 2004 World Champs day. Banna and Inch have been used May, organised by four orienteering near Melbourne in Australia in October. The before but still retain their challenge clubs. Over 60 competitors took part, most team is Jain Rochford, Eoin Rothery, Mark while the Maharees map was a mixture with little or no experience of Geary, Eunice Cinnamon, Nina Phillips. lain of very fast grassland and tricky sand this new sport. The first race was a 90 min- and Nina have been competing in European dunes, a perfect combination for a relay. u t e score cvent on Carrick MTBO for several years now and were Mountain, Glenealy. The followIng three both on the 2002 World MTBO Champs races were classic events - the team in France. Eoin and Mark both live The old order changeth, to some extent longer course covering approximately 20 in Australia and have been competing at anyway. Previous Irish Champion and km, [he short 10 km. These took place national level there so wi II have at Cronybyrnc and Clarabcg (both near quite a terrain advantage! Eunice is a rnern- Laragh) and Croghan Kinsella (near ber of the Irish Ski 0 team (many the challenge of the Elite would be Wooden bridge). The planning of each race international MTBO racers come from Ski 0 more appropriate than the M60 course. allowed for choosing between short backgrounds) and competes in MTBO but technical, or stoep, routes and longer, races in the UK. The MTBO World Champs easier routes. Route choice is website is at www.2004worldmtbo.org/ In Monday's Relays, Northwest contin- critical for success in MTBO and choices currentnews ued the habit of a lifetime, taking the were thoroughly discussed after aJI Men's (now the "Open") title for the the races! umpteenth time with Cork 0 taking the With over 60 competitors taking part in one Women's race. Setanta finished second or more races, and the majority in the Men's race after careless punch- on the long course, MTBO is starting to fi- ing led to the disqualification of both nally starting to take hold in Ireland. the Ajax and 3ROC teams. The closest ::i' team finish of the day was the 7 seconds There were no easy. wins? with most of our ¥;: ";~"", •.~"."., 2002 World Championships team in action ".""",".sw.",~ Women's Champion, Una-May separating third legs Ronan Cleary , Eoin Keith in action (3ROC) and Don ShOlt(CNOC) in the 18 The Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer J 9 end's orienteering in a magnificent set- Irish Championships 2004 ting. Individual The courses each day were as challeng- M21E (27) 13.500 km 29 C Relays ing as you might expect from sand dune 1 Quin, Andrew 3ROC 01:36:36 012- LVO J. Millar, A. McCar]n, M. teITain: a little too challenging in places 2 Edwards, Bill CorkO 01:36:56 McCann 3 O'Halioran, Colm LeeO 01:39:14 W12- BOC L. Power, S. Callanan, G. at Inch, where some taped sections on 4 Logue, James NWOC 01:40:02 Walsh the most junior courses would have 5 Dobbs, Neil Balise77 01:42:33 014- CNOC C.O'Boyle, K. O'soyle, C. been appropriate. M20 Foley-Fisher, Christian MNAV Short For anyone wanting to return to the M21L Foley-Fisher. Zollan MNAV W14· BOC C.Callanan, C. Flanagan, E. M35 Flynn Martin Ajax Simonin area, the Munster Championships are M40 Corbett Brian CorkO 016- BOC B. Ring, J. Power, N.Simonin expected to be run on an extension of W21E (11) 8.400 km 16 C W16- BOC R.O'Meara, A. Horgan, J. the Maharces map on the October bank 1 May Una 3ROC 01:12:12 Murphy holiday weekend. This part of the area 2 Pacheva Petranka BOC 01:15:16 018· BOC N.O'Donoghue, S.Carey, C. 3 O'Donovan, Toni CorkO 01:22:56 O'Brien is reportedly superior to the parts al- 4 Lynam Ruth CNOC 01:33:47 W18- BOC M. Callanan, A.McCarthy, D. ready used, so that's