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FINGAL ORIENTEERS Frank Flood, t Brookdale Green, River Valley, Swords, Co. Dublin (01-8408362)

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Deirdre Ryan, P.E. Dept, RTC, Dublin Road, Galway (091-753829)

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Nora Lalor, 6 Knockslnna Grovo, Fo"rook. Dublin 18 (01-2893497)

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Alison To"enham, 51. Hclie(s, Sorrento Rd., Dali<ey, Co. DubRn.

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Paul van Kampen, Box 55, Library Building. UCD, BeHleld, Dublin 4.

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The IrisbOrienteer is availablethrough nlIlrisb orienteeringclubs. AU material concerningorienteering will be gratefullyreceived by the editor, JohnMcCullough,9 Arran Road,

Dublin9.

Next TID deadline isMay21sl.

Cover. Jane Watt (GEN),planner of the recent Inter-

provincial at Glencree, finishesat Cronybyme (Gavan Doherty).

CONTENTSNews 4IOC95 Preview 12WorldChumps 14Selection News 15Mountainl3ikc -0 16ProblemPage 17AOCRTD 18The Black Lakes 19MountainRunning 20Results 21Fixtures 30

Reports wanted for 110 74:JK95. 10C 95, British Champs,LeinsterChamps 95. Interpro 95

etc. etc. etcl

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14 (01-2988944).

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Annualsubscription: IR£7.50(six issues).

There are great projects in the offing. The application by Ireland to hosta World Cup race is the nearest we will get to the world Elite: we'renever realistically going to have a World Championships in Ireland.Cork Orienteers, who arc to spearhead the project for 1998, are due allour support and best wishes for their task, one which will involve us allfor the event will truly be a national commitment. This event, and theWorld Championships in Scotland in 1999, will again give us aspringboard to re-launch orienteering. a chance which we must take.

The Irish OrienteerNo. 73 Aprll- May 1995 ISSN 0790-1194

For the past few years the IDA's support among orienrccrs has beendwindling, if attendances atAGM' s are any indication (fifteen this yew',six of whom were on the executive). We have just celebrated the first25 years of the IDA. The enthusiasm of the founding fathers of Irishorienteering must be nil example to us nil. You mightthink"whatdo weneed the IDA for?Orientcering isn' t aboutcornmittces, it's about beingout in the forests and mountains". But how far would we have gotwithout common standards of mapping. course length and difficulty.co-ordination of fixtures. insurance cover. financial planning, interna-tional contacts. team selection and funding, all the things that makeorienteering a successful and an international sport? And who do youthink arranges all this? The Irish Orienteering Association does. Whohelps fund the AFAS office and the phone line service at the House ofSport? Who publishes publicity and information brochures? Whosubmits grant applications to the Governmenton your behalf?The IrishOrienteering Association does. They do long hours of great work for noreward. They deserve our active support.

Another group deserving our support is the World Championshipsteam, to be selected at the beginning of June for August's WorldChampionships in Germany. The provinces were asked to run events tohelp fund the team: please support these too. The National teams getvery little financial support from anyone and they have to put in a lot oftraining for what is largely an invisible sport. A display at the IDA AGMof 25 years of O-history brought to mind how much coverage in themedia orienteering used to get about tell or fifteen yew's ago. Not a lot,in comparison with spectator sports, but enough to ensure a steadytrickle of enquiries and newcomers. Now? Now we have nothing. Aninvisible sport. We have the AFAS connection in the House of Sport butwe need a press officer again. Surely there must be someone of vision.flair and ability out there? Please?

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SILVA SPONSOR IRISH TEAMSilva, the compass and orienteering equipmentmanufacturers, are to sponsor the Irish team for the1995 World Championships. The package in theform of equipment forthe team offivemen and fivewomen, plus officials, will be worth between £2000and £3000 to the team, it is estimated. Inaddition,squad members will be able to purchase Silvaequipment at greatly reduced prices. The equip-ment for the team will include O-suits, wind suits,gaiters, compasses, T-shirts, rucksacks and hats.Silva also make shoes and other equipment.

This was announced by FlOA Secretary FrankCunnane at the lOA AGM on April 1st, but it's nojoke.

lOA AT 25The 25th Anniversary of the Irish OrienteeringAssociation was celebrated with amea1 and a partyon Saturday, April l st 1995 at the SummerhillHotel, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. This was the dayof the inaugural Irish Short-O Championships atnearby Raven's Rock and the day before the Inter-provincial Champs at equally nearby Glencree. Asan added bonus the lOA AOM took place at 6 pm,before the meal.

A great night out for a tenner or less, with personalreminiscences from some of the first orienteers:Mike Lunt, Sean Rothery and Joss Lynam. Theassembly was e.lso graced by the presence of NiallRice, Colin Dunlop, Paddy O'leary and DianaLarge, among other luminaries.

ARE YOU? CAN YOU? WILL YOU?Are you visually aware? Capable of turning asow's ear into a silk purse? Possessed of consider-able imagination and graphic ability? A non-smokerwith a sense br humour? In possession of or withaccess to computer equipment with DTP software?(and preferably a scanner?) Prepared to spendabout one evening a month working on TIO fornothing? If so, read on ...As Editor I am finding it increasingly difficult tofind the time to do all the work on 110 myself.While I am happy to write, type and collate infor-mation I am aware that TIO is visually unappealing

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but, given the amount 0\ ...Je, the level of graphicability and the low budget available I am unable todo much about it.

If you can take the text and play with it to make itmore interesting looking, more prefessional, moreeasily assimilated, then please call me: JohnMcCullough (01-8378819). Thanks!

lOA AGM POSTPONEDAs you will have realised by now, the lOA AOMwas postponed as a result of tbe postponement ofthe Connacht Cbampionships from the end ofFebruary.

Incidentally, the lOA Secretary is Ken Griffin, 12Island Way, Musketry Estate, Ballincollig, Co.Cork (021-870338 (h); 021-312833 (w), fax 021-312970 (w».

Faith Wbite was re-elected Chairperson (& Inter-national Officer), Brian Hollinshead (Treasurer(temporarily», Bernard Creedon (Juniors andTechnical), Frank Cunnane (Fixtures), Ken Griffin(Hon. Secretary), John Walshe (Mapping, in ab-sentia), Frank Ryan (Coaching, in absentia). Thepositions of PRO and Environmental Officer wereleft vacant with Munster and Leinster to be invitedto submit nominees. One cbange is that the threeregions can now be represented by two peopleeach, the chairperson and one other, to give morepeople a say in the lOA and spread the workloadmore.

BOCBACKYou maye have been aware of a dispute betweenBishopstown Orienteering Club in Cork and oth-ers, including Cork Orienteers and the MunsterOA, centring on the question of access to mappedareas and copyright of maps. This has now beenresolved and Bishopstown are back. The club.along with Blackwater Valley OC, are to run a 3-Day event at Easter in the Ballyhoura Mountainson the Cork/Limerick border. Entry forms havebeen sent to clubs. Unfortunately the late appear-ance of this issue of 110 means that many orien-teers will not be getting adequate notice of theevent

The events are to be at Kiffinnane (Days 1& 3) andGlenanaar (of Canon Sheehan fame). Accommo-dation is available at Kilfinnane Education Centreor in B & B's in the area. Contact Geraldine atBallyhoura Country Holidays, Kilfinnane, Co.Limerick (063-91300 (fax 063-91330). There arealready plans for another 3-Day at Kilfinnane atEaster 1996 (April 6-8).

SCOTI'ISH CHAMPSThe Scottish Championships arc as usual on thelast weekend of May. This year the competitionsare in Perthshire, near Kinloch Rannoch, and theyincorporate National Event 4 on Saturday, May27th. On the Sunday the Relay Championships areat the same venue and on the Monday (a bankholiday in Scotland) there's acolour coded event atMuirward Wood.

Entries on standard entry form with two SAE's to:

Scottish Championships, c/o Perth Bookshop, 3aAbbot St, Perth PH2 OEB, Scotland. Fees: (21+)S1'O£8, (19- )STG£3.50. (phone 0044-738-633970(day), 0044-738-828219 (evenings).

Entries close 28th April (late entries to 20th Mayadd £2/1)

Relays can only be entered through your club.(Enquiries to John Barrow 0044-31-440-2136).

Meanwhile at the Scottish Six Day the ScottishJunior Squad is organising their first JuniorClinic.Every evening planners, mappers and course win-ners will come alomg to explain what they did. Thesessions will auractjunior oricntccrs from all overthe world to share their experiences. The organ-isers reckon that this is the best collection of areasfor any 6-Day in the almost 20 years the event hasbeen going. Theeventccntre and camp site are nextdoor and all the areas ru-e within cycling distance.Cheap entries are still available up to April 30th.Contact your club or Strathspey '95,40 OrrnidaleTce., Edinburgh EH12 6EF, Scotland.

AFASCONFERENCEThe Annual Conference and AGM of the Associa-tion for Adventure Sports was at Tiglin on Satur-day March 11th. The theme of the conference was"Bringing Adventure Sports to Urban Areas", anaim to which orienteering is particularly well suited.The speakers included Or. Anton Trant of theCDVEC Curriculum Development Unit, JohnKilcommins of the Probation and Welfare serviceand Dave Ruse, described as an inspirational writerand youth leader from London. The AFAS AGMfollowed theConference and Setanta' sBrian Powerwas elected to the AFAS Board.

OSMAPSTIle publication of the new 1:50000 OrdnanceSurvey maps continues this year with sheets 22 and31 (Mayo) already available, 23, 24 (Mayo), 83,84,85 (Cork-Kerry) and 66 (Tipperary) expectedshortly. Later this year we are promised 44, 25(South Connemara), 50 (Dublin), 62 Soutb Wick-low, 67 (Slievenamon &Kilkenny), 74 (Gal tees &Knockmealdowns) and 77 (Wexford). There isnow a new sheet 56 (Wicklow) also. (from IrishMountain Log).

1995CHALLENGERS TROPHYThe ESB are already girding their loins (shouldthat be 'gridding their lines'?) for this year's Chal-lenger Trophy, with several staff members startingto take orienteering more seriously. Orienteering isan important part of the competition, with naviga-tion playing a vital role in several of the exercises.

The event, in which over 1OOcompanies, large andsmall, take part as teams in physical and mentalproblem solving exercises, will be from July 3rd to6tb based atWellington College, near Brackncll inBerkshire. Last year the event also raised over£100,000 for the Spastics' Society. For detailscontact the Mitel Telecom Challengers Tropby at0044-41-221-7300, fax 0044-41-221-7400).

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1995CAPRICORNThe 16th Capricorn two-day mountain orienteer-ing competition will be on June 24-25 in the OchilHills in south east Scotland, between Perth andStirling. The format, as in previous years. is for amountain marathon type course over two days butwith a central overnight camp. which means thatyou don't have to carry all your gear with you.Course lengths range from the 50 km Elite to the 24km D class, via A (40 km), B (35 km) and C (30km). There's 'also a pairs class (20 km) aimedmostly at juniors and a score class (4 hours + 3hours), new for this year. Entries close June 1st.Entry fees are STO£12 (£9 for under 19's); £9/6each for pairs. Entries are limited to 160 per classand 100 pairs. Contact: Capricorn '95. clo P. & 1.Mickelborough, 75 Belgrave Rd., Darwen, Lanesnas 2SF, England.

IOFCLINICAn IOF Controllers' Clinic is being run in Britainthe weekend after Easter. The clinic is aimed atcontrollers and other officials likely to be involvedin the series ofW orld Cup races planned for Bri lainand Ireland in 1998. Most of Britain's nine li-censed 10F Controllers will attend, as well as anyhoping to be licensed over the next few years. TrinaCleary (3ROq is likely to be the only Irish repre-sentative.

The topics to be covered include the new IOFRules, 0 as a spectacle, electronic punching, thejury and the specific problems of controlling spe-cial events like relays, short distance races andmass starts.

The clinic, at Matlock in Derbyshire from April 21-23. will be led by Australia's Barry McCrae,Norway's Geir Tveite and Tony Thornley (GB).

There will also be an 10F Council meeting inLondon beforehand and an IOFTechnical SteeringGroup meeting afterwards.

STREET·O IN AUSTRALIAThe controls are metal plates with chains andpadlocks which can be attached to power poles.street lights, trees etc. They still get stolen occa-

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sionally. (One Sydney t Jused to chalk letters onpower poles, but stopped doing so after they foundout that a 'C' chalked on a pole stood for 'Con-demned' and was the signal for the local electricityauthority to demolish the pole and replace it, caus-ing the wasting of thousands of dollars of publicmoney).

ODDS and ENDS and ODDSSince the production of the lOA's standard entryform last year, is there a single event which hasused it? ... High quality pictorial control descrip-tions: a new PCprogram called "Magellan" will dothemforyou. Details from Karen &Dan Parker, 23Heatherfield Court, W ilmslow, Cheshire, SK92QE,England. The cost is ST0£20 .... Finland' snumberone orienteer, Mika Kuisma, ranked third in the1994 World Cup and 6th in the Skogssport 1994World List, was tragically killed in a road accidenton January 11th when a lorry fell on top of the carin which he was travelling. 27 year old Mika wasmarried last summer and his wife is expecting ababy in April .... The Lakeland 5-Days, run for thefirst time last year. is expected to become a regularfeature of the British fixture list The next event isplanned for the first week of August. 1998 and it ishoped to run the event every four years after thal. ..Sits Vacs: Two positions on the lOA Executivewere not filled last year - Environment Officer andPublic Relations Officer. Any takers this year? ...There's a proposal to run a multi-day event in lateAugust 1996 on the maps used for the WorldChamps in 1993 in the USA and four other maps.plus events in Ontario the previous week. Startsaving now (maybe the Bank of Ireland or Hooverwill have another cheap airfares deal?) ... AJAXsecretary. Tara Horan. features in full colour (andin full flight) on the entry form for the 5 Jours deFrance (July 9-15). The events are based atHautev-ille, not too far from Lyon, in the area between theRhone and Switzerland ... Mapping the future: aninteresting article on the current technology andmapping plans of theOrdnance Survey is one of thefeatures in the MarchlApril Walking Worldirelandmagazine, an excellent production from the IrishRunner stable which has left Irish Runner strug-gling to keep up in terms of quality of presentation

'" WWW: If you have access on your computer tothe World Wide Web, there's an impressive rangeof information available on Irish orienteering,courtesy of expatriate Dubliner Martin Flynn cur-rently of CorkO. Martin has information on fix-tures, how to get to the competition areas, sub-scribe to no. look at Irish maps on screen, getinformation on clubs etc. Well done. Martin!(Martin's e-mail address isMartin.Flynn@login.ieunetie) .,. An idea for ascore event: don't have a set time but deduct, say,one point for every minute a competitor takes onthe course ...

