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THE IRISH ORIENTEERNO.53 June - July 1991 ISSN 0790-1194

The Irish 'Orienteer is published six Limes a year and is available through all Irish orienteering clubs. All materialconcerning orienteering will be gratefully received by the editor. John McCullough. 9 Arran Road. Drumcondra,Dublin 9.

The copy dates for the forthcoming issues are:No. 54 September -October 1991No. 55 November-December 1991No. 56 January-February 1992

20 August20 October20 December

For further information on orienteering contact the Irish Orienteering Association. c/o AFAS. House of Sport. LongMile Road. Dublin 12. (01-501633/56909924 hours).

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CONTENTS

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LettersWorld Championships Update1991 rrisb Championships reportIOC Results summaryroc Winner's RouteOrienteering News sectionJK 91 review

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lOA AGM reportOrienteering FixturesLeinsier News PageA Breed Apart: Hill runningClub News pagesResults Section

Why not write something for The Irish Orienteer? News from your club or your province, whatever strikes you asinteresting? 00 an event report I The sky's the limit. Mapping. planning. juniors. organisation. competition.controlling. equipment. techniques. gadgets. profiles of people or clubs ...

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Letters

3 Bellevue Park Ave.BooterstownCo Dublin

29th April 1990

Dear Editor,

Recently. a runner died while competing in a hill race in England.She died of hypothermia.

How long before such a tragedy occurs in the Irish orienteering community?

Wiu we then be able to hide behind the empty disclaimers that appear in entry forms? -"Orienteering is an adventure sport, Competitors Lake part entirely at their own risk." - Ithink not.

As orienteers, we compete with scant regard to possible weather conditions be theyrain. sleet or snow. But hypothermia can strike the finest, the most confident of us,within minutes. should we be slowed by accident or injury.

As organisers we must plan events with safety in mind. We must not be afraid toshorten courses, insist on whistles. warm clothing and wet weather gear. We should beprepared to cancel entire events, as the organisers of the Munster Championships in Titna Spideoige so wisely did, and as the organisers of the student Champs in Killary sofoolishly didn't. with near tragic consequences.

A current television advertisement says "Sport is NOT life-and-death."

Let's keep it that way.

{J~ '-~-""~7Ross Stanley

Th, lr;rl! Orjenteer 3

Letters ...

Dear John.

30 Carrickbrack HillSuttonDublin 13

May 22. 1991

Your no~e on the purchase of oak trees from the proceeds of theAnniversary event in Tiglin. might give the mistaken impressionthat I was the prime mover in organislng the event.

[t was very much a team effort comprising Diana Large. Mike Lunt.Sean Rothery with help from the Lynams and tndcprl from most ofthe orienteers who were active way back in 1969/70:We thought the Oak Glen project was appropriate for Orienteering.Yours Sincerely.Colin DunlopSetanta

woe 91 UPDATEAs you all know the 1991 World Champion-ships take place in Czechoslovakia in August.This year for the first time a short-distanceorienteering competition will be included withthe usual individual and relay events, makingthree disciplines to be contested.

Irish Team Manager Paddy O'Brien, in his first year inthe job. has been doing great work running trainingsessions for the home-based squad members. althoughwith limited support from the squad members them-selves. Fundraising is going ahead. with the AJAXFriday evening series of five events. the TIO-organi-sed draw at the Irish Champs and the yet to comegrand raffle at the Shamrock O-Ringen (some ticketsare still available). On behalf of the squad Paddy asksall Irish orierueers to support the continuing fundrais-ing effort and thanks you all for your generous supportso far.

One organisational problem which has been elimi-nated is the need for visas for entry into Czechoslova-kia.

The Irish QrjeC!leer 4

On the team selection front the Irish squad will travelto the Carlisle area on the English/Scottish border thefirst weekend in August for two trials, run in conjunc-tion with the British selection races. Saturday will be afull-length race for Individual selection and Sunday ashort race for the woe Sprint-O,

The final selection race for the squad will be theShamrock O-Ringen at the end of June. After this theselectors will choose the reduced squad of about 12men and 12 or so women. These will then compete forthe five men's and five women's places on the team.Aonghus OClemgh has chosen not to go for the WOCteam this year, and lrish Champion Brian Corbell hasbeen injured but will hopefully regain full fitness intime for the Trials.

Some team members are expected to travel out a weekbefore the Championships for training. Supporters andspectators are invited to accompany the team (at theirown expensel): contact Faith White (044-72118) fordetails.

Sample maps have been received from the organisers.The terrain is described as being something likeMullaghmeen in Co. Westmeath but with more con-tours: rolling countryside with forested, distinct hills.

IRISH CHAMPIONSHIPS 1991April 27-28 1991

Cork DoubleBrian Corbell took his first solo Irish title

with a great run at Aherlow and was joined byCaitriona nic Mhuiris in her first win in theelite women's class at this event.Corbett has had mixed fortunes where the Irish

Championships are concerned: in 1985 at Glendal-ough he dead heated with Eoin Rothery for the ritle, in1986 he finished second by JUSt9 seconds to PeterKernan, but this year made no mistake. Brian finished31 seconds clear of Scotland's Pakit Hyman and 3.32clear of Justin May.Cairriona was second fastest in the W21Elite class.

38 seconds behind Scotland's Lorna Boyd and 54seconds clear of Deirdre ni Challanain. The W21 Eclass was very competitive this year with a goodselection of the Irish squad running for places on theWorld Championship team in August: JUSt25 secondscovered the 5th to 9th placings.Due to some meteorological peculiarity it rained on

the forest for much of the weekend while the rest ofthe country basked in sunshine. While this undoubt-edly caused problems for organiser and competitoralike it went largely unnoticed in the extensive forestof Rossadrehid unless cornpedotrs on the longercourses chose a route across the open mountainsidebelow the Galtees. AU the courses were confined tothe forest, with lots of controls to reduce the amountof road running.Planner Sean Cotter of the organising club Cork

Orienteers. celebrating their 10th anniversary thisyear, made good use of the area. utilising the mostrunnable pans of the wood fully. The fraughan cov-ered forest floor was reminiscent of Scandinavia butrunnability was quite good. at least for the longlegged! Although not the most technically difficultarea, parallel forest roads contouring through the areamet a series of steep sided gullies posing route choiceproblems all around the courses. The map, CorkOrienteers fiftieth. was another Sean Cotter produc-tion. surveyed and drawn by himself, and stands as yetanother monument to his dedication to orienteering.