something to look 5 Creedon Ailbhe CorkO 01:33:49 Cronin forward to. Any suggestions as to how M45L May Justin 3ROC Premier NWOC J.Logue, I.Locklngton, S. to make it a worthwhile weekend (what M18 McCormack, Ted GEN Linton W21L Loughman, Eileen CNOC W Open Co~O T.O'Donovan, F.Pinker, A. event to run with the MOC as a two- Creedon over or around? M21S Lewis Roger SN day, for example) to Bishopstown OC, 2 Conlon Tom WEGO 040+ 3ROC J.McCullough, F. Martindale, R. please. M50 O'Brien Liam CorkO Cleary Open 40 class. W20 Browne Sarah ShUOC W40+ CorkO M.Curran, C.Heardman, E. The short race at Banna proved an ex W35 Morrish Eadaoin LeeO Deane cellent warm-up for Inch [he next d M55 Creedon Bemard CorkO 050+ LVO W.HolHnger,C. Majury, B. W40 Cleary Julie 3ROC Simpson though the features at Inch are M60 GartSide Alan LVO W50+ 3ROC M.Nowlan, A.niShUllleabhain, and perhaps less subtle, with large M45S Mulrooney, Jim Setanta G.Power areas a useful catching feature. The W18 Largey Ciara FerrnO 060+ 3ROC P. Flanagan, N.C-Crawford, T. McGrath of the Banna map was evident in places, W45 Savage Ann LVO M65 Amour Dick INVOC 01:00:28 where some revision to man-made fea- 2 Martindale, Frank 3ROC 01:31:52 Sprint results tures might have improved things a bit. W50 Finlay Teresa FermO M21 E 5.5km 125m24C This apart, the reservations expressed W21S0'ConnorMary CorkO 1 Edwards Bill CorkO 31 :46 2 Quln Andrew 3ROC 31 :47 by the organisers about the quality of W55 Nowlan Monica 3ROC M70 Rothery Sean 3ROC 3 Logue James NWOC 31:53 tbe maps were groundless, at least as far W60 Cleary Trina 3ROC W21E 3.9 km 125 m 17 C 1 O'Donovan ToniCorkO 30:05 as the runners were concerned. W70 White Faith Setanta 2 O'Boyle Nlamh CNOC 33:23 However, with every silver lining M16 Simonin Nicolas BOC 3 May Una 3ROC 34:54 comes a cloud. While tbe quality W16 Foley-Fisher, Erinna MNAV M21 1 Ebanks Mark OMEGA, 2 Conerney Derek M14 O'Boyle Cian CNOC WEGO. M35 1 Bell lain KNOBOC. 5 Brennan Philip Sean Cotter's maps was excellent, the W14 Callanan Cliona BOC Setanta. W21 O'Brien Fiona Ajax. W35 Young Ei- organisation of the relays suffered in the M12CorbeH CiI~ Co~O leen FIN, M18 McCormack Ted GEN. M20 Cormack W12 McCann Maebh LVO Barry DUO, M40 Weston Dave SET, W40 Cleary absence of any results until the delayed Julie 3ROC, W45 Fyffe Marella FermO M16 Short prlzegiving. Despite there being 17 M10 Fyffe Angus FermO Rualri CNOC, M45 Cox Andrew WalO M50 McCul- W10 Moran Niamh 3ROC lough John 3ROC & Majury Clive LVO. W18 Hussey teams in the event from SOC, there Rosalind FermO. W50 Power Ger 3ROC, W55 didn't seem to be a results team. Walsh Maire 3ROC. W60 Cleary Trina 3ROC. M14 The seniors classes had a superb week- Open Relay mass S(OI"I.· Gerard Butler, Niall O'Boyle Kevin CNOC. M60 White Harold 3ROC, Bourke & Fiach O 'Rourke lead the way IOC 2004 photos by Martin Flynn M65 Martindale Frank 3ROC, W14 canaoan CHona BOC. W16 Callanan Martha BOC. M12 Moran Colm 20 The Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 21 lost runners did not go to local events that What sex are you? enteers who run more than three times in Crunching the were held 011 days 'when there would have been a league event in previous years, so it As tbe information that was captured in pre- eacb year are non-club. However I person- Numbers is not necessarily correct to conclude that the vious years by clubs on control cards was ally do not think it is a healthy thing that a league change drove these people away. very poor, it is impossible to analyse the full quarter of the people who orienteer in an' analysis of the competitor profile by gender and age-group Leinster do not belong to a club; non-club The number of "ran-once-never-seen-again" for