GPS IN FINLANDAn Osmap was produced in Finland for an eventlast September with the survey done using a GPS(Global Positioning System), the first time this hasbeen done. The accuracy of the survey was to about2 metres for point features: Just stand at the feature,press the key for about 15 seconds, and yourposi tion and the type offeature (boulder. knoll, etc)is stored in the GPS unit with precise co-ordinatesrelated to satellites.

The data were input into OCAD and the mapsprinted electronically, one by one. One competitorran with a small GPS receiver on his head, takingmeasurements of position every second. and hisroute could be reconstructed very precisely after-wards.

This kind of technology, together with electronicpunching (already in use, and to be used at WOC95) may well be in common use by 1998 when wehope a World Cup event will come to Ireland.

SHAMROCK O·RINGENThe seventh Shamrock O-Ringen from June 23-25will incorporate some of the most complex terrainused to date for the event. The three competitionsare at Freaghanagh and at Coolcurtoga, both nearLooBridge and Ballingeary. Entries should be sentto Bernard and Margaret Creedon, Mount Pros-pect, Douglas, Co. Cork. Entry fees up to May Istare £6/4.50/3/15 per day for adult/student/juniorlfamily. After May 1st the rates are £816/4120 per

day. Add £2 per entry form for postage etc. Fulldetails are on the entry form enclosed with thisissue.If you haven't been there, now is your chance todiscover the event for yourselves.

CONNACHT CHAMPS POSTPONEDThe 1995 Connacht Championships have beenpostponed from February 25/26 to the June BankHoliday weekend at ManorhamHton. The eventswill be an Individual race on the Sunday and theRelays on the Monday since there's a NorthernIreland Series competition run by FermanaghOrienteers at Florencecourt, only about 18 milesaway, on the Saturday. Why not make a weekendof it? Accommodation details are on the entryform.The Senior Selectors have extended the deadlinefor World Championship contenders to include theConnacht Championships and it is expected thatselection for the World Championships will takeplace that weekend.

OPERATION DESERT STORM'For theGulfW ar, Operations placed 150mappingworkstations at various sites on duty seven days aweek, 24 hours a day, from mid-November 1990 toFebruary 1991. Working from satellite imagery,military needs were translated into maps produc-ing image maps from Landsat data.

During Operation Desert Storm. the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense requested more that 10,000 newor updated hardcopy and digital products for mis-sion planning, mission rehearsal, and land, sea andair operations. Covering a theater of operations onemillion square miles in size, 100 million mapsheets were printed in six months.' - IntergraphComputer magazine

If we only had the same resources we could pro-duce 10,000 Orienteering maps in 6 months!

(Brian Teahan)

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ORIENTEERING ON ATn'SThe first International Championship for Moun-tain Bike Orienteering was in the south of Franceon November II-13th last. Six countries sent teamsto the events, individual races on the Saturday anda relay on the Sunday. AI: 20,000 scale map wasused with paths overprinted in green to indicaterideability, in the same way as Ski-O tracks areshown. The terrain was wooded, undulating butvery wet, with rivers thigh deep in places. Therewere courses available for non-international com-petitors also, making it a family event. A Britishteam took part: the top man was Killian Lomas(14th) and Ailsa Mayes was 3rd woman.Meanwhile in Britain the Trailquest League, aseries of mountain bike score events, continues.3ROC/MEROC's Justin May finished top of theMen's' Solo class, winning six out of six races.Justin has an article on MB-O in this issue.

WALK ON THE WILD SIDEFor European Nature Conservation Year there's aseminar at the Royal Hospital. Kilmainham, inDublin on Friday 21st April. called 'Walk on thewild side". The seminar deals with waymarkedways and nature conservation and will be chairedby broadcaster Dick Warner (who did an excellentradio programme from an orienteering event atTrooperstown one time. complete with pantingorienteers). The seminar will be addressed by JossLynam (on developing a new waymarked way),Pat McCusker( on nature conservation), Ross Millar(0 path erosion) and Sean Rothery (on walking theGR5 from the North Sea to the Mediterranean - asfeatured in 110 71). In the afternoon there wiU befour workshops dealing with the first three topicsand also with insurance problems.

The cost of the seminar is£20, including lunch. andbookings should be made to Donncha S. ODu-laing,OPW,51 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 (01-6613111, fax 01-6621767). Closing date April14th.

THOSE WATCHESThe postman in Walla Walla has been plaguedbringing letters from Ireland looking for thoseCasio 30-split watches. The deal has changed

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(_)somewhat though: now it's $30 for each watch plusshipping at $2.50 per watch ($6.00 for three ormore): that works out at about £20 per watch.Available in black or high visibility pink from KireTime. P.O, Box 2428, Walla Walla, WA 99362,USA (fax 00-1-509-529-0804).

LEINSTER SCOUT-OA league for scout troops in south Co. Dublin is tobe run in tbe autumn using a series of introductorylevel events at venues like Phoenix Park, KillineyHill and Hellfire Wood. The league. confined totroops in the St. Oliver Plunkett district, is beingco-ordinated by lOA Treasurer Brian Hollinsheadand will cater for teams of up to six com peri tors pertroop.

IOF TALKS TO OLYMPICSThere is a major drive on by the InternationalOrienteering Federation to have Ski-orienteeringincluded in the winter Olympics programme. Twomembers of'the International Olympic Committee,Gunnar Ericsson and Petter Tallberg, recently at-tended the long distance event at the 1995 Ski-OWorld Cup in Finland as guests of the Finnish 0-Federation and the Finnish Olympic Committee.

"Thenumber of countries required todo aparticularsport is less for inclusion in the Winter than theSummer Olympics, so Ski-O bas a realistic chanceof inclusion at some stage.

SCIJOFOThe 1994 Scientific Journal of Orienteering hasbeen published at last, containing the proceedingsof the 5th International Symposium on Orienteer-ing in September in Switzerland and an annotatedO-bibliography. The subjects of the scientificmeeting papers include circadian rhythms. mentalpreparation. heart rate analysis and aerobic andanaerobic endurance.

Did you know, for instance, that late afternoonseems to be the best time of day for optimumperformance, when both your physiological andpsychological performance are at their best?

The Scientific Journal of Orienteering is normally

published twice yearly and is available by sub-scription through 110, cost IR£7 .50 per annum.

SOFTWARE PATHS FOR LOC 9SDublin computer training company, Software Pathshave kindly agreed to sponsor the 1995 LeinsterOrienteering Championships on May 21st at Car-lingford, the area first used for the 1993 IrishChampionships. The company naturally made theconnection between "paths" and "orienteering"and the organisers hope that you'll all be pleasedwith the result. Last lime. the weather the daybefore the event meant thigh deep snow on thehigher ground. What arc the chances of snow inMay again?If you are looking for accommodation in the area.try the newly opened Tdln Holiday Village 00-tween Garlingford and Omcath, just off the map.They have dormitory accommodation, campingand caravan spaces, mobile homes, private andfamily rooms. evening meals. D & B, swimmingpool etc. Hostel accommodation is £8 per night.Contact them at 042-75353, fax 042-75417.

If you'd like to make a weekend of it, there's anLVO Sprint-O at Castlcwcllan, near Newcastle,Co. Down the duy before, May 201h.

Entry forms were enclosed in the lust 110. Entriesto LOC 95. c/o Ian MacNeill. 7 Taney Lawn,Dundrum, Dublin 14. Entry fees to April 23rd areadults £6, student/unwagcd £4.50.junior£3. fam-ily £15. (April 23-May 7: £8/£6.50/£4.50/£20).

lOA NEWSApart from the postponement of the lOA AGMthere have been a couple of notable resignationsfrom important posts: Brendan Delaney and EileenLoughman, the two Coaching Officers on lOA,have resigned. as has World Championships teammanager Paddy O'Brien.

NORTHERN NOTESA new permanent course was opened at GosfordForest Park on March 4th thanks to the efforts ofFreddie McCann. the Armagh dynamo. Gosford is

near Markethill, between Newry and Armagh ...Queens arc on the way back: QUBOC were a forceto be reckoned with in Irish student orienteering inthe 70' s and they now seem to be getting it togetheragain. Stephen Wilson won the Irish StudentChamps ill Co. Galway in February and the QUBteam of Stephen, Richard Mayrs and Nigel Hartwon the relays. The plans are to run next year'sStudent Champs in Ulster ... The Irish B ird Watch-ing and Wildlife Fair will take place at the OxfordIsland National Nature Reserve. Craigavon, Co.Armagh on 29th September - 1st October and willbe opened by Magnus Magnusson. Details fromPositi ve Action, 63 Spa Road, Ballynahinch. BT248PT ... Welcome to Cork Orienteers who havejoined the other clubs taking bulkdeliveriesofTIO... Another new permanent O-course was unveiledat Ballykinler in Co. Down. on the shores ofDundrum Bay. The area is an AI1l1Yproperty withopen sand dunes, described by LVO' s Colin Hen-derson as probably the finest orienteering terrain inNorthern Ireland. The course was the brainchild ofCol. Chris Biles ofWimborne Oricnteers, one ofthe victims of last year's helicopter crash on theMull of Kintyre. The opening of the course wasmarked by a score event last October, won by LVO15 Timmy Pentland with Colin Henderson sec-ond ... LVO are running s sprint-O series this spring.with events at Cairn Wood. Castlewellan andGosford ...Congratulations to NIOA ChairpersonKathryn Millinson on the birth of a daughter,Elizabeth Margaret, recently ... Congratulationsalso to Leinstcrwho won the Interprovincial Cham-pionships at Glencree by a convincing margin.Hope to have a full report in 110 74 (plus the IrishChamps, British Champs, JK. irish Shoprt-OChamps and more ....

STUDENT CHAMPSThe Irish Student Championships were held at atop secret venue in Co. Galway on l Ith February(though the fact that there was to be an event atDunsandle, near Loughrea on tbe 12th might leadone to put 2 and 2 together). No surprises. then, tofind that the venue was, yes, Dunsandle! StephenWilson of Queen's was aclcar winner in the 7.5kmmen's race (77.08) with UCC's Brian Creedon

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second (81.07) and UCD's Mark O'Neill third(94.05). Queen's also won the men's relay. UCD' sEmma Glanville was an even clearer winner in the5.4 km women's race, winning in 53.05 fromUCC's Miriam Feehan (68.46) with UCD's NinaPhillips third in 88.46. UCD won the women'srelay.

WORLD CUP 98 UPDATEThe lOA is to apply to the IOF to hold a World Cuprace in 1998, the year before the World Champion-ships come to Scotland. All clubs were invited tocome up with plans for the event if they wereinterested and Cork Orienteers were chosen tospearhead the project. The plan is for the event tobe on the weekend of May 20th 1998, aClassic (i.e,full distance) race, with another classic race thefollowing weekend in Scotland. This will leadstraight on to the first World Championships train-ing camp in Scotland. During the week betweenthe Irish and Scottish races there will be a shortdistance race and a relay, one in England and onein Wales.

Although CorkO are nominally in the dri ving seatas far as the provision of the actual orienteering isconcerned, there is so much work to be done forthis event that the lOA is at pains to point out thatit has to,be a national effort. with all clubs becom-ing involved in administration, fund raising (oneestimate puts. the cost at around £50,(00), promo-tion, helping at the events and so on. Everyone willbe called upon to help.

To make the event viable it is likely that the actualWorld Cup race will be part of a multi-day event(maybe something like the Shamrock O-Ringen?)open to all. The World Cup attracts the world's toporienteers but only about two to three hundred innumber, so an extra seven or eight hundred orien-teers will be needed to run to make the thingfinancially viable.

There will be no escape!

WHAT'S ARE-ENTRANT?

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Net, the orienteering J_ ~ter network: "'wherewater would flow ifitrained enough." I think mostpeople understand the concept of a stream-bed ...even ifit's a steep dry one, that would only becomea stream ifitrained several inches an hour ... A spurcan often be described as a ridge-line running up ordownhill. Those are the most successful generaldescriptions I've given to beginners.

Another description that gives a more distinctdefinition, is, of the four directions around you(front, back left and right): re-entrant: 3 directionsup, one direction down; spur: one direction up, 3directions down. '

GOOD PUBLICITYThey say any publicity is good publicity, but afterreading the end of a piece in this week's DiamondValley News (a suburban newspaper inMelbourne)about Australian M16champion David Colls, youdo start to wonder .... "David hopes to be selected inthe Australian Jaywalk team that will competeagainst international teams within the next coupleof years'

David tells me that he did explain to the reporterthat "JWOC" stood for Junior World OrienteeringChampionships-it must have got lost along theway, or perhaps the reporter saw ourroad-crossingtechniques at the Eltham street event last week .... (O-Net).

