The Irish Ladies Team at the last World Orienteering Championships, resplendent in their Lowe Alpine waterproof gear. che IRISh ORlenceeR No. 70 September - October 1994 IR£I.00 (i1Qw.§ .... ~,. .J Did you know that there's a Lowe factory shop at the Srah Industrial Estate in Tullamore, Co. Offaly? Open Monday to Saturday, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm, closed for lunch. It's worth a visit if you're in the area. 44 The Irish Orienteer '_.'-' ,- - _ fIl) ~~ 1,..~,:. ,,,;~~ ~T- THE IRISH ORIENTEERUSEFUL ADDRESS LIST AJAX ORIENTEERS Tara Horan 17 Mount Pleasant Place, Ranelagh, Dublin 6. Tile Iris" Orienteer is available The Irish Orienteer ATHLONE RTC ORIENTEERS Barbara Hu~ter, P.E. Dept., ATC, Dublin Road, Athlone, Co. through all Irish orienteering clubs. All material concerning orieateer- Westmeath No. 70 September - October 1994 ISSN 0790-1194 BLACKWATERVALLEYOC Ellen Feehan, Scarteen Lower, Newmarket, Co. Cork. iog will be gratefully received by CORK ORIENTEERS Jim 0 Donovan, Castletreasure, Carr s Hill, Douglas, Cork. (021- the Editor, Jobo McCullough, 9 361544) . Arrao Road, Drumcondra, Dublin To touch on a subject which has been mentioned here before, the CURRAGH-NAASORIENTEERS Eileen Loughman, 169 Monread Heights, Naas, Co. Kildare (045- 9. development of orienteering is something which cannot be done by 79780) the International Orienteering Federation, or the 45 National O-As- DUBLIN UNIVERSITY 0 Mary Birken, Box 67, Regent House, TCD, Dublin 2. Subscriptions: still only £6.50 per sociations around the world. It can only be done effectively by you. EASTERN COMMAND OC John de Lacy, 9 Heather Grove, Marlay Wood, Dublin 16. annum (six issues). You are the orienteers. The aims of the IOF include finding ways to FERMANAGH ORIENTEERS Gerry Kingston, Cranagh ,Croaghrim, Florencecourt, Co. make event organisation less complex and costly: orienteers want to Fermanagh BT921 BJ. Next TlO Deadline is FINGALORIENTEERS run, not to organise. It's difficult not to fail in some respect: Frank Flood, 1 Brookdale Green, River Valley, Swords, Co. Dublin October 20th (01-8408362) orienteers have been described as the train spoUers of sport, so FORMERUCCO Tony Joyce, Lindisfame, Bishopstown, Cork (021-541246). obsessed with the minute details of map symbols, control descrip- Cover: Sbamrock O·Ringen Elite GALWAY RTC ORIENTEERS Deirdre Ayan, P .E. Dept, RTC, Dublin Road, Galway (091- tion symbols and so on, that they lose sight of the objective; the 753829) winnersColmO'HaUoran anf'Yveue reason we are drawn to orienteering is because il is an enjoyable, GARDAORIENTEERS Con Lynch, Garda College, Templemore, Co. Tipperary Hague withevent co-crdi nator, Ber- GREAT EASTERN NAVIGATORS Nora Lalor, 6 ~nocksinna Grove, Foxrock, Dublin 18 (01-2893497) nard Creedon. (JMcC) satisfying activity. It's a sport. KERRY ORIENTEERS Rory Costello, 14 Manor Court, Manor Village, Tralee, Co. Kerry. What would your life be like without orienteering? Think of all (066-25532) CONTENTS the free time you'd have, all the money you'd save, all the interesting LAGAN VALLEY ORIENTEERS Alen Gartside, 22 Ormiston Drive, Belfast, BH 3JS (08-0232- News pages 4 things you could do. On the other hand, what about aLI the unusual 655065). Shamrock94 10 places you visitorienteering, the friends you make, the satisfaction LEE ORIENTEERS Clare Nuttall, 4 Upr. Panorama Tce., Sunday s Well, Cork (021- Irish Two-Day 94 14 300373) 20 Years a-growl ng 26 you get from fresh air, exercise and the unique challenge of orien- LEINSTER SCHOOLS OA Alan Cox, SI. Andrew s College, Booterstown, Co. Dublin. Shamrockrnap 22 teering?It'smore than a sport: as theT-shirts say, it's a way of Living. PHOENIX NAVIGATORS Noel Donagh, Custume Barracks, Athlone, Co. Westmeath. Junior News 24 Every hill you see becomes a collection of COil lours and rocks, every NORTH WEST OC Maureen Loughery, 39 Moyola Ave., Castle Dawson BT45 8BA, JuniorWorld Champs 25 forest is classed as white or green, land-forms become control sites. Co. Derry (08-0648-68602). Regional News 27 And who'd have it any other way? But there must be lots of prople SET ANTA ORIENTEERS Jocelyn Cathalin, 36 Taney Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14 (01- German 5-0ay 30 out there who are orienteers but who don't realise it, who have a 2985799) Improveyourorientooring 31 SOUTHERN ORIENTEERS Kevin 0 Dwyer, 2 Wellington Villas, Military Hill, Cork (021. Results 33 vocation but have never had the opportunity to find out. It's our re- 506740) Fixtures 42 sponsibility as the present generation of orienteers to pass on the THOMOND ORIENTEERS Alan Shaw, Innismore, 40 College Park, Corbally, Limerick (061. torch to the next generation. We have to give other people the 343959) Join the team! There's no opportunity to discover orienteering for themselves. Maybe they THREE ROCK OC Vera Murtagh, 19 The Cloisters, Terenure, Dublin 6w (01· pay, the hours are awful but won't take the opportunity, but we have to make sure the chance is 908237). you too can write ror Tile there. UCC ORIENTEERS Niamh 0 Donovan, PE OHice, UCC, College Road, Cork. lrisl: Orienteer .