seasons other than 2003/2004. For exam- orienteers do not get involved in organising people has remained incredibly high pie, 17% of 2001/2002 runners are of un- events, so they should not benefit from our Leinster League throughout the three years. This implies to known gender, and a full one-third are of very 10Vi event entry fees and from league me that there is a large awareness and curi- unknown age, making the data useless. In participation. " ... for every female, orieriteer there are two osity in the general public about orienteer- 2003/2004 we became better at determining males ... " ing, but when they turn up to try it out they a person's sex, only failing to do so for eight As you can see from the chart which shows " ...ran-once-never-seen-again has remained are somehow disappointed with the experi- people, but we still failed to capture proper the number of competitors declaring for incredibly high ... " ence. Presumably some of these 'are serial age classinformation for 22% of people. who each club each year, big isn't necessarily ..... a healthy one quarter of our competitors one-timers, i.e. running once per year, but 1 ran. best when it comes 'to winning the inter-club are juniors .... " am unable to quantify this. 1t is important to league. Setanta & GEN, first and second in ..... big isn '( necessarily best when it comes note that this very high public awareness However using the information that we do the league, are not the biggest clubs. (the to winning the inter-club league ... " still exists in the near-total absence of na- have we can determine that a healthy one defence Forces are omitted as their variable tional publioity for the sport (nobody wants quarter of our competitors are juniors, which membership causes distortion in the graph). In the three years that ,1 have been compiling to be the IOA communicatiens officer). can't be a bad thing for the future of the 12% of the 2003/2004 orienteers were from the Leinster League tables a lot of inform- sport . For every female orienteer there are non-Leinster clubs, with Midland Navigators tion has, been accumulated - it is now time to The introduction of the inter-club league has two males, there are twice as many veteran \'U1d Lagan Valley featuring prominently. see if we can Jearn anything from the num- probably stimulated some casual orienteers men as women and for every junior female Welcome, and please come again. bers. Despite league format changes an~ to become more committed as there has been there is .a veteran female. Approximately Seasonal Varlatlcns occasional missing information, the data ill an increase in the percentage of "ran more four out of every ten orienteers are between Which league was more popular, the Au- the tables is of generally good quality, so than three times" oricnteers from 16% to 21 and 40 years of age and nearly one in tumn Series or the Spring Cup? This table hopefully the foJlowing analyses are rea- three arc over forty. 23%, a trend which is very heartening. Even N, ·c l u b Non- sonably reliable apart from the many mathe- R. u n n en member Club though this year there were four less league 2003/2004 Junior Scni6r Veteran Tolal (MWIt., M om b e r matical errors that 1have probably made. events than last year, our committed orien- ~~~~ottlK'A ("'W~O-) ~,~ Male 16% 28.5% 20.5% 65% 2001/2002 669 471 198 .",.,. teers ran more times (S24 as opposed' to 2002/2003 Female 10% 15% 10% 666 4S6 210 How enthusiastic are we? 820), which means that they are becoming. 