FOR FORMER LOKKlES

FIXTURESCHANGESAcouple of'Leinsterfixtures have changed: 3ROCwisb toapologise for changing their Leinster Leagueevent at Clara on March 26th to a score event at thelast minute due totime pressure on the originalplanner. The League event has been rescheduledfor June 11sth and will be the 1995 League final.

CNOC's planned evening event at Russboroughon May 16th has been changed to Hollywood,starting at the north end, sign posted from Pou-laphuca Bridge.

In tbe autumn the 3ROC league event at Glendal-ough is being changed from October 15th to Octo-ber 1st.

TIO TROPHY 95Seven clubs have entered the 1995 Irisb OrienteerTrophy:CorkO,GEN, Kerry 0,LVO, SET, 3ROCand WATO. In view of this the preliminary roundswill be dispensed with and the event will be run asa grand final on Sunday September 3rd at Kinnitty,Co. Offaly. In the meantime adraw will be held todetermine which pairs of clubs will be pitted againsteach other on the day to decide the winner. Let'shope for a strong results team on the day!

GENNEWSA big thank you to all who helped out inGlencreeat the Iruer-provincials on 2nd April. The Club bada very successful day at the Leinster Score Cham-pionships. Congratulations to Jane Watt, A. B.Law, Mick Kelleu, Diaan Large, Susan and DavidHealy, Niamb Lalor and Deirdre Bell who all wooprizes on the day. It is very encouraging to see thejuniors doing'well.

We are hpoing to organise map reading and navi-gation training for new members when we haverecovered from glencree, with thelongereveningsit should be easier. Let me know if you are inter-ested so we can organise them to suit as many aspossible.

Some club members made anad dash to Wales onSt. Patrick's weekend for the British Champion-ships but with ABL at the wheel they arrived ontime despite streaking on the upper deck and for-

Are you now, or bave you ever been, amember ofLondon Orienteering Klubb(LOK)? Lokation, thenewsletter of LOK, is just reaching edition 100. Iam trying to find 100 LOK members (past andpresent) to contribute articles. If anyone out therehas been a member (or even run at one of ourevents, or known a member) then I' d like a shortarticle on a subject of your choice. Suggestionsinclude - your worst 0 experience, - your best 0experience, - memories of particular LOK areas(Leith Hill OK77), Holmbury, Box Hill, Adding-ton Hills, Trent Park, Hampstead Heath, Bookh am

Someorienteeringtennsarefarfromselfexplana- Common ...) All contributors will get a copy oftory. One which must puzzle beginners is the term Lokation 100 when it is published.Thanks"re-entrant". Here are some definitions from the 0- Simon Errington, l00c Casenove Road, London

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getting to buy the bananas for Jane!!

Our next event is the Leinster League at Trooper-stown on May 14th. Nora Lalor a sorganiser willwelcome any offers of help, especially from any-one not available for Glencree.

Nora Lalor, Secretary, GEN.

3ROCNEWSCongratulations to Cork Orienteers on their suc-cess at getting to apply for the 1998 World Cupevent. No hard feelings! Congratulations also toourprizewinners at the Leinster Score Champs andthe Short-O Champs at Raven's Rock.

Club Championships are at Setanta's event atMullaghmeen on April 23rd.

Weekly training at St. Columba's College,Rathfarnham at 6.30 on Tuesdays.

We need your help for the Leinster Champs (May21st). Contact Liam Convery (2697107).

Membership enquiries to Judith Butler, 130 Ole-nageary Avenue, Glenageary, Co. Dublin(2853823).

3ROC Members: Your Rocker is enclosed.

ElectronIc IOF Cal!"d!f

The IOF have put their 1995 calendar ondisk, and I have a copy. Only 19countries participated In this experiment.These are Australia, Austria, Belgium,Bulgaria, China, Finland, Germany,Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, NewZealand, Norway, Romania, Slovakia,Spain, Sweden, Switzer1and, and (ofcourse) Ireland. The number of eventslisted per country vary between 2 (forChina) to 522 (for Sweden).

If anyone wants a printout of the events inany of these countries, send me astamped addressed envelope, naming thecountry and the months on whichinformation is needed.

Frank Cunnane

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Irish Championships1995 - The Black

LakesBernard Creedon, mapper and planner for thisyear's Irish Championships, gives us a tasterof the event:

Cork Orienteers accepted responsibilty for the1995 IOC in the face of hitches occurring in theplans of the original organisers. We took on theworkload (despite the annual high commitment tothe Shamrock a-Ringen, etc.) with reasonableconfidence, especially since the map was to beproduced by another club.Tben, in October, Murphy's Law intervened andthe possibility of production of the Comeragh'smap faded. The 1995 IOC now had no venue. Wedebated using one of the Shamrock O-Ringenareas but for various reasons we had to rule theseareas out. On Saturday, November 12th, BobbyO'Connor and Iheaded off to Kerry with a view toevaluating last minute possibilities. Itwas a pro-ductive day. we headed off individually and ar-rived back to the car well after dusk (my logrecorded 20 miles of running and perhaps 10 ofwalking). Though knackered, we were both hyperbecause webad discovered huge areas of excellent

terrain for future sh~_lk O-Ringens and, ofcourse, the Irisb Championships.The ground survey began on Thursday Decemberlst at Morley's Bridge and since then Ihave spentmost good days (and quite a few bad ones) on theterrain. I have seen it in fog, rain, sleet, hail andsnow and I still wonder about the possibility ofdeveloping webbed feelIn good weather the scenery is breathtaking andunique. Even then it is not easy to sort out the visualpresentation of offset terraced marshes and rockyribs in all directions (this would relate to the largecentral area). Even huge features like the lakes arenot evident until one gets close. There are very fewlinear features in the central area. Most of themarshy plain are very runnable although there arcsome "uncrossable" marshes which must be takenseriously. Some incredibly complex ribbed areasare good underfoot. Very little in the way of forestsis featured although all com pctitors should experi-ence some pleasant oak and birch woods withancient origins. Stirling Surveys have describedthe area as "the most complicated and difficult ..they have ever seen.We have no doubt but that the orienteering Chal-lenges will be of the highest order. We hope youenjoy the Black Lakes.

Organiser: Kcn Griffin (CorkO). Planner: BernardCreedon (CorkO). Controller: Kevin O'Dwyer(Southern 0).

The Other Man's GrassOrienteering made the front page of the NewZealand Herald - Auckland's one and only paper,in a report on the North Island Championships atthe end of January:'Racers run intoforest puzzle'Cannibis growers had orienteers running aroundin circles yesterday when championship markerswere moved to keep plots secret. As competitors inthe elite men 'sfield at the North Island Champion-ships set off on back country bush trails, they foundthat somebody had been ahead of them. A cont rol[lag had been moved about 100m and further on a30-litre water container had been removed fromthe course in the Santoft Forest, about 30km south-

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east of Wanganui. 'The course went through adense area where nobody else goes except thesepot planters and mad orierueers' an orienteeringcompetitor, Mr Ralph King, said IClStnight. 'Wesuspect the controlflag was moved because it wastoo close to one of the crops. ' The day's event wascancelled because of the confusion. The elite men '.I'

title was awarded to a Norwegian, Carl Bjorseth,who won on Saturday in a race on a differentcourse. Mr King said the interference by the can-nibis growers had angered and disappointed the223 orienteers gathered for the championships.'This is the first time in 20 years we have had anevent cancelled through something like this. 'Overthe past several years the risk of running accross

cannibis plots had be ..~ one of the hazards oforienteering. 'In the past, people training in otherforests have had these guys fire shots at them.'The police were told of the incident. A1spokesmanfor the Wanganui police said yester&y that theSantoft Forest area was not known for being a bigcannibis-growing area. The complain/ would beinvestigated, however. Wanganui police chiefscaused a stir last week in some police circles bydeciding not to take part in this year's nationalcannibis recovery programme.

VETERAN WORLD CUP 1996Advance Information:

PROGRAMME for ywe:Mon. 8th April: Model event

Opening ceremonyQualifying Day 1Qualifying Day 2Rest day"A" and "8" finals.Prize giving andClosing Ceremony.

Tue. 9th April:Wed. 10th April:Thu. 11th April:Fri. 12th April:

ADDITIONAL ORIENTEERING:The "MURCIA COSTA CAUDA" (anannual International 2-day event) will takeplace on Tue. 9th and Wed 10th.

GettIng there: EI AJtetairport in Alicante is45 minutes from Murcia, via motorway.For those driving, the French border isabout 750 kms, all on motorway.

ComDttJtjon Centre: Murcia (a city In SWSpain, about 45 kms from the coast).

Competition areas: are about 15, 40 and50 kilometres from Murcia. The "ModelEvent" is 10 kilometres distant.

Festivities: During the week of thecompetItion, the "Spring Festival" willtake place in Murcia. This festival is ofparticular interest to tourists. Itculminates on Saturday evening and nightwith "Entierro de la Sardina". 11b!nk thisis a traditional form of dancing, held onthe streets, in which anyone may join.

Frank Cunnane

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WORLD CHAMPS1995

Who is going to make it onto the Irish team thisyear? Will newcomers like Marcus Pinker andColm Rothery be there, will Eileen Loughmanmake it 11 in a row? Nobody knows yet. What wedo know is a bit more about the competitions them-selves, as revealed ill the second bulletin for the1995 World Championships. There will be somechanges from the format of previous woe's: therewill be qualification races but no B or C finals;countries will no longer be entitled to any runnersin the classic distance race unless they qualify intheir own right; no spikes of any description maybe worn. Team numbers will be restricted to fivemen and five women with a maximum of fourofficials.

WOC 95 TlMETABLEThe 1995 World Championships at Lippe in Ger-many will have several opportunities for non-woe orienteers to compete. The timetable for thewoe week is given below. Entry forms should beavailable from lOA or from OK-Ot WM '95Lippe, Kreishaus Detmold, Felix-Fechenbach-Str.5, 0-32756 Deunold, Germany (fax 0049-5231-622(53).August 7-1312-14th

13th

Final woe training camp.Three days of competition open tothe public.Competition centre in Detmoldopens.

14th Accreditation of teams; modelevent. Trail-O.

15th am: Classic qualification race; pmOpening ceremony.

16th Classic distance final.17th Rcstday. Spectators' race on "Clas-

sic" map; lOF and press race.18th Short distance qualification and

final; Banquet.19th Restday. Spectators' race on "short

distance" map. Trail-O.20th Relay. Closing ceremony.

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The event centre is at Dcl)d and the forests areof mixed pine, spruce and beech with moderate tofast runnability. Daytime temperatures will rangefrom 16-18 C on cool days to 30 C on wann days.Theevents will use the Regnly electronic punchingsystem so competi tors will not have a conven tionalcontrol card. This system will also be used in themodel races to give competitors a chance to try itout.From 1997 (woe in Norway) the teams can con-sist of up to 7 men and 7 women but accommoda-tion restrictions in Germany mean the team sizewill be ten at most, plus officials.Spiked shoes, including the "Dobb" spikes (rubberstuds with metal tips) will not be allowed.For the classic races there will be two parallelqualification races with the best 30 from eachgoing through to the final the following day, 60runners in all. There will be no B or C finals.Countries may enter up to 4 men and 4 women inthe qualification races.Course lengths for the qualification races are 6.5kml240 m for women (winning time 45 minutes)and 9.5 km/340 m for men (winning time 55minutes). The finals will be 10.1 km/350 m (70mins) for women and 16.5 kml650 m (90 mins) formen.In the Short Distance races each country Can againenter up to four runners, one in each of fourqualification races. The best 15 from each race willgo to the final but again there will be no B or Cfinals later the same day.Course lengths will be 4.2 km/ 130 m(25 mius) forwomen and 5.2 km/160 m (25 mins) for men. Thefinals will be 4.0 kml140 m (25 nuns) for womenand 5.0 lun/170m (25 mins) for men.In the Relay the legs will beof different lengths forthefirst time. Both men's and women's relays willbe for teams of four. Legs 1 and 2 of the women'srelay will be 5.0 kml200 III (35 minutes) and legs3 and 4 6.5 km1250 m (45 minutes). For the men,legs 1 and 2 willbe 7.5km1300 m(45 minutes) andlegs 3 and410.5km1350m (60 minutes). The totalwinning time for the men will be 220 minutes andfor the women 160 minutes.It is expected that the Irish team will be selected atthe beginning of JUDe.

SELECJON NEWS

A.IRISH TEAM NOMINATION FORM

This issue ofTIO contains an Irish Team Nomina-tion Form which is intended for use by all competi-tive senior (i.e MlW19 and up) runners in Ireland.(Those MIW 17's interested in representing Ire-land at MfW 19 level should also complete theform).This might also be called an 'expression of inter-est' form. It was produced by Frank Ryan, as hisexperience using such forms for World Universi-ties teams was very positive. Frank has alreadycirculated some of these forms at the Lough 2-Day,and this enclosure in TIO forms part of a morethorough circulation drive. Thanks to all those whohave already replied. It has already proved veryuseful. Iwould strongly urge all those who havenot yet done so to return tbe form to me in the nearfuture.Rest assured that the contents will be treated con-fidentially. Ifa person would prefer not to reveal allof the details included in the form (such as age),that is no problem. The most essential item toclarify is what events and in what age classes oneWISHES TO BE CONSIDERED. Obviously, if anage and a statement such as 'Whatever I'm eligiblefor' are included, it gives the selectors maximumflexibility and itmeans that frequent updates wouldnot be needed.

B. WOC '95 - SELECTION POLICY UP-DATES

1. Due to the postponement of the ConnachtChampionships, home based runners arc express-ing difficulty in finding a sufficient number of

good events within the selection period, There-fore, if the rescheduled Connacht Champs takeplace on the first weekend in June, they can be usedfor selection purposes. Note that this is a specialexception to the May 31 deadline and is feasibleonly because the selectors will be on-hand at theevent, so that posting delays will be avoided.Please ensure that the selectors are aware of yourresult on the day.