NWOC, 3ROC win RelaysNext day's Relays used the same map but concen-

trared on the eastern pan visited only by the longercourses the previous day. The stan was on a steep rideand the first leg runners' mass start resembled some-thing from a battle of old. with waves of runnerscharging up the hill after one another. to fan Outfurther up the hillside. The run-in was a severe climbup the same ride and gave runners their last chance toredeem themselves with an eyeballs-out sprint finishafter maybe a mediocre run. Planner Bernard Creedonopted for three splits on each course and a road sectionpast the changeover to add spectator interest. and thisworked well. The western part of the forest mighthave made 11, more interesting area for relays, withmore features and beuer runnabiliry, even though ithad been used extensively the previous day. NorthWest OC retained the Mens Open relay title (winningthe event for the first time at an event not run by theirown club) and 3ROC retained the Women's Open title.Controversy raged at the Relays when the leading

teams in the M 13- class were found to feature girlsand were disqualified and then reinstated.The only organisational problems apparent to the

competitors were in relation to results. For the individ-ual race bar codes had been printed on labels on allcontrol cards and this led us to expect a super. hi-techresults system. The weather. combined with thedistance from results display/assembly combined toslow down the display of results at the event and thelist of prizewinners wasn't available at the event centreuntil after 9.30 that evening for an 8 pm prizegiving.At the relays it was again difficult to follow theproceedings as teams' results weren't all displayed intime order. Eventually the prize giving took place andthe winners gor a handshake from Cork Orienteers'Chairman. Eddie Hutchinson. but no trophies as theyhad been left behind at the event centre in Kilfinnane.Overall, then. another successful event for Cork

Orienteers. Staging the biggest Irish Championshipsever. with individual. relay and event centre. was amajor undertaking and one which Cork 0 did well.I'm sure all the competitors from Ireland and abroadwill join with me in congratulating them on theirefforts and in looking forward to the next ten years.

The Irish Odealefr 5

PRINCIPAL RESUL T,S MSO 1 course 4.2 kml150 m Wll(listed here for posteri(y) I Maxwell Reed FertT]O 67.12 W21B 1 Clare O'Connor Cork 0 29:34

2 Alan Pim 75.27 1 Audrey Sheridan Unatr, 62:09 2 S. 'Feehan BVOC 31.13

A course 12.3 kml400 metres climb 3 Alan Shaw ThO 77.38 2 Nora Lee 3ROC 74.26 3 Maeve O'N6i1l SET 33.47

M21 Elite class3 H, Ervine LVO 75.06

1 Brian Corbett Cork 0 94.01 F course 4.8 kml 170 m RELAY RESUL TS2 Pakit Hyman Scotland 94.32 W19 M13

3 Justin May 3ROC 97.33I Nuala Higgins UCCO 58.25 I Stephen Bogle NWOC 44.25

4 Vince Joyce 3ROC 97.48 2 Jane Wilson LVO 60.55 2 Cian Chandler CorkO 50~38 Mens Open

3 Aine de Ris AJAX 6Q.29 3 Alan de Lacy ECO 52.1"2 1 NWOC Exiles (Peter O'Hara, Peter James, James

B course 7.0 km/31S mLogue) 159.48

W21 Elite classW21A M60 2 Scotland I (Patrick Walder, D.Robenson, Pakit

1 Lorna Boyd Scotland 69.03·I Catherine lames ('WOC 53.14 1 Sven Kulldorff SET 59.37 Hyman) 160.04

2 Caitriona nic Mhuiris NWOC 69.422 Ursula McPherson 3ROC 54.02 2 Noel Morrish LeeO 60.20 3 BVOC 2 (John Feehan. David Ryan, Sean

3 Deirdre nf Challanain AJAX 70.36 3 Miriam nf Choitir Cork O· 59.45 3 Michael Hewson GEN 64.17 McSwe\!ney) 166.58

4 Eileen Loughman CNOC 74.25Women's Open

W3S W15 1 3ROC Steps (Una Creagh, Maeve McPherson,

C course 8.4 kml310 mI Jane Watt G.EN 54.27 I Sheila Convery 3ROC 49.49 Julie Cleary) 142.47

M192 Mauro Thornhill' GEN 59.05 2 M. Cooke NWOC 55.09 2 AJAX 4 (Deirdre ni Challanain, Orla Cooke.

I Peter O'Hara NWOC '66.513 Heather Johnstone LVO -68.25 3 F. Doonan 'Cork 0 60.23 Tara Horan) 154.22

2 David Ryan BVOC 68.453 Scotland 2 (Cathy Tilbrook, D,Turner, Lorna

3 John Feehan BVo.C 76.19W40 WSO Boyd) 161.57

I Monica Nowlan 3ROC 61.08 I Clare Nuttall LeeO 52.34 M17·

M21A2 Teresa Finlay FermO 61.38 2 Maura Higgins SET 57.53 I Cork 0,7 (Marcus pinker, Aidan Kellefer, Austin

I Pat O'Connor WATO 84.56 3 Win McCormack GEN 66.53 3 Diana Large GEN 63.37 White) 123.47I

2 Andy StOt! LVO 86.302 Cork 0 8 (Brian Creedon, Jeff Chandler,

3 K.0'Briel) LKOC 86.41MIS J course 2.8 kml 0 m S.Corcoran) 127.17

I David Hollinger 41.27 M21C 3 Cork 09 (S.Roche, J.Hurley, D.O'Connor)

M352 Finan Dooley CNOC 42.12 I

I J. Deegan CNOC 30.42 161.47

1 Pat Healy, CNOC 74.22 3 Patrick Feehan BVOC 46.11 M3S+

2 Liam O'Brien Cork 0 76.49W13 I .AJAX Cork Busters (Paddy O'Brien. Peter

3 Iohn MoCullough 3ROC 82.29 G course 4.3 kml 140 m I Ruth Hollinger LYO 35.18 Gargan, Maurice O'Hara) 196.37

M55 2 Joanna Mein NWOC 38.54 2 LVO Lagan Lads (Bill Simpson, Ernie Wilson,

D course 7.0 kml315 mI Colin Dunlop SET 56.Q2 3 Maureen Dooley CNOC 42.44 Wilbert Hollinger) 198.19