•• UCD ORIENTEERS Paul van Kampen, Box55, Library Building .. Belfield, Dublin 4. Results and articles can now be We've had a good summer's orienteering: the Irish Two-Day, the UCG ORIENTEERS Alan Brett, c/o Porter s Desk, Concourse, University College, accepted on 3-112 inch floppy Shamrock O-Ringen, the Veteran World Cup. There's an unprece- Galway. disks from PC's and Mac's. dented level of interest among the Senior squad in the World Cup WATERFORD ORIENTEERS Veronica Purcell, Lodge s Lane, Newtown Hill, Tram ore, Co. Wa- terford. Prlntod by DellfOn Print. Dundrurn. Dublin events. and the World Championships in Germany are just around IRISH O-ASSOCIATION Finola 0 Donoghue, House of Sport, Longmile Road, Dublin 12. 14 (01·2088944). the comer. AU these things give us the opportunity to promote (01·456909924·hours) orienteering, each in our own small way. The World Champion- I thought the increase from IRISH O-STUDENTS ASSOC. Deirdre Ryan, St. Mary's, Ballinfoyle, Galway. ships are the tipofthetceberg, buuhcy are coming to Britain in 1999 NORTHERN IRELAND OA Kathryn Millinson, 311 Ballynahinch Road, Hillsborough, Co. £ I0 to £20 might 50 we can usc the even t as a goal both for the team and for promotin g Down BT 26 6BT. encourage more of you to the sport as a whole. It's several years now since the lOA stood back BRITISH O-FEDERATION Aiversdale, Dale Aoad North, Darley Dale, Matlock, Derbyshire send in photos for the and looked at where it's going: perhaps we should now be focusing DE4 2HX (0044-629· 734042, FAX 0044·629-733769r cover, but it hasn't. So INTERNA nONAL O·FEDERA no N...ennart Levin, Box 76, S-191 21 Sollentuna, Sweden (00.46.8- on what we want orienteering to be in the next century. The from the next issue, it'll be 353455, FAX 00-46·8357168) development of moun lain bike orienteering is taking off, trail £10 again, unless you can TIGLIN ADVENTURE CENTRE Deputy Director: Maeve McPherson. Tiglin, Ashford, Co. Wicklow orienteering for the wheelchair bound and short distance orientcer- (0404-40169). persuade me I'm wrong. ing are developing disciplines. Let's go for it. OK? 2 111(:Irish Orienlcer The Irish Orienleer 3 FERMANAGHDOMINATE VWC (1968, 70 and 72) and was one of the course plan- The French O-Federation will ron me first admitted as an Associate member, bringing the Maxwell Reed and Teresa Finlay were the ners at this year's Veteran World Cupin Scotland. international eventin Mountain BikeOrienteer- numberoflOFmembers t045. There are now four only two Irish orienteers to qualify for the A finals Her other talents include the ability to speak ing at Frejus on the French Riviera in November, associate members: Brazil, Cuba, Macedonia and at the Veteran World Cup in Scotland at the Swedish, French. German, Russian, Arabic and with Indi vidual and Relay events run under rules Malaysia. beginning of August The Fermanagh pair were English, although her Arabic is a bit rusty. With similar to Ski-O events. Mountain biking is be- her husband, Robin, she is well known in orien- coming one of me fastest growing sports world- among the disappointingly small Irish contingent Future international events to note are 1995 teering mapping circles as a director of Harvey wide and will feature in the 1996 Olympics. In to travel to the event, the world's most prestigious World Championships in Germany on August 12- Map Services Ltd. Sweden MBO is laking off too. with a five race event for the over 35' s. 20, 1996 10F Congress in Israel. 1996 Junior series on weekday evenings in Ostergotland this Over 3000 runners took part, including 600 Unfortunately a persistent back problem has woe in Ski-O in Slovakia, 1997 woe at Grim- summer. from Norway , but the Scandinavians totally domi- restricted her activity in recent years. stad in southern Norway on August 9-16, 1998 nated the results, particularly the Finns. Only The French O-Federation wants to establish World Junior Championships in France, 1998 about 18Irish orienteers took part, a pity when you the fact that MDO is a valid form of orienteering. World Ski-O Champs in Austria, 1999 WOC in consider that the event will probably never be as NEW woe RULES like Ski-O or foot orienteering lest it get taken over Britain. Australia and Finland will be bidding for near again. The terrain was reportedly superb and A revision of the rules for the World Champi- by the cycling fraternity and turned into aform of the 2001 World Championships.