2. As the selectors will meet on the weekend of theConnacht Champs, I would be extremely gratefulif the results ofyour events could reach meby June2, if at all possible. Irealise that it may not be easyto get full official results of events which take placein late May, but supply as much information aspossible. It is in your interest that the selectionshould take place early.

3. J would be grateful if those of you who arewaiting until the last moment tomakcyourchoicescould write to let me know tbat you are interestedin selection, to avoid wasted time and money. Iwould encourage all of you to seek selection. 'Ifyou are not in then you can't win' and there isnotbing to lose. We want as strong a panel aspossible.

4. If an additionalbead-to-head' selection race isrequired, it will be on the second day of theShamrock Oringen on June 24.

Richard Kavanagh, Convenor of SelectorsContact Details»Richard Kavanagh, 'Tara', 3, Maryville, Ballin-temple,Cork,Ph-021-291610(H),902827(W), Fx-271698,Email: R_KAVANAGH@EEVAXl.UCC.IE

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Justin May describes orienteer-

ing on mountain bikes ...

A TIME MACHINELet me take you on a journey back in time,

to the time before six-colour, photogrammet-rically based; computer plotted maps wereeven dreamt of.

When dawn broke upon the sport of orien-teering it was dependent upon small scale O.Smaps fornourishment and controls were sitedon prominent features depicted on the map oreven more obvious ones that were not.

Fine map reading didn't really come into it.Good route choice and route finding were thenecessary requisites for success and, dareIsay itintoday's world of high-tech orienteering, a sixthsense that combined guess work, luck and a kind ofspatial awareness unsupported by information fromthe map.

Now jump forward through time from thosesweet days of innocence, climb aboard a mountainbike and.Hey! What do you know? It's all innocentfun again!

At this point I will acknowledge that many ori-enteers regard "now" as the good days and "then"as the bad ones. While I appreciate accurate mapsbetter than most, more then anything I love thephysical experience of orienteering. Running orcycling, detached from everyday reality in thatother world. Highly technical orienteering, whichthese days seems to be the politically correct defi-nition of good orienteering, isn't so appealing, forwhen physical effort must be reined back to enablethe head to cope with the complexities of intri-cately detailed maps and terrain, the buzz isn't sogreat, and inability to deal with the situation leadsto frustration.

So, back to the bikes. Mountain Bike Orienteer-ing (MBO from now onl) is rapidly growing inpopularity in 'Britam and while it draws the major-ity of its participants from a mountain bike or ageneral cycling background, a growing proportion

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are being attracted frocoJ",~lional orienteering. Itseems to have been proven tbat a fit orienteer whois also at least a reasonable bike rider will oftencomeouton top. The lasttwoeditions of the PolarisChallenge (a bike version of the traditional two-day mountain marathons) have been won convinc-ingly by the Bolland brothers, Sean and Brendan,whose family will be quite familiar to orienteers,and I've managed to win the solo class in the(British) national "Trailquest" league for the pasttwo years. I expect it to be much tougher this year,however, as the bikers get their act together andnavigate with more confidence but I'Il be trying ashard as ever!

Internationally the IOF is keen to grasp controlof this fledgeling sport so that it remains essentiallyan orienteering sub-sport, like ski-orienteering.

In Britain the "Polaris" has been taking placetwice a year now for the last four years and isalways oversubscribed, with a full complement offive hundred teams oftwo. The Trailquest league,now in its third year, has grown from six events in1993, twelve in '94 to eighteen this year, with anumber of other non-league events also takingplace.

The basic format of MBO, as I have experi-enced it, is that of a score event, usually of fivehours' duration. The facttharcornpetitors can takethe controls in any order means that the competi-tion does not constitute a race and as such is able touse the public bridleways and forest tracks withfew restrictions.

The maps used are normally the O.S 1:50,000Landranger series or the 1:25,000 Outdoor lei-sure/ Pathfinder series. These are quite adequatefor the road and bridleway network though theirdeficiencies become apparent within the forestboundaries when it is often unclear just what iswhat. Usually there are more tracks than are shownand those that are shown can vary widely in ridea-bility from good forest roads to narrow muddypaths and overgrown rides.

Master map systems are favoured by some or-ganisers and you are allowed to plot the control lo-cations before starting, giving some time for routeplanning. Other organisers, however, like to inflicteight-figure grid references, issued only on start-ing, which immediately lops a good twenty min-

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utes off your time asyou'blggle to plot up to thirtyof the wretched things accurately. r

The control sites are generally obvious, un-miss able features, such as the end of a forest road('dog -leg' doesn't exist in MBO terminology!) butthe fact that some planners might not come from anorienteering background can lead to some badlysited (i.e. very difficult to find) control markerswhich are invariably six inch squares of metal orplastic though even flower pots are used some-times!

The main orienteering skills required arechoos-ing the optimum sequence in which to take thecontrols and then the route choice between them,minimising the climb being an important factor.On several occasions I have totalled over fivethousand feet of climb which makes for quite ahard day! On the other hand, distances covered arenot that great: between thirty and fifty miles isnormal, which is not a lot in five hours.

Other skills needed are basic cycling skillsthough there is generally little technically difficultriding involved and in any case, there's nothingstopping you dismounting and running with thebike if you think that'll be quicker.

Preparation is important. Study the map welland plan optimum routes through the terrain (asyou use standard O.S maps you can but them in theweeks beforehand). Don't forget to cover it withtranspaseal or seal it ill a map case as five hours ofrai n, wind and mud can beharsh OLl paper maps! Asfor your bike, be a sure as possible that everythingis in perfect working order so that your greatestmisfortune will be no more than apuncture and youcan be sure tbat you'll get a few of those throughthe course of a year. Carry spare tubes, pump anda few basic tools ill case of problems.

Food and drink are essential to survive fivehours on the go and I use a system ("Camelbak")that allows you to carry two litres of liquid on yourback with a tube that enables you to drink easily asyou are riding along. To eat, I carry a few biscuitbars though nothing fancy like the ridiculouslypriced Power pars, just supermarket cheapies forme! As itis, Ipften don't eat them unless I actuallyfeel hungry, preferring to get my energy from thedrink solution which 1 make up from one of thehigh carbohydrate powders now available.

So, whileMBO is going from strength tostrengthin Britain, I wonder would there be sufficientinterest in Ireland for it to gain a hold? There issome scope to incorporate a bike elass withinconventional score events but unless the controlswere sited with cyclists in mind, this wouldn't betoo satisfactory. More suitable would be a specifi-cally staged event and if a large enough area offorest with a good network of rideable trails couldbe found, an event with a one or two hour time limitwould be quite feasible. As for five hour events,there are few enough forested areas that can con-tain an event of that duration in Britain and none inIreland. However, what works wellis to use an areawith a num ber of separate woods linked by countrylanes and public tracks and the new 1:50,000 mapof Wicklow would be ideal with an event centredin the Glendalough area.

Over to you!

lustinMay.

'Dear J1lnge(a,

"I am in good shape and have my error rate undercontrol. My times are consistent and I am runningreally hard, yet 1cannot seem to break into the topfew in the results lists. I know my speed and routesare as good as the others' and my errors less, butmy times are usually a couple of minute's slower.My technique must need improving but I cannotfigure out where. Whaldoldo? Is theresomethingI could do that would point me in the right direc-tion?" - Joe S.

Joe. in response to your question from the hypo-thetical orienteer who can't seem to break into thebreak into the top ranks despite consistent times,errorrate under control, fit and running hard, speedas good as the competition, and routes as good asthe competition, you would have to look at thesefacts and think that if they were all really true, thenthis runner should have top times comparable tothe competition. But since he/she doesn't, thatmeans at least one of these facts must not be true.

The Irish Orienteer l7

So I would advise the orienteer to treat these"facts" as assumptions and check each one to see ifthey individually ring true or not. Typically, mysuspicion is that most people use far less of theirrunning capacity in the forest than they have orbelieve they're using. And J have on a number ofoccasions taken far better (road) runners than mealong for arun in the forest (or even on rough trails)and have been surprised by the difficulty theyusually have keeping up. So another questioncould be askedofthisorienteer: dothey spend timetraining in the forest, or does mostoftheir physicaltraining take place on roads?Another thing J have repeatedly found is that manyfolks have close to no idea at all how much timethey actually lose in so many varieties of ways, andrepeatedly throughout a course, in small bits oftimes which add up to a really big chunk of time bythe finish. An accomplished oricntcercoukl shadowthe hypothetical orienteer and provide some moreobjectivity here.

Many people also seem to accept a certain numberof smaller errors as being "acceptable", and figureanything like. ?-10 minutes lost is just the norm,and doesn't.really count against you, when ofcourse the truih is that good oricnteers should beable to run most races close to error-free. Muchmore than (2 minutes lost per race indicatesthere's still lots of work to be done ...If certain types of errors crop up over and over, orif the errors occur at the same places in the race orin the same situations, then that indicates a system-atic error which needs to be trained away. If errorsare random il\ type and place then that indicates theproblem lies.with inappropriate speed. or else aproblem in concentration, or some other sort ofmental problem (decisiveness, confidence, etc.),Systematic errors are far easier to train away.(Mikell PIaU)

18 The lrish'Orienteer

They sh(J~t horses,don't they?

Aonghus 0 Cleirigh CNOC

I wish to announce my retirement from inter-national representative orienteering .... or, tobe more precise, I wish to announce mat Iretired from me Irish team almost 6years ago!"What on earth is this guy ranting on about?",you ask. Let me explain.

Commitment ...After giving 10 years of commitment to interna-tional orienteering, it was time for me to "let go"and move on to other things. So I stepped downfrom the Irish team after the World O©champs illSweden in 1989, and sent a letter to that effect to theincoming squad manager. It was a decision that Tdidn't take lightly, but one that I've since beenquite bappy with.

Patriotic duty...At the time I didn't think it would be necessary tomake a public announcement about the matter. Itwasn't a big deal. Word-of-mouth should havebeen sufficient to spread the message. However,some people still (kindly) ask me when I'm goingto do my patriotic duty again, and compete for mycountry. Hence, this announcement!

Merits of announcement ...Actually, now that I think about it, the announce-ment of one's retirement bas certain merit. Rou-tinely, we read about rugby players, footballers.and international track athletes, hanging up theirboots and spikes, respectively. I've even read theretirement announcements of elite Scandinavianoricnteers in their national Ovmagazines. Suchannouncements serve a useful purpose, since theymark the end of an athlete's international careerand help avoid misunderstandings.

Thanks everyone ...Something Ididn'tdo 6 years ago, and would liketo do now, is publicly tbank my club-mates and

friends for encouraging n,~~d helping me through-out my orienteering career. I'd also like to thankthose wbo contributed to the development andadministration of the national squad ... team man-agers, administrators, selectors and coaches.

Irish elite standards ...The future of Irish elite orienteering is assured.Marcus Pinker, as ajunior, has produced perform-ances that any senior would be proud of. BothColm O'Halloran and Brian Corbett are still im-proving, and Colm Rothery, a relative newcomerto the sport, is a force to be reckoned with. BillEdwards and Una Creagh lead the Irisb challengein the UK. Some of Una's results in Britain rateamong the best Irish performances ever, eithermale or female. And there are others whom Ihaven't mentioned here who are pushing at thefrontiers oflrish elite standards.

Good Luck! ...So, the very best of luck to all of you in yourpreparations for WOC'95, and a special good luckto Eileen Loughman. who is contesting a place forher 11th World Championships appearance!

An Esoteric History ofthe Black Lakes

Many of us run in the terrain without reallyseeing or appreciating what is around us.Bernard Creedon gives us a behind tllescenes look at this year's Irish Championshipsarea in Co. Kerry ...