Ml12 Clive Tyner 3ROC 63.02 3 ECO Oldies (Kieran McDonald, John de Lacy,

1 Marcus Pinker Cork 0 66.043 Frank Cunnane Cork 0 68.49 K course 3.0 km/ 125 m Ted Russell) 213.57

2 Gavin Doherty GEN 66.06W21C W3S+

3 John O'Neill EVOC 71.47 WI7 1 B.Daly LKOC 28.43 I ox¥GEN (Jane Watt, Andrea McCormack,

1 Karen Convery 3ROC 46.13 Mauro Thornhill) 154:53

M4Q2 Emma Glanville 3ROC 47.58 Mto 2 3ROC Amazons (Brigid Flanagan, Monica

I Sedn McSweeney BYOC 65.27 3 Aileen de Rfs AJAX 60.1'6 I D. Burke Cork 0 20.52 Nowlan) 160.05

2 Wilbert Hollinger LVO 67.192 P. O'Brien AJAX 22.26 M4S+

3 Paddy O'Brien AJAX 68.12 W45 3 Luke,C·CraWford 3.ROC 27.30 I CNOC 4 (Paddy Lalor, Gerry Byrne, Frank

I Trina Cleary 3ROC 65.43 IMcCormack) 157.47

E course S.S km/ 270 m 2 Sue Pim WATO 66.47

IWlO 2 LVO Lagan Lords (Alan Gartside, Brian McK·

M21B 3 Brigid Flanagan 3ROC 71.21 1 Paqiela Flanagan 3ROC 36.35 erma, Alan. Pentland) 161.50

I Brendan O'Brien 3ROC 59.522 Niamh Nowlan 3ROC 46.58 3 3ROC 3" Crocks (Pat Flanagan, Nigel Campbell-

3 S.'Baldwin CNOC 63.32H. course 3.-' kml 130 m 2 J.Mu1cahy CNOC 63.01 Crawford, Peter O'Neill). 183.55

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M45 I Nuala Creagh 3ROC 6&.44 MIl I Cork 0 I (Marianne Hutchinson, Mary O'Con-I

1 DonalBurke 1.;eeO, .63.27 2 Faith White SET 74.22 I 1 A.Mein NWOC 24.45 nor, Deirdre Creedon) 104.14, Ernie Wilson LVO 64.09 3 Mdirfn Morrish loeO F.Fit:Zgibbon- 79.24 2 WATO 29.08 2 NWOe Lassies (Joanna Mein, Vicky 'Logue. R.

3 Gerry Byrne CNOC 65.13 3 CheFinlay FermO 29.27 Mein) ,1'50.493 BVOC 5 (S.Feehan, N.Feehan. A.Feehan)

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W17·I 3ROCkers (Sheila Convery, Karen Convery.Emma Glanville) 138.572 Cork Lashies (Faye Pinker, Ailbhe Creedon.T.Connolly) 156:36

M.J3· (Results not yet 1.0 hand)

How fast?

Minutes per km for the first three in eachclass:MI3 10.58, 12.06, 12.43WI3 12.61,13.89,15.26MI5 8.64,8.79,9.62WI5 11.86,13.13,14.38M17 9.44,9.44, 10.25W17 1'0.75,11.16,14.02MI9 7.96,8.18,9:09WI9 12.17, 1'2.69, 13.85M21E 7.64,7.69,7.93W21E 9:86;"9.96,10.09M21A 10.11, io.n, 10.32W21A 11.09, 11.26, 12.45M21B 10.32,10.86,10.95W21B 14.80. 13.72. 17.88M21C 10.96,12.'85,14.93W21C 9.57. 12.04, 13.53M35 8.85,9.14.9.82W35 11.34, 12.31, 14.25M40 9.35,9.62,9.74W40 12.74, 12.84, 13.93M45 10.94, 11.06, 11.24W45 15.28,15.53, 16.59MSO 11.58, 13.01, 13.39W50 12.52, 13.78. 15.15M55 13.03. 14:66, 16.00WS5 20.22.21.87,'23.35M60 14.19,14.36,15.31

The ones that got away .••No review of the results would be complete without. alook at.the near misses and unusual features whichmake any event memorable, at least for the peopleinvolved in them! The closest finish was betweenMarcus Pinker and Gavan Doherty in MJ 7 where onlytwo seconds separated them, while the biggest win-ning margin was: that of Audrey Sheridan over NoraLee in W21B (1'2.17). In the individual event the lion'sshare of the prizes went to Dublin club Three Rock(17) withCurragh-Naas OC next with 10. Cork 0 andLVO got 9 each,.l':fWOC 7" GEN and svoc 6. AJAX

The.lrish Qrjenreer 8

and Serama 5. Leeo and WatO 4, FennO :;, LoughKey OC 2 and Kevin St. Thomond. ECO and ucco 1each.

Another interesting feature of the weekend was theabortive attempt at the lOA Annual General Meetingat the event centre on Saturday afternoon. Becauseseveral members of the Executive Committee wereinvolved in running the event and others didn't orcouldn't come to the meeting the quorum for (heCommittee wasn't reached and so the meeting wasadjourned to an unspecified date without objectionfrom the assembled throng. (As Frank Cunnane said.sine die and nem con, for all you Latin scholars).There's a separate account of the re-convened meetingelsewhere in this issue. This, 1 think, is the first timethat this happened: in previous years people wereturned away from [he AGM, thay had to look inthrough the windows of the hall even if it was in themiddle of the countryside in Co. Galway. NOI a veryedifying, sight, nor very. encouraging for the ordinaryorienreer, particularly in a World Championship year.

The map of Rossadrehid published in this issue showsBrian Corbett's winning route on the M21 Elitecourse.

John McCullough.

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For details write to Tiglin the National Ad-venture Centre or phone 0404/40169 or oil509845

LVOAT IOC(This articlewas pilfered from the Lagan Valley Orienteers club newsletter).

'THE GOODNEWS ']HE BADNEWS

- There were no red traffic lights onthe Naas road out of Dublin.

- Y'ou don't pay a ser~ice charge ifyou get your punts from a cashdispenser.There was only one' shower of rain'on 'Saturday:.