35% -<.!. •• Total 26% 43.5% 30.5% 100% 2003/2004 SS6 442' I J4 Ih'ld The change in league format, from fifteen much more enthusiastic; this is probably a events to two-leagues of five and six events combination of the new shorter league for- each, was accompanied by a drop of 100 mat and club pressure to get out there more shows the total number of runs 01) each people attending overall. The majority of often. Clubbing course across the entire league: these are most likely to be one-time runners I00 less runners competed this year than did as they showed a corresponding drop of 122. last year, and 96 fewer non-club runners If you remove the approximately 40 one- However there is nothing to say that the IQO appeared in this year's results, so presuma- timers from the Army Cadets who went to bly these are the same people. t))e Autumn Series event in the Curragh, The recent non-club decline from 31.5% to then on average 153' people attended each 26% is healthy and hopefully will continue Autumn Series event and 119 attended each in future years as the inter-club league be- Spring Cup event, a dramatic difference. comes imbedded in Leinster Orienteering This cannot be explained by a proximity to culture. I believe that this 5,5% drop is Dublin factor as Autumn Series events were nearly totally attributable to the introduction held in Brockagh, , Glenda:lough, of the inter-club league which gave clubs a Curragh East and Donadea, most involving (23%) big inventive to hoover-up non-club com- about an hour's travel and only one of which petitors. Note tbat Jess than five of the Ori- is in County Dublin. With the exception of 22 The Irish Orienteer The irish Orienteer 23 Forget the past? lOA AGM REPORT year. The mmunum registration fee Finally, I would like to take this op- with 80 Number of Competitors by Club .200'r.!~2 will be €3 5, Leinster League portunity to highlight' our appalling A spectacular setting, overlooking the events €70, major events €IOO. There data-loss habit. Event results are usu- are economies of scale, though: if a ally published without course infor- strand at Inch after the Irish Champion- minion (length/ cl im bl controls ) in- ships, only attracted a smallish crowd club registers more than 10 events in a "11 eluded, we rarely 'note weather con- to the Annual General Meetingof the year, all events over J 0 will attract a ijJudhdno~a ".' ' , , , , , ditions and the historic fixtures list is Irish Orienteering Association on the registration fee of €20. This move is to V ~o ",0" <;P "off' o .J) nowhere to be found. How easily May Bank Holiday weekend. cover the high costs of insurance for could we answer a simple question The meeting dealt with all the usual orienteering (more than €12,OOO last such as "was 'there an event in Ra- things: officers' reports, finance, elec- year but expected to fall this year). Mulaghmeen, Spring Cup events were at ven's Rock in 2001 and if so how many peo- tions etc. There were a couple of un- There will be no increase in affiliation roughly the same distance from Dublin ple ran each course?". Of the sixteen event usual matters, though: the proposal was fees for clubs this year. (Mall Hill, , Paddock HIli, Oldboleys, results for 200112002, three have already There was little change in the execu- Clarabeg). r leave it up to you to speculate disappeared completely, six more are on the accepted that the lOA become a com- on why we get about four people at a Spring eGroup and will presumably drop-off at pany limited by guarantee, to protect tive committee: Chairman Dave Wes- Cup for every five we get at an Autumn se- some stage. The remaining eight results are the execntive in the event of a financial ton, Treasurer Jobn Casey, Fixtures ries. It is probably a combination of many still available on club websites. catastrophe such as a large insurance Secretary Fergal Buckley, Mapping factors such as an area's