Long, long ago (in fact approximately 4,500 mil-lion years ago) a superficial thin mantle solidifiedabove the earth's core, thus stabilising the earth' s(to then changing) external dimensions. Then begana 500 million year bombardment of its surface byasteroid and meteorite fragments indentations arestill visible on our nearest neighbour, the moon, asa signature of this period). However the earth'sbrittle surface and tectonic activity absorbed theseimpacts. The earliest known "rocks". found inGreenland, date to 3,800 million years ago. By

now magnetic polarity (no compass yet!) waspresent. Around the same period a new factorentered the equation - life. Blue-green algae havebeen found in rocks 3600 million years old.Over the next 1000 million years (the ArchaeanEon) the rocky nuclei of all the major continentsformed but it was not until 700 million years agotbat Laurasia began to break up into the NorthAmerican/European/ Asian group. Ireland had lostits final cbance of being part of America andinstead slung its hook on the periphery of theEurasian tectonic plate. By this time life had evolvedto jellyfish, worms and primitive molluscs.During the Devonian Period (350-400 million yearsago) Old Red Sandstone formed in the south westof Ireland as a result of erosion debris (sand andgravel deposited by rivers) compacting and even-tually bonding together. By now life had evolvedto wingless insects, land plants were firmly cstnh-lished and a few aquatic species began to experi-ment with leaving the water for a short while.Huge land mass movements then led to the flood-ing of most of the British Isles during the Carbon-iferous Period between 360 and 285 million yearsago. (Over the last few months, one would wonderif anything has changed!) The explosive develop-ment of marine creatures yielded a calcium-richsediment as a thick coating on the sea bad, whicheventually formed our familiar grey limestone.(Insects were now flying and the earliest reptileswalked the land).Then, about 270 million years ago, the Armoricanupheaval resulted in pressure from the south push-ing westCorkand Kerry up agninstthe morefinnlybased land mass to the north. Thus emerged theeast-west folds so evident in the south west (look ata relief map of this area: this is how the mountainchains - the Reeks, the Slieve Mish, the Cahas - andthe long harbours - Dingle, Bantry and Kenmarebays - were formed.So by now the above-water land consisted of aneast-west folded dual layer of limestone uponsandstone. Over ensuing geological periods thelimestone skin was eroded off the more prominentunderlying sandstone and deposited in lower areas.The soil from sandstone is of poor quali ty. facilitat-ing only limited plaqcsupport, while that fromlimestone is rich and n"ttritious. Therefore we then

The Irish Orienteer 19

had semi-barren uplands and fertile valleys.The retreat of the glaciers about 10,000 years agoalso created many cirques or "cooms" at high levelin the south west At last theBlaclc: Lakes had comeinto existence. By now, of course, man was themost sophisticated life form on earth (homo pre-orienteerus). The rain forests evolved to the majes-tic natural oak forests as well as birch and hazelwoods. Over the last few thousand years (up to1000 years ago) the Blacle: Lakes witnessed theformation of blanket bog in the upland locality.Man had already made his first impression on thelower landscapes and the mild and frequently wetweather was an established fact.By the 12th century this area was dominated by theClancarthy. Dermot M6r McCarthy swore alle-giance to Henry n in 1172 as a strategy to protecthis lands. A tremendous battle was fought nearbyin Callan, Kilgarvan in 1260, wherein the Geraldi-nes (Fitzgeralds) and their allies were broken bythe main McCarthy clan. Throughout the 1300'sand 1400' s the McCarthys maintained their domi-nance inthe area and the English authorities all butgave up hope of capturing these wild lands. Asignificant portion of the mapped area was in the

possession of the O'~)ghUeS (of the Glen) upuntil their defeat by Cromwell's forces in 1654 atKillaha and Ross Castle.During the famine the population of the mappedarea declined from approximately 100 to 25. Thelastoftbe landlords for this area were Henry ArthurHerbert, MP for South Kerry, who built MuckrossHouse, and Mr. James Hardtop.Once again I would like to invoke "The OrienteersLament". Up to the 17th century most of theselands were covered in oak. Combined with thetopography we might have inherited the mostcomplex and interesting orienteering terrain on theface of the planet. Instead the oak woods wereharvested to provide fuel for the smelters but morecommonly to build warships and food casks forbutter, rum etc. Somehow I feel that the landlordsscrewed up again.

(Bernard Creedon has spent over 50 days survey-ing the area for the 1995 Irish Championships,during which time he has developed a Tim Robin-son-like relationship with the area, its history,inhabitants and placenames. He is also the courseplanner for the event.)

IRISH MOUNTAIN RUNNING ASSOCIATIONDATE DAY16104195 SUN17104195 MeN26/04195 WED

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20 The Irish Orienteer

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STARTING PLACE2 mlIell(elgnposted) Irom Ooon, Co. LimerickCamara HMITrack, GI.n oIlmaal. Co. Wlcklow."e of Calary Filing Station. Aoundwood Road.KMmacanog.. , Co. Wlcklow.Featherbed Road, Co. Dublin (Kllak. -Glencree).An B thar Pub, nr Srandon Creek, DingleKruger Kavanagh a Pub. Ounquln, Co. KenyGAA Club, Oungritlln Rd.. Howth, Co. DublinTicknock, IV Lamb Doyle •• SandylOfd. Co. Dublin.Near Larne, Co. Anlrlm, N.lrelandHell FireWoods. Klllakee, Co. Dublin.S• .,.,d of Bray Promenade, Co. Wlcklow.Lough Aooosa, Glenear. Co. KenyNear Lough Gukane. KMlarney,Co. KerryVenue 10 be decidedSlue Light Pub, nr Sendylord, Co. Dublin112mMeLarllQh.Co. Wlcklow, on SaayGap Rd.Venue to be decidedDublin Spor! Hotel. Kllternan. Co. Dublin.Kehoe, Pub, Kilcash. Co. Tipperary.Stone Cross, BalinlOSOO(ney,Co. Dublin.RTE Soctal Club. Donnybrook, Dub"n 4Stone Cross. BallinllSoorney, Co. DublinCarraway.lck Bridge. Glenmalure. Co. WlcldowVenue to be decIdodCalary Car Park, Roundwood Road. Co. Wocklow.

3ROC CHRISTMAS FANCY~lssSCORE EVENT 26th DEC

11M IIInw .. Rock Wood, Co. Dublin.

POSNAME

BURGLAR MAY

2 GBRADY

3 S BELL

4 ACOX

5 WYOUNG

6 UCREAGH

7 G DOHERTY

CLASS CLUB •

M35 3ROC 50

M21 CORKO

M40 GEN

M21 3ROC

M40 CNOC 30 390

W2f 3ROC 10 365

M21 GEN 40 360

8 NIGEL C CRAWFORD M50 3ROC

9 TCALLERY M21 UCOO

10 EOIN DUNNE

J de LACY

12 PREDMOND

13 DCASHIN

14 P NOLAN

15 DWICKHAM

MONEILL

17 A YOUNG

18 JWATT

MOHARA

JMURPHY

DOCOLMAIN

A HIPPY McMENAMINM21 CNOC 50 10

23 E GLANVILLE W2t 3ROC

M21 3ROC

M40 AJAX

M40 SET

M35 AJAX

M21 GEN 25

M2t AJAX 20

M21 UCOO

KSO

W40 GEN

M40 AJAX

FIN

24 M FLYNN

NCARROLL

MDONOVAN

M2t CORCO

M50 GEN

M21 3ROC

27 LUKEC CRAWFORD MI3 3ROC

PIRATE DOHERTY MSO GEN SO

28 M GEOGHEGAN

30 IAN MacNEILL

K McDONALD

UOCOLMAIN

B LAWLESS M21

M21 AJAX

MOO 3ROC

M35 AJAX

TCLEARY

3S OWESTON

W45 3ROC

M21 SET

3S M 0 SUIT NOWLAN W45 3ROC 40

G ELLIOTT M21 3ROC

38 P SCOT FLANAGAN MSO 3ROC

ROBIN HOOD M500 3ROC SO

40 JOAN FLANNAGAN W21 AJAX 20

4t OKELLY M21 FIN

40

80

50

20

10

10

SCHOOLBOY DUNLOP M55 SET

M CONVERY W21 3ROC

A B LAW M60 GEN

E 0 SUILLEABHAIN M45 3ROC

JOSEPH RYAN MIS 3ROC

47 J MEADE M45 3ROC

48 M DAVEY M21 DUO

Tolal

S05470

425

395B DOLAN

A Ni SHUILLEASHAIN W40 3ROC

5t M KAVANAGH M40

M21

340

330

320

320

315

310

305

300

300

295

290

280

280

290

280

285

280

280

280

275

275

270

260

260

260

260

260

255

245

245

240

240

240

230

RRIGNEY

53 P McCORMACK

N CARROLL Jr

55 L NAUGHTON

56 NLALOA

R DOLLARD

MMAGUIRE

S9 MWALSH

60 G SYRNE

J 0 NEILL

COMARA

JOHN KENNY

JOHN BELL

65 ALAN MORRISSY

M35 CNOC

MSO GEN

M21 GEN

W40 3ROC

W? GEN

MIS FIN

W45 3ROC

M21

W4S FIN

M3S 3ROC

J LYNAM

69 EO SULLIVAN

ELEANOR0 NEilL WI3 3ROC

TONY FARRELL M21

MIS GEN

M21

M70 3ROC

M21 SET

B SCOT FLANNAGANW4S 3ROC

P BARTLETT 3ROC

72 C PASHA CARROLL M60 3ROC 50

J LALOR

MOROURKE

MGALLIGAN

76 MWALKER

77 DNAGLE

N PHILLIPS

79 OBERMAN

80 KCREEVY

81 BCOADY

82 P DEMPSEY

MMAGUIRE

SMcCARTl-IY

oWATT

M40 GEN

W19 GEN

W21 CAOC

3ROC

Wt9 UCDO

M21

M21

M55 GEN

M21 FIN

M21

M45 GEN

so

30

60

230

230

230

230

230

225

220

220

220

210

210

205

205

200

190

190

190

180

t7S

175

175

175

175

170

170

170

170

165

165

165

160

160

160

160

155

ISO

150

145

140

135

130

130

130

130

10

10

20

10

10

50

30

40

30

30

20

10

30

10

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F 0 NElLL

JLEONARD

GWILKIE

S9 DNICHOL

BUCKLEY

RBYRNE

92 0 OONOGHUE

EJONES

N+RMAGUIRE

95 S ROORIGUEZ

NGRIFFITHS

97 CWALSH

RMOLUMBY

RBLAW

MMoGREADY

101 E SMYTH

DOBRIEN

AGALBRITH

104 A KEABNGE

TOMMY CAFFERY

KILCULLEN

A CLARE

A+J FLEGG

FOBRIAIN

P CALLERY

111 L RODRIGUEZ

G PORTER

113M KEUETT

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1150 DEMPSEY

OBRIAIN

V RIGNEY

GILLIESPIE

119P ROACH

120RFLYNN

N NOWLAN

122BRUTON

123J QUILL

124S HEALY

125EQUILL

126 BESSLERS

127 J+R EARLE

128 KELLIHER

129LPING PING

22 The Irish Orienteer

W45 SET

M21 DUO 10

M21

W21 FIN

M21

M17 CRO

W21 FIN

W21 FIN

W21

W50 asocM35 GEN

GEN

W21 saocW21

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M21 SET

M35 ECO

SET

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UCOO

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GEN

M55 GEN

M21 FIN

M21

FIN

M21 aaoc

M21

M50 SET

W13 aaocM21

FIN

W13 GEN

FIN

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130

130

130

20 125

10 125

125

50 120

120

10 120

20 115

10 115

20 110

110

110

110

20 105

105

105

100

100

30 100

100

160 100

100

50 100

20 95

95

50 90

70 90

80

80

80

230 80

60 75

20 70

70

130 45

70 0

200 -40

90 -45

170 -60

250 -100

130 -110

JENNY SHERWOOD

SHERWOOD

SHERWOOO

133 KANE

134M HEALY

135J HUGHES

136BKERRY

137 K+S 0 CONNOR

1380 CONNOR

139G FINNEGAN

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M21

W17

3ROCscO\)event, Clara, Co.Wicklow, 26 March 1995-:--

270 -140

270 -140

270 -140

280 -150

290 -160

740 -235

350 -240

710 -580

DNF

DNF

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9

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MIS

A BELL, M KELLY, HOGAN & two more DNF

310 ·140 Speclallhanks 10 Brian 10( his lime w~h the ploner

RESUL T6 OF SHORT COURSE 2 km tSm CUMB

GMEADE

2 FO HANLON

CANTWELL

4 E FITZSIMONS

5 RAY McMENAMIN

6 EDDIE HOGAN

SNOWLAN

8 a MURPHY

9 S MURPHY

o MURPHY

11 P FLANAGAN

A WALSH

NWALSH

KFLANAGAN

15 E BARRY

16 S BARRY

17 N LALOR

18 CQUINN

19 FIEBUCK

20 KEELANY

R.DMEADE

G CALLERY

33.01

33.38

33.38

36.47

37.07

39.36

41.44

48.25

48.36

48.36

52.11

52.11

52.11

52.11

61.03

61.12

61.48

65.01

72.17

101.16

M5

M8 51

We hope Ihallhe miserable we.lher did nol delracllo much lrom

your enjoyment ollhe courses and we appreciate your support.

Planned, Conlrolled and Organised by Ihe Glenageary Bullers.

PhUip, Jud~h and JeN. Many lhanks 10 all who helped on the day:

The Walklnstown Butlers: Michael, Toni, Fiona and Gerard. The

Glenageary Butlers: Gerard, Amy and Donal.

Trina, John, lan, Undy, Alan. Eleanor, Con, Jean, Brian and

Juslln.