- Wegot parked Sm f~om the start.

- The first three controls were notfar away.

- Wilbert finished in 2nd place.

- Ruth and David Hollinger won theircl:asses.

- There was a roaring fire in theGlen Hotel.

- The rain cleared, up for thecampsite barbeque.

- Timmygot the cat out of the tent.

- 16 people can fit into Alan's 10 ftcaravan.

- The re,lay run-in was only 12'0metres long.

- The MJS+ relay team pas'sed theleaders, ECO.

- 'lou can ignore Ted Russell's jibesat the changeover.

- Our HIJ,. team w,as first on theresults board.

- The H/WlJ team was reinstatedfollowing an official protest andtakes the ·prize.

- The M3S+ team was announced aswinning.

- The M4S+ tea.m took second place.

- James Logue sprinted up the tapesto pass ,the leader in the Mens'Open to win for NWbC.

- We finally got the TIO 'Trophy backafter Colm O'Halloran's "guest" runfor CorkO i's discounted.

- ~he Controller led the convoy oueof the campsite.

- There' were no green ones either.

- Cash dispensers don't work too wellduring a powercut.

- It lasted all day.

- We couLdn r t; see it through therain.

- They were sited along the side of aravine.

- He had a badly sprained ankl~ .ndwas Jrd leg runnar in my relayteall.

- I didn't.

- It was intended for a weddingpa,rty, not sweaty orienteers.

- It started again on Sunday.

- It had already peed on ChrisScott's sleeping bag.

- Only 8 of them can get a seat.

- It was also 40 metres up.

- The AJAX team passes both of us.

- They're harder to ignore on the wayto the first control.

- :it was disqualified for including aW1J.

- The prizes were locked in the Eventcentre.

- We'felt obliged to tell the plannerthat AJAX passed us.

- Alan Pentland limped up the 'finishta.pes.

- Wecan't persuade him t'o join LVO.

- Westill can't per suade James Logueto join LVO.

- He 'g,ot l,ost at th'e secondcross-roads.

I,t was 'a long j(,)Urney homeJ and there is much more to report of the weekendthan I have recorded here. We had 45;, c.lub members competing a,t IO(!:>a'ndrec.orded three 'second pl~ce in,dividual runs as well C!S the winl),ers me1:ltion:edabove . Andy Stott, Wilbert Hollinger and. Ernie W.i1sol1were second in;M21A,H40 and ,M4.5respectively,; Myra McCormick ,was. 3rd in W21C; 5th and 6th 'werepopular positions for INO .member s this year. Ther.e are onLy 51 weeks oftraining 'to g,et fitter ·fOl;,next Y,!,!ar's IOC i'Tl connaught .... ". p"lent;y Qf timeto run up a few mountains befor;e then ,..•.. B~ll S~Jllps0r:t

The Irish Oden'"!' TO

TIO TROPHY 1991Unfortunately the failure of several clubs ro reply 10

the entry invitation in March has delayed the entireno trophycompetition this year. Apologies to theothers who did enter on rime,

The 1991 Draw is as follows:LeinsterGEN v 3ROC; FIN v AJAX. CNOC* v SET*MunsterLEE v WATO; Cork 0* v winner~LYO v NWOC; FermO v winner,(Clubs marked with an asterisk are only provision-

ally entered in the competition as they still have notreturned their entry).The Leinster final will be a 3-way tie between the

winners of the first round matches. The National finalwill be announced soon. The late Star! of the competi-tion this year will mean that the winner almost cer-tainly won't be able to go to the CompassSport Cupfinal in October unless special events are arrangedover the summer and early September to run off theno Trophy competition.

lOA GETS TOUGHfOA Fixtures Secretrary Sean Coner is adopting a

get tough approach to clubs failing to register eventswith him in time. The 1991 regime is that unless yousend in a registration form with the event details andthe registration fee of £2 to £5 depending on the gradeof event. your event won't be insured and your eventwon't be publicised.Already the events listed on the fOA recorded tele-

phone message have been cut to the ones on theofficial fOA fixture list produced roughly every sixmonths.The events listed in the newspapers and on radio

will be Similarly cut back but the pinch won't really befell until September when the newseason starts.Does the fact that the IDA is disowning unregistered

events mean that no levies are payable on them?

SWEDlSH lNVITA TIONAn invitation has been received by lOA to send two

orienteers to two clinics being held in association withthe annual Swedish 5-Day competition in July. Theclinics are for coaching and for running and the

invitation also offers cheap entry to the event, meals,transport and accommodation. Ir is highly likely thatthe two places will have been allocated by now but ifyou want to have a go contact IDA.Remarkably. although we have been sending orien-

ieers to these clinics since the mid -70's.we have neverhad any feedback or report from one of them or anykind of a clinic held here to pass on the information.

MOUNTAIN TRIATHLONFor those of you not going to the Mournes Mountain

Marathon this year an alternative, equally sedare formof activity is a mountain triathlon being run'in Waleson September 22nd. The competition involves a 8 kmcanoeing course. 9 km hill race with 2000 feet ofascent and 36 km cycl ing largely on forest tracks.Entries close on July 31SI and are limited to the first110 entrants. Entry fees are STG£14 (over 18), STG£8(over 14). Mountain bikes are recommended andpresumably you mUSIprovide your own canoe too.Details feom Plas y Brenin, Capel Curig, Gwynedd,

LL240ET.Oddly enough there's a similar event on here on

August 26th: the Iron iv!ountuin Challenge in Co.Fermanagh. Details from Raymond Finlay, Gonarole,Florencecoun. Co. Fermanagh.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTThe 4th lntemarlonal Scientific Symposium on Ori-

enteering will run from 26lh-29thlAugust in Czecho-slovakia. in conjunotion with WOC 91. The subject ofthe conference is "Performance Improvement inOrienteering". Special topics include truining control,psychological training, women's orienteering andfuture trends in O-trIlining. The cost is DM60 confer-enoe fee plus DM240 for full board. Details fromFaith White (044-72118)Unfortunately the conference comes too late for the

runners at the World Championships which finisheson the 26thl

FOR CARTOPHILESThose of you. interested in maps might like to know

about a limited edition of the final printing of theOrdnance Survey One Inch series maps of Britain.Sixty complete sets of 189 sheets are being sold-tocelebrate.the 2QOthAnniversary of the OrdnanceSurvey this year. The COStof the set is STG£1250.Details from OSGB in Southampton.