reputation; per- claim. Marcus Geoghegan, High Performance ceived travel distance; bow well known an I hope that you found this article useful and Another motion which was accepted Orienteering Brendan O'Brien, Juniors area is; it's associated other amenities (eg that the numbers did not make it too difficult was to abolish the current arrangement Mary Healy, Technical Trina Cleary. ); how we promote the event to follow. Of all these statistics, the most of event levies (10% payable on the Secretary, Public Relations and Devel- encouraging is the 25% of you who arc un- (family versus high-performance); buggy- opment are still vacant. friendliness; hassle factors such as bussing der nineteen; hopefully in future years you income from an event, not the profit) There will be a workshop on uie new and parking; seasonal meteorology etc etc. hot be joining the ran-once-never-seen-again and replace them with increased regis- club. tration fees, tooperate from later this lOA Strategic Plan at the Munster Championships in October. Yellow Orange Lt Green Green Btue Brown Total Events Autumn Series ,84 101 198 201 128 91 803 5 VETERAN HOME INTERNATIONAL 2004 - nish 'the Manager with results. Spring Cup 71 65 154 173 158 94 715 6 IRISH SELECTION Those not based In Ireland who would like to Total 155 166 352 374 286 185 1518 11 nd VHI 2004 is being hosted by 3ROC on 2 & be considered for selection should provide 3n:1October in Carlingfcrd. The Irish Team the Manager wit Ii results for those events, Manager will again be Alan Gartside, who will since VHI 2003, that they wish to have taken be gathering and collating information to as- into account as well as the basis of their eligi- SKI-O IN MAY-O? sist the selection process. The 'selectors will bility for selection. The present eligibility be appointed by NIOA. rules are:

Believe it or not, County Mayo is preparing a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. For Irish-based orienteers, selection will take - born in Ireland or Despite having only six days of snow a year, Claremorris is further n011hthan intc account performance In the Irish and - have at feast one parent born in Ireland or the last two Winter Olympic venues, Salt Lake City and Nagano, and the next Provincial Championships pills the Leinster - have established permanent' residency in Spring Cup event at Clarabeg on 25th April two, Turin and Calgary. If global warming turns' off the Gulf Stream, the result- Ireland for one year prior to the competi- (on a mins/km basis across the colour tion and ing climate cbange might make Mayo the venue of choice. courses). Individuals will be considered to be - have not represented another home coun- Will Rory Monish and Eunice Cinnamon stick at ski-O for the next 22 years, available in the class which they entered in try in an international event within the and will it be in the winter Olympics by then? the Spring 2004 series of selection events. three years precedihg the competition (the If you don't believe it, check out www.winterolympioszuze.com, Anyone running out of a class for which they length of this period is under discussion). wish to be considered must advise the Man- Alan's address is 22 Ormiston Drive, Belfast ager accordingly. Anyone wishing to have 8T4 3JS. His email address is alan. other performances considered should fur- [email protected].