CNOCFINCNOCCNOCCNOC

aaocWHOGENCNOC7 FAR7 FAR3ROC

GEN

STANOsaocWOWHO7FAR7 FARWHOOPC95WHOGEN

Class Polnts PenaltyScore

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M50

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M35

M45W50M35

M70M35M21

M14M21W45

W21M17M65

M16W21CNOCM21W15W40MilM16M21M16M13W40

W45M21M15W21M19M13M21M21

W21W15M50

M21M21

M13M21M15W21

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-10-30-40

-50

-10-30

-10-10

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-10-30

-30

-10-20-70-70-80

-20-30

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69 Reidy, AlanFoley, Christine W16Richardson, Gordon WHO M13Goodwin. John CBCO'Brlen, Donal DLSO M15Oulnn, S. 7 FARFoley, AlanPolley. GrahamCawley. D. 7 FARArmstrong, Llam 7 FARO'Brien, Jim

80 Costigan, IanWhelan,A.Spellman, Barry M16Denl, ConO( SET Ml0MoGrath, Rhona 3Roo Wl0Birch, E~een OPC 95 W21Giles, Claran CBC M16King, Stephen CBC M16Mangan, Clodagh, Ben & NlokSET

89 Cook", B & Ryan, J GEN M12Ward, Andr"w OPC 95 M19Flynn, Claran DlSO M12Morley, Carmel OPC 95 W21Wren, Michael AJAX M12Colleran, V"ronlca W21Bent, Calli n SET W45Higgins, Maura SET W50Kellel1. Mlok GEN W55Clarke, R 7 FAR M21Dignan, Owane 7 FARSw"eney, George CNOC M35

101 David? cacDolon, Mathew OPC 95 M21Bele, A. GEN M 12Earle, Richard & JohnKelly, M.Nolen, Malhew CBC

107 Lawrence, Francie AJAXLalor, Nlamh GENDunne, Thomas OPCO'Boyte, Nlamh CNOCColton, Kefth WHOConlon, I.

113 DuNy, Adrian CBCFlynn, Paul escWlkln, Kieran cacNolan, Andrew DLSOMcDonald, Lizzie AJAXBuller, Toni 3RooGarteld,

120 Paddy & PaulWalsh, StephenFinlay, J.P.

123 Hughes, MTynan, M.MoNelM,D

126 Buick. SarmudKelly, VKelly, Alison & John

129 Allman. Niamh OPC 95 W21130 Cos,Darron WHO M14

Poole, Ivan WHO M13Johnslon, Alan WOO MISWatt,A. WO M15

134 Ca", Emma-Jane WHS W13135 Mullen,lan CBC M16

Cogavln, Tony CBC M16Byrne, Bemard 2FMGaul, Dylan DlSOMoCormeck. F. CNOC

140 MoClave, Tim DlSOClancy, David CNOe

142 Kealing, Dermol143 Scanlon

Q'Gorman, Tomlafferty, FO'Boyle. SKidney. LlamByrne, GO'Shea, SBonar law, Andrew GENMackey, Jonathan 3RooGlanville, E asocMcKenna, A.M. AJAXSIa«ery, TrevOf CNOCFrancis. John

1.3 Flood, M CNOC14 Jennings, Michael CNOC15 Buller, P aaoc16 Cleary, Trlna 3ROC

Short, Don CNOCFiI~erald, Timmy CNOC

19 Walsh, Marlin CNOCLynam, Joss 3ROCDoody, Slephen NY

22 Garrahan, Brendan OPC 95O'Grady, Brian OPC 9'5

24 MoGral.h, John 3RooSpire, SlephenN Sh IIleabh n, Alne 3ROCDoherty, B

29 ChaHleid. GeraldineoK hler, Janos WORolhery, S. 3RooMurphy, Bill

33 O'Hara, A. AJAXCrowley, Miriam OPC 9SHolohan, RaymondGarrahan. Gerard OPO 95Healy, Susan GENHealy, Mary GENHealy, David GENLore n NSCByrne, Tommy

42 Mackey, TimGarlandLalor, NoraRigney, RonanDawson, F.Moran, S.Walsh, MaireKennelly. NellByrne-Ba«, Gregory WHOAlkinson, Jackie SETMcKay, Peter ORCGreene, B. DLSODoyle, CliveGore, C laranKeane, Tom

58 Dinneen. JoanMenzies. OIWynBuller, MichaelKennedy, D.S.Catch love, R.Finnegan. EricWoods, Pat

65 Finlay, MarkMolloy, DaveScott, JohnSheridan, Audrey

AJAX

DLSO

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M25M50M12

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M16M16

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M14M55M14

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-10

-10-30-50-70-120·160-180

-30-60-60

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144 Delaney. William CNOC 120 -180 .OQ 28 Heale. David 3ROC .JJI 420 -10 410

145 Mac Calhan. Uam 190 -280 -90 29 O'Colmeln. 0 GEN M45 400 400

146 Gallagher, Joe OPC95. M35 120 -220 -100 30 Jeilreys. David WHO M17 390 390

Edgeworth. Ross CBC MIS 130 -230 -100 Green. Arthur SET M21 390 390

148 KeRy. M. GEN 90 -200 -110 Lynam. Rulh CNOC W40 410 -20 390

Brady. Barry CBC M16 120 -230 -110 33 Cormack, Nick CNOC M21 590 -210 380

ISO Boyle. Robert M13 100 -230 -130 34 Cox. Alan 3ROC M21 760 -390 370

151 Keogh, D. 210 -370 -160 35 Norton. R. 3ROC M55 390 -30 360

152 Eustace. Ben M9 100 -290 -190 36 Quinn, D. GEN M40 340 340

Davitt. Tom M9 100 -290 -190 EIlIoI, GOfdon 3ROC M21 350 -10 340

Eustace. Zach M6 100 -290 -190 38 Butler. Gerard 3ROC M15 320 320

155 O'Neill. Mary W21 100 -300 ·200 39 Brooks. David 3ROC M50 300 300

156 Kinsella. Darryl 110 -430 -320 40 C-Crawford, L. 3ROC M13 330 -30 300

157 NICholleain. Deirdre W21 110 -440 -330 41 Orion. Antoine WHO MIS 270 270

Ag .... Mary 110 -440 ·330 Phillips. Nina UCDO W21 270 270

Malone, Carol 110 -440 -330 Bell. John MIS 270 270

160 Devoy, J 7 FAR SO -400 -350 44 Ryan. Aidan AJAX M35 350 -90 260

161 Magee. Claran 130 -490 ·360 45 Masterson. David WHO M17 250 250

162 Crlbbln 140 -660 -420 Dunne. Eoin 3ROC M21 2SO 250

163 Downey Clan 140 -570 -430 47 Dorrepaat, Rudie SET M35 240 240

164 Byrne. G. 7 FAA 200 -860 -660 Fltzslmms, J. 3ROC M45 290 -50 240

49 Fisher. Z.F. WHO M13 210 210

Capper. J. WHO MIS 210 210

{21!1.1l2t eY.llm ~2Il1C2110 51 Masterson, J. WHO MIS 190 190

McGrath. Brendan M46 3ROC 2S0 ·30 2SO O·Colmaln. M. GEN W40 190 190

Austin, Louise W13 WHO 170 170 53 O·Nelll.W.J. SET MSO 170 170

Cobum.l WO ISO 150 64 O'Neill, F. SET W45 150 -20 130

Horan. Jacqule W21 AJAX 140 140 McGinley, amon M21 270 -140 130

Breslin, B 120 Cronin. 56 Hutchinson, N. W21 100 100

Susan 110 110 Ryan, Kieran M21 420 -320 100

Ennis. Bill M21 170 -60 110 58 Power. Audrey CCS 260. ·280 -20

Byrne. J. 7 FAR 140 ·30 no Naughton. L. W40 3AOC 200 ·220 ·20

Brennan, Gerard 140 ·40 100 60 Kelly, Sue W21 CCS 100 ·170 ·70

O'Sulllvnn. F 100 ·10 90 61 Inglis, H&J GEN 500 ·15S0 ·1080

Richardson, A. MIS WHO 90 90

lynch 120 ·80 40 nlo John McCullough M40 3ROC 760 ·30 730

Glb,Alan M19 OPC9S 50 ·10 40

Beattie. Anna Wesley 140 ·110 30 VETERAN HOME INTERNATIONALLynch, John 80 ·110 ·30

Byrne, Roger 80 ·110 ·30 1995Connors, Mlck M14 AJAX 20 ·120 ·100 Advance Information:Ivory. Mark 7 FAR 110 ·260 ·ISO

eyr/Ie. G.A. 170 ·400 ·230

Clanen. Elizabath 100 -430 ·330 DAY 1: Saturday 14th October.McGuinn, Theresa 120 ·930 ·810

Keogh, An~a 110 ·920 ·S10 Individual race (incorporated into National

long (70 mins)Event) at Glendye, 22 miles from

1 Kernan, Peter AJAX M2t 760 -30 730 Aberdeen.2 McDonald. Kieran AJAX M40 720 720

3 O'Brien, Brendan AJAX 710 710DAY 2: Sunday 15th October.4 Bell, Brian GEN M40 680 680 Relay

Cashin, D. AJAX M35 680 sao race at Potarch, 24 miles from Aberdeen.Doherty, Gavan M21 720 ·40 680

7 Brady, Gerry CORKO M21 670 670

Gargan, Peter AJAX M40 670 670 All teams will be staying together in9 Reidy, Oenis AJAX M40 740 ·SO 660 Aberdeen Youth Hostel, where the teams10 O'Keette, M. Fingal M21 650 -10 640

11 Wan. Jane GEN W40 600 .1'0 590 and officials have exclusive use of the12 Mc Donald, W. AJAX M18 5S0 580 100+ beds for Friday and Saturday nights.

de Liley, Atan AJAX MIS 5S0 5S0

O'Keeffe, Tom CNOC M35 GOO -20 5S0 Breakfast materials will be provided forGeoghegan, Marcus AJAX M21 760 -1S0 5S0 both mornings. There will be places for

16 Tottenham, Tim 3ROC M19 550 550

17 lynch, Shane WHO MIS 530 530 Reserves.18 Donovan. leo AJAX M21 510 510

Lalor, Joe GEN M40 510 510

O'Hara, M. AJAX M40 640 ·30 510 Saturday night's International Dinner willTracy, Declan 3ROC M21 570 ·60 510 be at the Old Mill Inn, Maryculter (about

22 O'Neill, Mark UCDO M21 500 SOO23 Gray,J 3ROC M45 450 4SO six miles SW of Aberdeen, 20 minutes24 Ftanagan, Jo..n W21 480 ·50 430 drive from the Youth Hostel).25 Ryan, Joseph 3ROC MIS 420 420

Burtertield. Nick GEN M21 420 420

Garrett, Robart 3ROC M4S 580 ·160 420 Frank Cunnane.

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BROWN COURSE· 9.6 Km

CURRAGH 04 DEC 1994

BLUE COURSE

C ROTHERY .~JAX M21 ·IS 30M.GEOGHEGAN AJAX M2) 5039D REIDY ECO M40 5057J.McCULLOUGH 3ROC M~O 5253B 0 BRIEN AJAX 5J34S.O BOYLE CNOC M35 5605T.OGORMAN CNOC M21 57 15K.MCDONALD AJAX M35 5946P.GARGAN AJAX M40 6212B.BELL GEN M40 63.59G.BRADY . COR.KO M21 64.26N.CORMACK CNOC M21 68.15M.OHARA AJAX M40 69.25V,JONES FfNGAL M35 7043G.BYRNE CNOC M21 87.12K.BYRNE 92.41I DNF

LIGHT GREENA.DRION WHO M13 46.07B HOLLfNGSHEAD 3ROC MS5 55.57E.LAWRENCE WHO WI7 59.38R.CARBERY CNOe MIS 61.32R.BARRY GEN MIS 68.05A,LAWRENCE WHO W45 69.01L.O'HARA AJAX MIS 70.44C.CAREY 3ROC W35 70.55E.LAWRENCE WHO M55 70.58N.LALOR GEN W40 80.04CWALSH JROC W50 81.54G.BUTLER JROC MI3 83.15Z FOLEY FISHER \'I}IO MIJ 88.55

IJ BUTLER JROC W45 89.24,F.O'NEILL SET W45 9428IV MURTAGH 3ROC WSO 108.49

ROGORMA~ OWC yl19 4901W ~lcDONALD AJAX MIS SO23ADeLACY AJA...X MIS S2.59TTOTTENHAM 3ROC MIS 55 16M.O NEILL UCDO M21 57.23J DELACY AJAX M40 58.06N.C-CRAWFORD JROC MSO 5840M.FLYNN CORKO M21 59.59G.BYRNE CNOC M50 60.18D.QUTNN GEN M40 60.39T.McCORMACK GEN 60.45A.OMULLANE GEN M21 61.24T,JOYCE FUCCO M21 61.54P.VAN KAMPEN UCDO M21 62.16RKAVANAGH CORKO M21 62.36S.LYNCH WHO MIS 6420H.INGUS GEN MSO 64.48A.COX 3ROC M21 65.37P.KEELY AJAX M21 6630JWATT ' GEN W40 66.34M.NOWLAN 3ROC W45 70.02U.OCOLMAJN GEN WI5 70.51N.NiCHOITIR CORKO W21 72.03R.GARRETT 3ROC M40 72.05TMcGRATH 3Roe M50 73.09R.LYNAM CNOC W40 73.51R.WHlTE SET W21 7607J.LALOR GEN M40 7830M.SHEEHAN FUCCO 78,24D.HEAHE 3ROC M21 80.54GELLIOTT 3ROC M21 8514lBUTLER ueDO M21 85.28B.MAGUIRE UCDO M21 86.19D.OMURCHU CNOC M40 8944D.SHORT CNOC M35 96.01E.O BRlAIN FINGAL MSO 112.04

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OREE'I COURSE

8 ~fcGRATH 3ROC "'4) 36 ~6

P ~fcCORMi\eK OEN 1-no )636

ID/EFFREYS WHO MI) )90)

ie DLINLOP SET M)) 42))

8 eRr."''' ) ROC M21 4) 08

'I DOWLINO uco o M21 4) 27

C O'DONOGHUE UCDO M21 4543A BONAALAW GEN. M60 4601

NCOlLOM DUO M60 471)

PBVTLER )ROC M4S 472)

MO'HANLON AJAX W21 4956

B WHELAN FIN Mll )0 )1

PCASEY UCDO MI9 5041

ACLAJUCE feD Mll 5106

A.BOYLE ueD Mll 5121

A.TOrn;NWoM )ROC W40 )14)

S.MU'RRAY SET M4) 51 56

N PHlLLlPS UCDO WI9 5259

EHUME FERMO M4S 53.04

D.O'DONOHAILLE DUO MI9 53.24

JO'BRIEN AJAX MAS 5334

YJiARRINOTON SET W21 53.31

o BARRY OEN M40 54.01

F.WHlTE SET W60 54.35

o O'COLMAIN OEN M45 5502

R.DORREPML SET MJS SS 31

MBVTLER )ROC M.SO 5551

JO'NEILl. FIN W45 5601

W McCORMACK <lEN WlS 5621

A.COYNE CNOC MI9 "11MHIGGINS SET WSO S7l2

o BROOKS 3ROC M50 57.55

lMU'RRAY OEN Mll 51,07

IlRiONEY CNOC MlS 61.l1

CMURPHY CDAC M21 6127

A NISU1LLEABKAlN JIlOC WAO 6701

o WA'" OEN M4S 68.13

KMU'RRAY M21 7528

PDOOO OEN M35 75 J2

S KULLDORFF SET M65 75.33

PHIlYAN OEN M40 II 5l

VFI.LOW COURSE ORlt C~LltSE

8 fOLEY FISHER px.'1 2J29 I McORATH JROC Mll 2J 591

It SHORES C~OC .\15 2532 M "'lIYTE 2.... "