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COILLTE CASH INCoillte Teorarua, the National Forestry company, are

starting to cash in on people using the forests. Under anew devolved administration scheme district forestersare evidently empowered to charge users for forestrypermits. The matter came to a head in Munster re-ceruly when Lee Orienteers received a demand for afee of £50 per event for a grade 3 event in the Glen ofAherlow and for the Munster Championships.

As Bill Hallowes remarks in the current AFASNews, "Time was, not so long ago, when all youneeded was permission, as under the old Forestry andWildlife the land SOil of belonged to the people ofIreland. So what happened? Did we sell it? I hope wegot a good price".

With events such as Day I of the recent Leinster 0-Ringen attracting less than 80 people, II £50 chargefor a permit will have the effect of killing off smullevents, ending the mapping of forested areas or evensendingorienteers underground to run small eventswithout permits. The lOA is at present negoriaringwith Coillte to come to some agreement. Let's keepour fingers crossed: this is the biggest crisis to hitorienteering here for many years. If it goes ahead itwill mean a complete rethink on the promotion andfuture of Irish orienteering.

The permit issue is one which will impinge not juston oriemeers but on other adventure spons and out-door activities. How long before walkers and climberswill have to pay to cross State lands to get to the hillsand crags or canoeists to use rivers? It seems from the10A's approach that they may have already concededthat such charges are reasonable and are negotiating ina damage limitation exercise rather than opposing thefoot in the door tactics of Coillte. Where is the lOAEnvironment Officer now - this is one of the vacantPOStSon the executive.

Orienteers are noted for their meekness when itcomes to rules and regulations as well as their indif-ference, apathy even, towards the difficulties of otheradventure sports in their past access problems: howmany orienteers were involved in the protests againstCarroll PLC in Connemara when canoeing wasbanned'? Or in trying to stop hydroelectric schemes inKerry and Donegal? What about the water bus inGlendalough, the Wicklow Interpretative Centre. thethreat LObuild tea-rooms and a road onto Derrybawnabove Glendalough? It may be now that we will needthe support of the other organisations who use theoutdoors, but.do we deserve it?

We like to be seen as reasonable, responsible usersof the outdoors. and rightly so, but where is our

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nghieous indignuuon? The Coillte charges will alterorienteering greatly. Are we just going to let it hap-pen? 111e threat has been there for some time but onlynow is it coming out into the open. Once again 1suspect that it will be left to the overworked. under-staffed, unpaid. unthanked and little appreciated lOAto solve the problem as best they can. All manyorienteers want to do is run around a forest on aSunday and go home for their tea.

PLANNING AHEADIf you've decided to give the Sconish 6-Day a miss

this year (or not) you might like to know about nextyear's Welsh 6-Day, Croeso 92, from August 2nd-8th.Based at Lampeter (42 miles NE of Fishguard) theFestival will be run as a galoppen with 1000 points forthe winner each day, best 4 results to COunt. and with :1day off on the Wednesday (just like Scotland). PCOl-

brey (brilliant, forested sand dunes, and pronouncable)will be used on Day 2 and the other five days feature avariety of different terrains. Watch this space.

NATIONALO·DAYThis year National orienteering Day, when clubs all

around the country run special beginners come and tryiLevents is On Sunday September 29th. In Leinsterthere will be events at Phoenix Park (Dublin), HellfireWood (Raihfarnharn), Newbridge House (Donabate),Killiney Hill Park and Corkagh Park (Clondalkin).

By the way. National Try O-Day in Britain is onSeptember 15th. One event near Birmingham run byWest Midlands OA, Central Heartbeat and Royal MailStamps is expected to attract 4000 to 6000 people!

ODDS 'n' ENDS• Not quite so cheap-O: The periodical rate for

posting TIO has gone up again to 32 pence per copy.Remember to print "Periodical rate" on the top lefthand corner of the envelope and to leave it unsealed.

... To make the interprovincial more interesting,how about clarifying the point about eligibility: sayyou can opt to run for either the province of your birthor the province to which your club is affiliated.Thatshould at least give Connacht some son of a chance ...

... Small Print: sorry about the size of the print inmuch of the last TIO. We'll IT)' not to let it happenagain.

... Don't forget the Junior Training weekend inWest Cork on August 23{l.4/25. Details from BernardCreedon. Junior Affairs Officer (021-361824).

.. This year's Burren Walk and Fanore orienteer-ing event are on August 31st/September Ist in Co.Clare. This Thomond Orienteers event tradiuonallymarks the end of summer and the start of the new 0-season.

.. More on events: The Coumshingaun event onJune 16th was cancelled; the Brandon Hill event onJune 2nd was a grade 2, not a grade 1 event; the Ma-lahide Castle event on October 20th is in some doubt(depends On the drawing of the map, which is in Eng-land). So JUSt because it's registered doesn't mean it'llhappen!

MARINE MAMMALSEco-freaks (not counting Ted Russell and John de

Lacyl) and theatre buffs might like to know that thetwo epic poems "Whale Nation" and "Falling for aDolphin" by Heathcote Williams are coming to theProject in Dublin for a week. The award-winningdouble bill, performed by Roy Hutchins. will run fromJune 17th to 22nd. Tickets are £7 (£5 for students,OAP's and unemployed) and group reductions apply.

Orienteers and other ecologically-minded groupshave been invited along. The information sheet actu-ally says that reductions are 10% for 10 people, 20%for 20, 30% for 30 and so On (my italics). Does thismean that if you get a group of a hundred that they getin for free?

THE YORKSHIRE RIPPERAn interesting article from the Journal of Navigation

(Vol 40, No.3) has JUStcome TIO's way. Called"Navigational Ideas and the Yorkshire Ripper investi-gation" by Stuart S. Kind, the article describes thework done on trying to link together 17 anacks (13murders and 4 assaults) in the nonh of England to seeif they were connected by time or place, and where theperpetrator could be based (rather like a bizarre scoreevent).