24 The Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 25 October 2004 2-3 Carlingford, Co. Louth, Veteran Home International, 3ROC 8-10 Junior European Cup, Epping Forest, England. ORIENTEERING FIXTURES 2004 9 Northern Ireland Championships, Toliymore Forest, Co. Down, LVO 19-24 World Cup final, Dresden, Germany. June 2004 23 Binevenagh, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland Series 5, NWOC 15 Curragh ,Co. Kildare, CNOC Summer Series 5 31 Burren, Co. Fermanagh, 'Tough Guy' Series 1, FERMO 15 Tradon Wood, Carrigallne, Co. Cork, Inter-Firm League 6, CORKO 17 Moynass Mountain, Co. Cork, Bus. Houses Summer League 3, CGO November 2004 19 Slieve Croob, Co. Down, LVO Summer Series 4, LVO 6 Glenariff, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland Series 6, LVO 19-20 Setanta Rogaine, Co.Wicklow. 24 hour score event. 14 Lough Navar, Co. Fermanagh, 'Tough Guy' Series 2, FERMO 20 Lough Bradan, Co. Tyrone, FermO Summer Series 6, FERMO 14 BOF National Event, Flyingdales, Whitby, Yorkshire 22 Hollywood, Co. Wicklow, CNOC Summer Series 6, CNOC 27 Crossmurrin, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland Series 7, FERMO 22 Farran Forest Park, Co. Cork, Inter-Firm League 7 - Relays, CORKO 27 Northern Irish Night Champs, Ely Lodge, Co. Fermanagh, FERMO 24 Lyradane Wood, Co. Cork, Bus. Houses Summer League 4, CGO 22-26 FISU World University O-Champs, Pilsen, Czech Republic 29 Glenbower Wood, Co. Cork, Inter-Firm League 8, CORKO MOUNTAIN RUNNING FIXTURES 2004 July 2004 «-. 1 Warrenscourt Wood, Co. Cork, Bus. Houses Summer League 5, BOC 1M RA 3-10 World Masters O-Champs, Asiago, Italy 4-11 Junior World O-Champs, Gdansk, Poland Date Time Venue Climb Distance 4 Necarne, Co. Fermanagh, FermO Summer Series 7, FERMO 16th Jun 7:30 PM Howth, Co. Dublin 360m 8.5 km 6 Warrenscourt Wood, Co. Cork, Inter-Firm League 9, CORKO 20th Jun 12:00 PM Pier Gates, Co. Wicklow 400m 14 km 8 Farran Forest Park, Co. Cork, Bus. Houses Summer League 6, BOC 23rd Jun 8:15 PM Brockagh, Co. Wicklow 400m 8km 10-17 World Cup 1 & European Championships, Roskilde, Denmark. 30th Jun 7:30 PM ,Co. WickJow 457m 8km 13 Garretstown Wood, Co. Cork, Inter-Firm League 10, CORKO 3rd Jul 2:30 PM ,Co. Mayo 762m 7.7 km 15 Inniscarra Woods, Canon's Cross, Co. Cork, BH Summer League 7, BOC 4th Jul 12:00 PM Nephin, Co. Mayo 736m 5km 19-25 Swedish 5-Day, Gothenburg 7th Jul 7:30 PM Sorrel Hill, Co. Wicklow 412m 10 km 20 Curragh Wood, Co. Cork, Inter-Firm League 11, CORKO 11th Jul 12:00 PM Croaghan Moira, Co. Wicklow 610m 16.6 km 22 Glenbower Wood, Co. Cork, Bus. Houses Summer League 8, BOC 11th Jul 1:00 PM Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary 591m 8km 27 Baliincollig West, Co. Cork, Inter-Firm League 12, CORKO 14th Jul 7:30 PM Bailinastoe, Co. Wicklow 305m 12 km 29 Bishopstown Parklands North, Co. Cork, BH Summer League 9, BOC 21st Jul 7:30 PM Sugarloaf BBQ, Co. Wicklow 427m 5.6 km 28th Jul 7:30 PM , Co. Wicklow 427m 10 km August 2004 1st Aug 1:00 PM Mangerton, Co.Kerry 10 km 7 Spring Grove, Co. Fermanagh, FermO Summer Series 8, FERMO 4th Aug 7:30 PM Earl's Drive, Co. Wicklow 120m 7.9 km 15-21 Croeso 2004 - Welsh 6 Days, Brecon Beacons, Powys 8th Aug 12:00 PM Curtlestown, Co. Wicklow 17 km 22 Killeter, Co. Tyrone, FermO Summer Series 9 11th Aug 7:30 PM , Co. Dublin 250m 8 km 15th Aug 12:00 PM Galtees, Co. Tipperary 1340m 12.6 km September 2004 18th Aug 7:30 PM Butter Mountain, Co. Dublin 200m 8km 4 Castle Archdale, Co. Fermanagh, FermO Summer Series 10 5th Sep 12:00 AM World Trophy Race 4-5 Junior Home International, NW England 5th Sep 12:00 PM St Kevin's Way 20 km 11 Slieve Gullion, Co. Armagh, LVO Summer Series 5 26th Sep 12:00 PM Muliaghcleevaun, Co. Wicklow 570m 11 km 11-19 World O-Champs & World Cup 2, Vasteras, Sweden 13th Nov 12:00 PM Sugar Bowl 650m 8km 19 Necarne, Co. Fermanagh, FermO Summer Series 11 27th Dec 12:00 PM Christmas Flash 191m 2.4km 25 Slieve Martin, Co. Down, LVO Summer Series 6 Full details on www.imra.ie 26 Florencecourt, Co. Fermanagh, FermO Summer Series 12

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