I POOLE WHO Mil lis} THEOARTV ::.. 49

N LAlOR OfS WIO 28)9 POHARA A)AX Mil )7 56

C ~IEEHAN C~OC WII 2901 S BUTLER C~OC WII 4818

S)oIOWLAN )ROC WII )001 C OUTLER cr-:oc 4821

DARRON WHO Mil 1052 N FOLEY FISHER PXN MAO SO46

~IOORES CI'OC 11 46 I TUCKER MIO 5111

!'i l.EE JROC l221 D.O·ORlEN DLSO Mil 5845

N FOLEV FISHER PXN 32 24 A STEPHENS STM WIl 6601

~IOORES CI'OC )144 ) SCO". WHO MI5 6943

A OELL GEN lJ)1 o O'KELLY 7012

PAMElA S,M WII l4 01 A BROWNE CNOC 7016

T 8ENNE". 5,M l4.11 o BROWNE CNOC 70 l5

:NO'BOYLE CNOC Wl0 )62l TMEEHAN CNOC Mil 71 05

S0'80VLE CNOC M1 l627 WNUQIlNT CNOC 71 )5

JV.NNO DUO M21 l6l5 80REENE DLSO Mil 72.41

MDELANEY SIM WII 31 01 o IIEALY CNOC WII 7321l

8 PENDLETON DUO M19 ll.36 A ORAn-1E WOC WI5 75 )I

r COSTIOAN DlSO MIl 49.09 ).O'NEllL CNOC WII 7l.ll

R.McORA T1i lROC Wl0 51 54 I.COURNANI! DUO WI9 89.5.8

LKUMPHRlE5 SIM WII 56.56 R.EARlE lROC MI2 91.06

S SAlTER S,M WIO 59.21 o McCANN MIO 91 13

C BlfI1.ER CNOC W9 5924 K.COLWELL WHO Mil 99 53

S 8lJ11.E1l CNOC W45 5951 DELLIS 105 l7

C SALTER 6001 o COLEMAN MI2 1442l

DOAUL DLSO MIl 6) II

T McCLAK.E PLSA Mil sr u1l80WF£LL DUO W21 ss.n RED COl.ltSE • 9 Km

V.O'DWYER 0lS M9 65 sa

M. M.BENNE". S,M 6716L C·CRAWfORD IROC Mil H 50

DUO W21 68.01IINOLIS OEN W40 5640

I RUPPEL ROCO~WNM O'HARA AJAX M9 61.l7

OE:>' ~113 68 16

AJAX W6 6857I FRANCIS 7FAR M)5 6842

K 011ARA Ii ASAMO5 )IAYOEN 6957

WHO ~121 72 195, M WI3 A 10HNSTON

LOLENNON SIM WIl 6958 WOC MIS 74 04

EAlLEY S,M Wll 71 S9 o PRICHARD WOC MIS 7409

l~FLETCHER ""liD Mil 81 12 OCARROLL MI7 74 II

1 KERR WHO MIl 12 41 o DEACON MI9 7622MOCOLMAlN OIlN W40 77.54o BROWNE CNOC 8026A.WA'" woc MIS 91 5lMPROCTER WOC MIS 10051T.MURMY UCDO 101.36ECOGHLAN UCDO 10) SOC.CURMN WI9 110.21MFAHERTY WI9 1I02lK CARTWRIOHT 110.25K.NiRlORDAIN WI9 110.27COUOHLAN 11700mOMAS

I. McELWAIN UCDO WI9 117.22R.FlSHER UCDO 119.24).COUNIHAN 124.41OCONNOR 12612FOGARTYN1YATES UCDO 156004DNF

THREE ROCK ORIENTEERING CLUB - PHOENIX PARK EVENT - 11/12-02-95

NIGHT COURSE - LONG .) 9.2km 15 J.Rowc M35 FIN 40:37Name Class Club Time 16 K.Burtcusbaw M21 40:55

1 D.Reidy M40 AJAX ol:19 17 H.Whitc M50 3ROC 41:092 l.MacNcill M40 3ROC 74:22 18 M.Nowlan W45 3ROC 41:34

P.Smith M21 DNF 19 S. Murray M45 SET 43:55D.O'Meara DNF 20 S.Rothery M65 3ROC 45;03J.Keating DNF 21 J.Dore MI9 46;43

NIGHT COURSE - MEDIUM 5.3km 22 A.Sonar-Law 46;591 P.Brennan M21 SET 38;05 23 A.Tottenham W40 3ROC 47:242 P.Butier M45 3ROC 42:47 24 Y. Harrington W21 SET 47:393 A.Cox Mll 3ROC 45:45 25 L.0 'hAJmhain 48:184 RLynam W35 CNOC 45;52 26 C. Thornhill WI5 GEN 49:055 A.Green M21 SET 46:55 27 M. Maguire FIN 50:076 C.Mc Donagh M2t, 53:35 28 C.Walsh W50 3ROC 50:297 E.McGinley M21 57:05 29 C.Carroli M60 3ROC 53:268 N.O'Hara M21 CNOC 58:25 30 C.CUJ'T1IlI& K.O'Riordan &. K.Cartwright 55:019 A.Co)ne Mll CNOC 61:40 31 S.Byme 56:0110 C.Carroll M60 3ROC 63:10 32 P.H.Ryan M40 GEN 57:3011 B.McCluskey & K.Ryan W21 3ROC 63:18 33 J.Lynam M70 3ROC 57:3412 H.Maclnerncy & J. Barrett CNOC 63:42 34 1.0'Mara MIO 3ROC 57:5013 T.Mc NaUy 63:58 35 S.Shine& B.Ennis 58:0714 M.Kellett MS5 GEN 64:47 36 D.Carroll 58:4715 A.Beattic WO 73:34 37 S.Devlin & T.Devlin MIO GEN 64:2316 K.Murray M3S GEN 74:26 38 M.O'Donoghue Celbridge 65:0817 P.Dodd M35 GEN 74:34 39 J.Loughman 65:1018 Wesley. 0 W.O. 90:13 40 M.Fahcrty & G.Harpur WI9 ClRd 71:0219 R.Bateson & A.Mackey & M. Naughton 91:07 41 R.Ryan M21 75:25

J.P.T.Connolly DNF 42 B.Madigan & M.Conway & L.Staines 80:30J.Gray M45 3ROC DNP7 43 Roebuck 3ROC 80:44

NIGHT COURSE - SHORT 3.3km 44 Roebuck 3ROC 87:54I A.Tottenham W40 3ROC 33:53 45 G.Lavery Celbridge 88:372 L.Naughton W40 3ROC 42:10 46 L.Annstrong & C.Burns 89:353 P.Neeson 52:49 47 P.Larragey & A.O·Leary 93:484 Ju.Butler W45 3ROC 56:00 D.O·Brien MI3 DLSO DNF5 T.Gray & G.Gray M13/15 3ROC 56:31 D.Heussaff DNP76 G.Flanagan & F.Scott 57:06 B.Green DLSO DNF1 A.Byrne &. J.Kcaly 59:12 }.P.T.Connolly DNP4.68 A. Reidy 59:13 COURSE A 1l.3km 22 Controls9 G.Martin &J.Gallagbcr 59:52 I B.O'Bricn AJAX 61:24

J. & B. Morgan DNF 2 A.Cox M21 3ROC 65:31Ciara & Siobhan DNF 3 T.Callery M21 UCDO 67:38Jenny & Cindy DNF 4 T.O'Gorman M21 CNOC 68:07

COURSEC S.6km 11 Controls 5 W.Young M40 CNOC 69:59I T.Lucey M40 BOC 33:02 6 W.Carter M21 72:222 S.DoorJy M35 UCDO 34:12 7 P.Healy M40 CNOC 73:003 G.Buller MI5 3ROC 35:13 8 H.lnglis M50 GEN 73:464 1.Gray M45 3ROC 35:32 9 P.Smyth M21 75:275 D.Nagle W45 3ROC 36:13 10 K.Grogan M40 CNOC 82;356 B.Buckley M50 SET 37:29 12 B.Mc Cluskey & K.Ryan 3ROC 94: 187 A.Coyne M21 CNOC 37:31 II P.Callery M21 UCDO 95:358 P.O'Meara 37:50 13 J.Keatinge 96:209 Lf'rancis M35 37:59 14 J.Coxon 97:3610 P.Keely Mll AJAX 38;07 IS E.O'Briain M50 FING 106: 15II B.McGrath M45 3ROC 39:26 16 R.Dorrcpaal M35 SET 108:4312 Connolly M35 ECO 40:10 17 C.McDonagh M21 109:0813 F.Ryan 40:15 18 Inglis W40 GEN 111:4614 A.Green M21 SET 40:32 19 O'Boyle CNOC DNF

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COURSED ) 4.0km 8 Controls J:!inQtllonient:eep) ~t'bgi11a:n ~cmcgltc Sunday, February 5, 1995COURSE B 7.0km 14 Controls

26:413ROC 41:39 I M.O·Conneli Course A Course B 65 D. McCarthy & Co. . 126:08

I T.Tottenham Ml8MIS 3ROC 2&:00 23 Controls 6.9k 14 Controls 3.8k 66 J. Dunphy 143:58

2 D.Quinn GEN 4522 2 G.Gray29:573 F.O'Hanlon W21 AJAX _.

3 D.Tracy M21 3ROC 45:413ROC 31:57 Name Class Club Time Name Class Club Time

3ROC 46:52 4 A.Ni Shuilleabhan W45 B. O'Brien M21 AJAX 40:39 1 B. Dolan M21 CNOC28:88R.Norton M55 '1447:15 5 E.O·Neili WI4 3ROC 33:54 2 K. McDonald M40 AJAX 45:35 2 J. Fitzsimons M45 3ROC 31:18P.Bulier M45 3ROC5

6 A.Dowling W21 UCDO 41!48 3 P. Smyth M21 45:40 3 D. Brooks MSO 3ROC 31:35 Course C6 R.Garrett M45 3ROC 47:43

43:06 '4 P. Healy M40 CNOC45:56 4 A. Dolan M21 CNOC.35:20 9 Controls 2.1 k7 C.Dunlop M60 SET 48:26 7 G.Clements

5 D. Quinn M40 GEN 52:27 5 K. Lynch M19 uc0037:548 M.Donaghy 43:56& D.Heale M21 3ROC 51:25

48:00 6 M.O'Neili M21 UCD052:29 6 J. Garvey M21 TCD 39:56 Neme Class Club Time9 B.Thomas 51:35 9 C.Durnin,L.GuerinlS.Cunningham 7 R. Kavanagh M21 CORK53:30 7 A. Nf ShIlilleabhain W45 3ROC 41 :05

52:36 10 M.Curley W21 FIN 49:35 e W. McDonald M18 AJAX 54:33 8 D. Allen UCD 41:59 1 A. Bell M12 GEN 19:31L.C.Cra ....ford MI3 3ROC10II D.O'Conneli W21 50:05 9 B. Maguire M21 UCD054:33 9 Sgt. Woods M 7FAR 42:13 2 E. Carroll MI5 22:57II R.Lynam W35 CNOC 55:19

56:09 12 G.Fitzgerald 3ROC 51:26 10 T. Tottenham M18 3ROC55:12 10 T. Maher M 42:29 3 L. Macken W 24:0012 E.Mc Ginley M21 II J. Francis M35 7FAR 56:05 110.Joig DUO 44:56 4 S. Roche W 24:00J.Fitz & Co 54:0513 D.Hickey M35 ECO 56:47 IJ

55:32 12 D. Wickham M21 AJAX 56:20 12 D. Magee 3ROC 45:35 5 S. O'Sullivan M15 25:1814 A.Morrissey 56:58 14 1st Navan E

56:08 13 P. Van Kampen M21 UCD056:34 13D.Dlgnam M 7FAR 46:13 6 D. Bell W10 GEN 27:3057:51 15 V.Murtagh W50 3ROC 14 C. Dunlop M60 SET 57:08 14 W. Kelly M19 7FAR 46:26 7 C. Keane M13 31:1815 J.Davis

16 1st Navan A 56:18 15 E. Glanville W21 3ROC57:40 15 L. Lord MI4 FIN 47:28 8 K. O'Dowda M 31:1816 M.Butler M50 3ROC 5&:1617 S.O'Caolai GSIC 58:13 16 K. Grogan M40 CNOC59:40 16 M. O'Colmain W40 GEN 47:30 9 K. Denny M13 33:29

17 M.Kellett M55 GEN 59:20GSIC 58:27 11 C. Clarke 7FAR 61:00 17 A. Hanlon 7FAR 47:30 lOA. & E. Francis W13 UIA 33:36

18 S.Kuldorff M65 SET 67:21 18 L.Fionnagain58:41 18 ,A.Ayling M21 DUO 62:03 18 F. Dawson 7FAR 48:13 II M. Friel WIO FIN 35:39

19 E.Dalby 3ROC 69:29 19 N.KcllyGSIC 59:29 19 D. O'MurchU M45 CNOC63:00 19 E.Qulll M15 FIN 49:57 12 F. Flood M FIN 36:38

91:05 20 A.Mac Carthaigh 20 R. Lynam W35 CNOC63:00 20 E. Barrett 50:00 13 R. Flood W8 FIN 36:3820 Kelly21 Navan OAP CBSI 61:08 2'1 D. O'Donghalie M20 DUO 63:16 21 D. Crawley 7FAR 51:32 14 Niamh 39:28125:3121 E.Clancy & M.Clancy