The first navigational test was to fmd the "centre ofgravity" of the attacks irrespective of the time of day.This gave a result near the city of Bradford. Thesecond navigational test took the time of each offenceinto account if the Ripper were to operate from acentral location. The logic was this: if he seeks hisvictims wherever he can find them and returns to hisbase as quickly as possible then he'll tend to strikelater in the day the nearer he is to base so that he canreduce the chance of getting caught if the crime isdiscovered quickly. They found that the later auackswere near Leeds and Bradford, as predicted.

On December IOLh lYlIU the investigunon team weremade aware of these suggestions and in February 1981Peter Sutcliffe from Bradford was arrested and laterconvicted of 16 of the offences.

So you never know when familiarity with maps willcome in useful!

RAINBOW CHALLENGESaol Plus at the House of SPOil are organising the

Rainbow Walking Challenge from May to septemberto emphasise the health benefits of walking as a formof exercise. This is being run as part of the WorldHealth Organisation's Healthy Cities campaign andwill culminate in a day-long Walking Festival at thePapal Cross in the Phoenix Park on Sunday, Septem-ber 22nd.

A Wayfarer orienteering course is a likely ingredientin the day's activities in the Park.

PENFRIEND WANTEDVirng Bir6, a 14 year old orienteer from Hungary, is

looking for an Irish pen friend. She has coeliac diseaseand has been on a special diet for 6 years. She writes:

"I'm looking for a teenage penfriend. l.m U 14 yearold Hungarian girl fmm Budapest .. I have got a 10year old sister. I have been learning English for 5years, Russian for 4 years and German for I year. Ilove cultivate spons very much as orienteering andskiing but jazz-ballet and ballroom dancing too. Myparents and my sister make also orienteering. Mymother was a member of the Hungarian representativeteam, Myself I am a member of a children theatre inBudapest. we have often performances. Since my ageof 8 years I have to be on a diet because of my suscep-tibility to flour.

I'm looking forward to a reply of those children whowould like to correspond with me showing the sameinterest and having the same i1ness. We could getacquainted with each other's countries. the orienteer-ing-life and I hope we could make a new friendshipwith each other.

Many Greetings,

Virag Biro, Budapest, Vaci u.73, H-I056, Hungary."

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Contrasts at JK 91The 1.99l Jan Kjellstrorn Trophy at Easler in

the English EastMidlands offered totallycontrasting types of orienteering over theweekend, from the flat and very fast ClumberPark (actually part of Sherwood Forest) to themore intricate but steel' Shining Cliff andCrich Chase. ALmost 4000 competitors tookpart, with 34 courses, 61 competitive classesfrom HID 10 B to HID 70L. John McCulloughreports on his 15th consecutive JK.

PrologueTraining at Cromford Moor on Good Friday, unusu-

ally.tbore a certainresemblance to the Day 2 raceterrain, steep slopes, runnable forest and a disusedrailway line allowed us to blow away-the cobwebs ofcrave I.IndividualThe first individual race on Saturday at Clumber

featured fast running in not-too-detailed mixed forestand parkland, with the Elite courses being won bySteven Hale running for OK Tyr, Sweden, in 77 .27(16.7 kmlI50m = 4.6 mins per km} and Yvette Hague(AIRE, Scotland) in 58.21 (9.9 kmll05 m = 5.9 mpk).Both went on to win the overall competition althoughYvette finished second to Claire Bolland (whosefamily are no strangers to Irish orienteering) on Day 2.Day 2 at Shining Cliff and erich Chase was less

intricate than the programme had led us to believe, butanything would be intricate after Clumber. The areawas divided in twO by a road and a river. Shortercourses were confined to Shining Cliff where thefinish was while the longer courses had a 2.5 km walkto the stan on Crich Chase with a 1.2 km voidedsection in the middle of the course where the routewas marked from one area to the other. We hadexactly 12minutes to cover this distance and in effecthad a chasing start on the second half of the course: aninteresting solution to the problem: a course with twostarts and two finishes! This-was fine until the finishtimer at the end of part 1 of the course broke downand messed up the timing. (Remember- if anythingcan go wrong, it will). A run-In which presaged the10C Relays featured here, with a climb of up to 50metres between the second last control and the finish.The terrain here wasn't terribly difficult but the1: 15000. map supplied to most competitors was roo

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detailed to read on the run in many places: perhaps aI :10000 such as was given to juniors •.veterans andnovices.would have been better.

Apart fromthe timing problem a misplaced controlon the H2.lElite, H2IL'and H40L courses causedproblems for competitors 'and headaches for theorganisers and race jury, Steven Palmer (2nd on Day Iin H21 E) lost 5 minutes there and was subsequentlydisqualified for illegible punching of his control card.The jury agreed that the control was misplaced (on anunmarked re-entrant 25 metres away and 5 metresdownhill from the correct site) bur that the resultsshould nonetheless stand and the courses not bevoided. This has generated quite a bit of controversyin British O-circles with the suggestion that the reasonthe courses weren't voided was to save face in the eyesof international orienteers (this is after all Britain'Spremier event)', It just goes to show that, even in thebest regulated events, mistakes will happen. At the1984 JK in North wales the M21E1ite course on Day 2was voided following a control placment error, costingIreland's Peter Kernan a win in the event, An interest-ing twist to the JK jury story is that jury member PeterPalmer stepped down since his son Peter was involvedin a protest. Tony Thomley, Chairman of the jury,would have been out of the top three in H40L if tllecourses were voided and the results based on Day Ionly. Jury duty is no easy job either!RelaysThe Relays on Monday returned to Clumber Park

with a smaller map of part of the forest. Again it wasfast and furious, as a relay should be. OK Tyr won theJK Trophy and South Yorkshire Orienteers theWomen's Open. North West OC gave us a hint of theircapabilities when they finished 8th in the top Openclass (JK Trophy) while AJAX finished a very credit-able 12th in the Women's Open.

JK92Whatever the quality of the orienteering the JK is

atwaysa good weekend. This year wasn't bad, orien-teering-wise. but next year should rankamong thebest, There are certain areas of Britain worth making aspecial effort to get to for thequality of the terrain:Scotland, partS of Wales, and the Lake district. The Ji<returns to the lakes for the first-time since 1983 nextEaster, April 17-20. the week before the Irish Champi-onships.: Be there or be square! (See rhe-insert, in thisissue for details: entry forms should be available in theNovember or January T[O).