DNF 22 R. Ni Bhroin GSIC 62:30 22 N. Smyth M35 FIN 64:17 22 Devoy 7FAR 51:42 15 A. Quinn W 39:39M.Higgins W50 SETOSIC 63:06 23 J. Lator M40 GEN 64:54 23 T. Gray M13 3ROC 51:55 16R.Linn M 41:12

COURSE E 2.4km 7 Controls 23 K.D ....yer63:08 24 D. Short M35 CNOC65:53 24 N. Lalor W40 GEN 52:14 17 N. Lalor WI2 GEN 42:39

I S. Lucey WI2 BOC 33:26 24 S.Mitcheli 25 N. Phillips W21 UCD066:55 25 H. Maclnemey W35 CNOC 52:27 18 E. Friel W FIN 44:2236:59 25 S.Mooncy GSIC 63:09 26 P. Lord M45 FIN 67:04 26 J. Newman M12 CNOC52:27 ts S. Casement W 50:192 S. Lyons

WI2 CNOC 36:58 26 K.Flood GSIC 63:20 21 A. Green M21 SET 67:41 27 K. Flannagan 52:29 20 J. Cullan W 50:193 J.Lyons27 S.Brunkard GSIC 64:02 28 G. Butler M15 3AOC68:36 28 E. Coughlan W21 54:20 21 E. Corrigan W 50:194 H.Young WII CNOC 37:01

GSIC 64:03 29 J. Gray M45 3ROC69:05 29 R. Fisher W21 UCD054:20 22 A. Maguire W13 FIN 50:195 S.Doherty WIO CNOC 37:08 28 Jessica Ni B

30 'C. O'Mara M35 3ROC69:58 30 R. O'Colmain MI3 GEN 55:56 23 A. Short M6 CNOC 57:251st Navan C 65:266 ? 37:23 29 3iI M. NiCoitir W21 CORK70:28 31 D. O'Colmain W45 GEN 56:10 24 M. Kelly 64:00GSIC 68:077 K.Louglunan 38:46 30 C.Mc Dornnaill 32 J. Coxon M21 71:27 32 E. Keman W21 AJAX 61:30 25 J. Grennell W14 65:16

M5 CNOC 38:55 31 E.O'Cuiliinn & R.Gmy GSIC 68:40 33 p. Batt M21 73:43 33 W.J. O'Neill MOO SET 62:06 26 E. O'Halloran W13 65:168 R.Sho!132 D.Ni Laighleis GSIC 69:41 34 N. Maguire M17 FIN 76:30 34 Barry . 63:05 27 A. Cullen W FIN 70:16WI2 CNOe 40:189 R.~uMingham33 P. Me Connell 70:18 35 M. Maguire M17 FIN 78:27 35 B. Sharkey W21 FIN 64:44 28 B. Murray M 75:4440:1910 M.Cullen

T.Butler W50 3ROC 73:24 36 J. Leona/d M21 DUO 78:40 36 F, O'Neill W45 66:26 29 F. Smyth M 75:55II R.Mc Grath WIO 3ROC 46:22 34 37 S. Kultdof M6S SET 78:55 37 K. Denny M13 67:12 30 V. Gaffney W 116:33

46:24 35 C.Flynn MI2 DLSO 73:41 38:'Ranno M21 DUO 79:13 38 V. Murtagh WOO 3ROC 68:0412 S.Kelly36 Edenderry IGG 76:39 39 S.'Hollinshead 3AOC80:54 39 K. Murray M35 GEN 69:17 Planner. Jean O'Neill13 A.Kelly 47:34 M55

FIN 49:10 37 1st Navan B 85: 10 4Q E. ·O'Briain FIN 84:25 40 H. Moloney 69:32 Organ·iser. FrankAood14 A.Maguire38 lst Navan D Ul5 cos: 91: 1<) 41'~. Butler MSO 3ROC84:25 41 J. Lord W45 AN 71:21 Controller: Gerry Smyth55:2015 S.Casemenl39 Susan, Elizabeth & Denise 103:50 42 T.O'Nelll 84:44 42 M. Flynn W21 71:03

16 StiUorgan Clare 63:50DNF7.8 43 P. Dodd M35 GEN 86:22 43 K. Forde M21 71:03 Thanks to all our members' who helped out

17 C.Ryan 69:17 S.Carroli ~~ M.Galligan 88:11 44 G. Moynihan TCD 72:39 and all those who took part on the day.Louise. Aldine, Olwen & Sarah WI4 73:27 l.Costigen MI3 DLSO DNF 45' J. Moore 88:22 45 L. Kennedy DO 72:3918

84:58 A.Nolan MI2 DLSO DNf 4~ A. Tottenham W40 3AOC 89:24 46 R. O'Connell M21 AN 75:3519 L.PeppardWallace DNF 47,C. Morrison W21 AJAX 94:44 47 M. Curley W21 FIN 76:34Carroll Family 122:0320L.Hall & M.Cox DNF 48. M. Higgins W50 SET 99:20 48 J. Quirke W14 82:54

Wendy, Bernard DNF4 4,~M.Gannon 140:10 49 F. Macken W14 82:54DNF5,6 Stillorgan Guides DNF

C.Thomas DNF 50 P. Grilfith M CD 140:30 50 T. MoCarthy M16 82:54L.Hall & M.Col( DNF A.Murray WIO GEN T. Cotter M FUCCODNF 51 Coleman 83:30Stillorgan Guides DNF D.Moliin W17 DNF 52 C. Fehy M21 FIN 83:36

DNF W.Carter M21 DNF 53 WA WOO 89:40A.Murray WIO GEN C. Lacy CD DNF 54 T. BUller 3ROC 90:55J. Healy M DNF 55 Scouts 91:18

56 J. O'Leata 93:0257 J. Mullen W60 93:08

PLANNER: John Me Cullougb Manv thanks as usual 10 all who helped. If you arc a 58 D. O'Connell W21 FIN 94:41member of3ROC and didn't help at the Phoenix Park 59 D. Earley 95:16perhaps you should offer to help at Clara on March 261h or 60 Fiona & April 95:16

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Kinnitty, Co. Ollaly. CNOC LL 10. GR N 21 05.Killarney, Co. Kerry. BVOC ML4. GR V 97 85.Harrogate, Yorkshire.Kilfinnane. Entries to Ballyhoura Country Holidays, Kilfinnane,Co. Umerick.Co. Waterford. WatO.Rostrevor, Co. Down. NI Series 2. LVO. GR J 1917.near Killorglin, Co. Kerry. KO. KSL5. GR V 730898.Co. Westmeath, near Oldcastle. Setanta event. GR N 47 78.Poulgorm Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry. Entries to Sheila Muckian, 13Elmvale Close, Wilton, Cork (021-343384).

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MUCKROSS Killarney, Co. Kerry. KO event. GR V 9785.CAIRN WOOD Dundonald, Co. Down. LVO sprint-O/CATI. GRJ 4576.CRAG WOOD Killaloe, Co. Clare. ThO. ML5. GR R 687761.BOF National Event 3 Winterford & Blackheath, near Aldershot.ROCKMARSHALL Dundalk, Co. Louth. Fingal OC. LL 11.DONADEA Clane, Co. Kildare. CNOC. GR N 8333. Start 6-7 pm.BINEVINAGH Limavady, Co. Derry. NWOC. NI Series 3. GR C 69 30.BANNA STRAND Ardfert, Co. Kerry. KO. ML6. GR 0753222.TROOPERSTOWN Laragh, Co. Wicklow. GEN. LL 12 .. GR T 1697.BALLYSCANLON Fenor, Co. Waterford. 6-7.30 pm. Be Active, Be Alive.HOLLYWOOD Co. Wicklow. CNOC. &7 pm. (changed from Russborough)CASTLEWELLAN Co. Down. LVO sprint-O. GR J 32 37.LEINSTER CHAMPIONSHIPS Carllngford, Co. Louth. 3ROC. Entries to Ian MacNeill, 7 Taney

Lawn, Dublin 14. Credit card entries accepted.CURRAGH Co. Kildare. CNOC. 6-7 pm. GR N 2912.KILSHEELAN Co. Tipperary. WatO. 6-7.30 start.COMERAGH CHALLENGE Two-daymountain marathon, Clonmel. Details (romPat Healy,

Cut Bush, Curragh, Co. Kildare (045-41625)SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIPS Dunalastalr, near Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire.Veteran World Cup St. Petersburg (to June 2)FARRAN FOREST PARK Ovens, Co. Cork. Cork 0 Inter-Firm 1. 5.30-7.30. GR W 4871.WOODENBOLEY Hollywood, Co. Wicklow. CNOC (LE) 6-7 pm. GR N 9301.

FLORENCECOURT Co. Fermanagh. FermO. NI series 4. GR H 1733.CONNACHTCHAMPIONSHIPS Manorhamllton Co. Leitrim. Entry form enclosed.CONNACHT RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS Manorhamllton Co. Leitrim.CURRABINNY Carrigaline, Co. Cork. CorkO. IFL2. 5.30-7.30. GR W 7962.DONADEA Clane, Co. Kildare. CNOC. GR N 8333. Start 6-7 pm.GOSFORD Markethill, Co. Armagh. LVO sprint-O/CATI. GR H 97 40.HARVESTER TROPHY Overnight relay for teams of 7. Ludlow, England.CLARA Laragh, Co. Wicklow. 3ROC.U League 9 postponed from March.DRUMLEAGH Aherlow, Co. Tipperary. LeeO. Score event. GR R 820189.CISMMilitary World ChampIonshIps, Sakyla, Finland.CURRAGH Co. Kildare. CNOC. &7 pm. GR N 2912.DROMKEEN Innishannon, Co. Cork. CorkO.IFL3.5.30-7.30.GORTNAMOYAGH Garvagh, Co. Derry. NWOC. NI Series 5. GR C 7613.CELTIC CUP& Welsh Championships, Merthyr Mawr, S. Wales. Ireland v Wales v Cornwall.BALUNCOLUG Co. Cork. CorkO.IFL 4. Start 5.30-7.30. GR W 5971.

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Co. Wicklow. CNOC. (& BBO) 6-7 pm. GR N 94 06.Loo Bridge & Ballingeary areas, Kerry/Cork. Entries to B & M.Creedon, Mount Prospect, Douglas, Co. Cork. (021-361824).Form enclosed.Killeagh, Co. Cork. CorkO. IFL5. Start 5.30-7.30. GR W 99n.27 GlENBOWER WOOD

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WARRENSCOURT Kilmurry, Co. Cork. CorkO IFL6. 5.30-7.30 start. GR W 3867.JunIor World ChampionshIps Horsens,Denmark.CASTLEFREKE Co. Cork. LeeO. 11-2.00 pm. Clonakilty Festival event. GR

W332357.Bandon, Co. Cork. CorkO. IFL 7. 5.30-8.00 pm. GR W 5447.Midleton, Co. Cork. CorkO. IFL8. 5.30-8.00 pm. GR W 86 76.Ballinspittle, Co. Cork. CorkO. IFL9. 5.30-7.30 pm. GR W 58 44.Scottish 6·Day, Kingussie (to August 5th). Clubs have entryfonns.

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September3 IRISH ORIENTEER TROPHY FINAL Castle Bernard Kinnitty, Co. OHaly. GR N 21 05.9 SLIEVE CROOe Ballynahinch, Co. Down. NI Series 6. LVO. GR J 32 47.10 HELLFIRE WOOD Ralhfamham. Co. Dublin. SET. Come & Try it.. GR 0 1222.10 MUNSTER CHAMPIONSHIPS Kilwortl1, Co. Cork. Southern Orienteers. Pre-entry.16-17 ANDERSONS MOURNES MOUNTAIN MARATHON17 CURRABINNY Carrigaline, Co. Cork. CorkO intro event. 11-2 pm. GR W 79 62.17 PHOENIX PARK Dublin. Come & Try it event. 3ROC. GR 00934.23 NI CHAMPIONSHIPS & Junior Home International. Burren, Co. Fermanagh. GR H 0937.24 Junior Home International Relays, Necame, Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh. GR H 23 57.24 GlENBOWERWOOD Killeagh, Co. Cork. CorkO intro event 11-2 pm, GR W 9977.30 NI RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPSGosford, Markethill, Co. Armagh. LVO. GR H 97 40.30 SenIor Home Internaffonal South Wales (Relays on October 1st.)

October1 GLENDAlOUGH Co. Wicklow. 3ROC. Leinster league. GR T 11 96.1 GARRETTSTOWN Ballinspittle, Co. Cork. CorkO. League 1. 11-2 pm. GR W 5844.7 CASTlEWELLAN Co. Down. LVO. NI Series 7. GR J 32 37.7 CompassSport Cup Final Leicesterarea.10 CURAABINNV Co. Cork. Schools intro closed event. CorkO.14-15 Veteran Home International Aberdeen, Scotland.15 CURAAGH WOOD Midleton, Co. Cork. CorkO. CL2. 11·2pm. GR W 86 76.22 BELFIELD Dublin. UCDO event.22 DROMILLIHY Roscarbery, Co. Cork. CorkO. CL3. 11-2 pm. GR W 2538.28 BANAGHER Dungiven, Co. Derry. NI Series 8. NWOC. GR C 70 04.30 TRACTON Carrigaline, Co. Cork. LeeO. GR W 726567. (Monday)

KAL= Kerry Autumn League; CROCL= Connacht Regional O-Council League; KSL=Kerry SpringLeague; GS= Galtee Series; SS:: Spring Series; SEL= South East League; LL= Leinster League;ML= Munster League; NI:Northem Ireland Series; IFL:inter·firm league; GR=Ordnance Survey gridreference (explained on all OS maps), cdeclosinq date for entries. If a 6-figure grid rele rence is given itis for the car park or assembly area. If a 4-ligure reference is given it is simply to help you find thecompetition area and it means that the event organisers have not supplied the information on exactlocation.

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