Notable. Irish performances of the weekend were:Ist place - John Keane (3ROC) in HIIB; 2nd place

- Diana Large (GEN) in D50S and Brian Bogle(NWOC) in H13B; 3rd place - HelcnBaxrer Il.v'O)in D35S, Anne May (3ROC) in D40L and NWOC inthe II- relay; 4th place - Ruth Hollinger (LVO) in0131'\; 5th place - Denis Deasy (SET) in H2IS.Gregory Smythe (NWOC) in H II Brand Cork 0 in the017- relay; 6th place Gareth Lee (NWOC) in H liBand Cork 0 in the H 17,- relay; 7th place - SheilaFeehan (BVOC) in DUB, Peter Keys (NWOC) inHI U3, Anthony McGonigle (NWOC) in H35S, JeffButler (3ROC) in H 15B and NWOC in the 013-relay; 8th place - Clare Nuttall (LeeO) in D50L,Darina Cunnane (CorkO) in 021 L, Marcus Pinker(Cork 0) in H 17A and NWOC in the JK TrophyRelay; 9th place - Vince Joyce (3ROC) in H35L.John Feehan (BVOC).jn H19A and Mark Donovan(3ROC) in H21S2, 10th place - David Hollinger(LYO) inH15A and Jill Keane (3ROC) in D45S.

In the Elite'classes the Irish women did considerablybetter than the men, with Irish Champion-ro-be Cairri-ona nic Mhuiris (LeeO) 22nd (146.04), Deirdre niChallanain (AJAX) 24th (148.16), Julie Cleary(3ROC) 25th (150.51). Caitriona's sister EadaoinMorrish (LeeO) 28th (155,09), Maeve MacPherson(3ROC) 32nd (157.54), Taro Horan (AJAX) 39th(165.03), Hilde Creagh (3ROC)49th (174.23), Cather-ine Lyons (AJAX) 53rd (177,55) and Michelle Cole-man (AJ AX) 58th (209.13). Suzanne Clarke (3ROC)only ran on Day I when she was 55th and Orla Cooke(AJAX) was 45th on Day I but mispunched on Day 2and was disqualified.In the men's elite James Logue (NWOC) finished

36th (176.20), Steve Linton (NWOC)44th (181.12)and Colm O'Halloran (LeeO) 55th (190.16).

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Ll1TLE ADO ABOUT MUCH

(Subtitled "The 1991 lOA AGM")

Act One, Scene One ..Place: Kilfinnane Outdoor Education Centre, Co.Limerick.Time: Late afternoon following the Irish Champion-ships. April 27th 1991.

Enrer lOA Chairman John Creugh and TechnicalOfficer Trina Cleary. Where are the others?Scene Two. Some minutes later.Enter a crowd of orienteers holding sheets of paper.They sit down on the chairs provided. They wait.Scene Three. Later still. The crowd is restless.Some non-executive members of the lOA arrive.Eventually it is decided to start [he meeting. But no!Whut is this? The guest of honour has not arrived -where is The Quorum? The players go into a huddle.The crowd mutters darkly. The smell of food wafl~through [he open door. The clouds darken outside asdusk approaches. The Chairman speaks."We have decided [0 adjourn [he meeting as we havenot got a quorum of the Executive Comrniuee".(E'<':lJnt omoes )

Act Two. Some weeks later (actually May 25th) atThe Chester Beatty Lounge (I kid you not), Ashford.Co. Wicklow.

Enter in procession lOA Chairman John Creagh.Treasurer Pat Flanagan. Junior Affairs Officer Ber-nard Creedon, Fixtures Secretary Sean Cotler. PROJohn McCullough, followed in dribs lind drabs by usmall (about 15) motley crowd.Chairman: Ahem! Let us stan the meetingAll: Yes. Let us stan the meeting.Chairman: As we have no Secretary who will takethe minutes?All: (closely examining their shoes) Rhubarb, Rhu-barb, Rhubarb.Chairman: Very-well, I'll do it Can we agree that lastyear's minutes are a true and accurate etc. etc. etc.

(But back to realiry.)Chairman. Treasurer, Junior Affairs Officer, FixturesSecretary, PRO give brief reports on the years activi-ties. thus:

Chairman John Creagh remarked that Irish orienteer-

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ing IS at a crossroads. We can either go torward orotherwise. A lor of difficult decisions are going tohave to be made. and tough negotiations entered into.by the incoming executive. His three years are up andso he must stand down.

Treasurer Pat Flanagan fleshed out the: bonesof the financial statement a bit: fOA had a balance of£3727 at the end of last December. an income of£ 17221 and an expenditure of £ 16287 last year. OurGovernment grant went up from £7000 to £8000 andwe: got additional Cospoir grams of £ 1150 for thethree Home Internationals. Pat wanted [0 have enoughmoney on hand to pay the fOF Affiliation fee, the lOAinsurance policy and the World Championships entryfees. The 10F fee has to be paid or we won't be lettake part in the WOC. although they want £500 whenlast year it was only £270 and insurance costs over£2000.

In the absence of Technical officer TrinaCleary her report was read out. She highlighted thedifficulties being experienced in Conn aught wherethere are major difficulties in keeping the sport aliveand complimented NWOC on the frish Champion-ships and the Munster clubs on the Shamrock 0-Ringen. On the technical from she feels she achievednothing in 1990. The Rules still need updating (morethan ever. following the Irish Championships) but shehopes to have a draft set of rules for lOA by septem-ber. Interestingly she does say "However. i wouldremind all organisers. planners and controllers that rheexisting RULES still apply and must be adhered to".During 1991/92 she hopes to see more regional inputinto technical matters with regional technical officerstaking responsibility for standards in the regions. Aregional meering for planners. organisers and control-lers and a yearly national conference will be attemptedin the corning year. The activities of the lOA TrainingBoard were detailed: the mapping course run inConnacht to suit the locals didn't artract a singleConnacht orienteer, She thanked the Board and par-ticularly Bill Hallowes for their work.

Fixtures Secretary Sean Cotter told us aboutthe events held and the events planned for the nextfew years. His main complaint is about unregisteredevents or changes in dates and/or locations of eventsnot being notified to him. saying that these events arenot insured. He proposes that only events whose feesare paid 3J1dwhose registration fonns are properl ycompleted be included in the National Fixture List andthat only those events be publicised by lOA. He saidthat a number of unofficial fixture, lists appear fromtime to time (could it be every two months in TI0?)which contain events which are not lOA registered orwhich differ from the lOA registered ones. Small

events can be registered at any time. however, bycontacting the National Fixtures Secretary (with formand fee, no doubt).

Bernard Creedon, Junior Affairs Officer com-plimented AlB on their sponsorship of Junior trainingand reponed on the success of the Irish team O-suitsponsored by Water Technology. He reroinded us thatour best ever performance at junior level was at theWard Junior Home International in Scotland with afirst and third individual and runners up in three relayclasses.

International Officer Faith White referred tothe increase sought in IOF fees and noted that Irelandhas applied to host the World Junior Championships.She attended three fOF Development and PromotionComminee meerings and is particularly concernedwith orienteering for the disubled. She also informedus that the 1995 World Championships will be inGermuny (the 1993 WOC is in the USA).

Outgoing PRO John McCullough reponed thutthe lOA has at last got an answering maching capableof giving out orienteering information and essentiallyrepeated his brief repon from the 1990 AGM.

Two Constitutional Amendments were proposed bythe Leinster O-Council: that a nominated representa-tive of the Regional Chairperson should be allowed toauend lOA executive meetings instead of the Chair-person, and that Associated bodies (for instance,Schools O-Associations) should be entitled to repre-sentation on Regional Councils. Leinster ChairmanBrion Hollinshead explained the reasons behind theseproposals 3J1d the amendments were carried.

The election of Officers followed. although "election"is tOOstrong a word as no votes were necessary. Thenew committee is - Chairman (& lunior Affairs)Bernard Creedon. Treasurer Pat Flanagan, FixturesSecretary Selin Colter, Technical Officer trina Cleary,Development Officer John Creagh. PRO EadaoinMorrish. International Officer Faith White.

The positions of Executive Secretary, AdministrativeSecretary, Environment Officer remain totally vacantwhile likely lads have been sported for Mapping andCoaching officers.

Frank Cunnane and John McCullough were againreturned as lOA representatives on the FlOA (the joint10A/NIOA body who oversee such things as nationalteams. national championships and so on). The lOAChairman is ex officio on the FIOA 3J1d the lOAexecutive selects a further representative from itsnumber.

Some other business was attended to then:GEN's Jane Wau brought up the matter of last year'sresolution removing the under-I3's from competitiveclasses at Championships. This decision WU.'i. aftermuch discussion. reversed and it was stipulated thatthe M/W 10 and II classes should be competitive: andthat they should be eligible for prizes at Champion-ships in {he same way as other classes but that inaddition each finisher in these classes should get acertificate or souvenir of the event Sean Cotter sug-gested that lOA produce standard certificates for thispurpose,

Noel Morrish of Lee Orienteers expredded thegrave concern of his club at a letter they had had fromthe Coilhe forester in charge of the Aherlow arealooking for payment of £50 per event for 11 smallcompetition in the Glen of Aherlow in lune and forthe Munster Championships in October and also to beindemnified against insurance claims. The meetingwas ourraged that n charge such as this should belevied and lOA's John Creagh and Pat FI3J1agan wereto meet Coillre as a mauer of urgency to negotiate asatisfactory agreement. (lohn and Pat had already metCoilhe about this threat to orienteering). Noel alsoinformed us thl1t there had been advertisements inlocal papers in Galway saying that forests were nowavailable for leasing for various activities such aspony trekking. Apparently Coillte received requestsfor 280 permits for orienteering last year while lOAonly applied for 100. Are we being asked to foot thebill for non-lOA orienteering activity?

On the topic of insurance. a motion urging lOA topursue a revision of the law regarding landownersliability inexplicably didn't make its way onto theagenda for the meeting,

There followed the non-presentation of the imaginaryMactire Trophy by the outgoing Chairman to theabsent Fr3J1KCunnane and the meeting closed. Thepoorest attendance at any lOA AGM I have seen. andI think I've been at every one since 1976. Despite theextraordinary behind the scenes work of those on thelOA and others (WOC team manager Paddy O'Brien,for example) the sport seems to be stagnating. Orien-teering bas failed to mature. We all expect highstandards but the relatively small numbers orienteer-ing here may be tOOfew to sustain the level of activitywe want Are we facing extinction?

J.McC.

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ORIENTEERING FIXTURES

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NI RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPSKILBRITTAINSHAMROCK O-RINGEN

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Gortin, Co. Fermanagh. FermO event. GR H 4983.Bandon. Co. Corle Cork 0 IFL 3. GRW 52 47. 5.30·7.30 pm.Rathgasklg. Inchigeela and Glengarriff. West Cork. Cork Orienteers. Entries toCreedons. Tavio. Mount Prospect. Douglas. Co. Cork.

CURRAGH WOOD Midleton. Co. Cork. Cork 0 IFL 4.5.30-7.30 pm. GR W 8678.PHOENIX PARK Dublin. Evening score Bike-O/foot·O event. 6.30·8 pm start. Hole in Ihe Wall.FLORENCECOURT Co. Fermanagh. FermO soore event. GR H 1733.WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Berlin. Germany.WARRENSCOURT Crookstown. Co. Cork. Cork 0 IFL 5.5,30-7.00 pm. GR W 38 67.NEWBRIDGE HOUSE Donabate. Co. Dublin. GEN annual Midsummer Madness event & barbecue.TRAMORE Co. Waterford. WATO grade 2 event. Sand dunes. GR S 59 01.GARRETTSTOWN Kinsale. Co. Cork. Cork0 IFL 6 & barbecue. 5.30·7.00 pm. GR W 58 44.WICKLOW MOUNTAIN MARATHON Setanta ~C. Glenmacnass. Start 11.00-12.30CHIMNEYFIElD Glenville. Co. Cork. Cork 0 IFL 7.5.30-7.00 pm. GR N 90 85.KINSALE TOWN Co. Cork. Cork 0 IFL Band prizegiving. 5.30-7.30 pm.

August4-1020·25

SCOTTISH 6-DAY Southern Uplands '91. Dumfries area.WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Marianske Lazne. CzechoslovakIa.

September1 FANORE Co. Clare. ThO grade 3 event on sand dunes. after Saturday's Burren Walk.a RIVERSTICK Kinsale. Co. Cork. CorkO grade 3 beginners' event. GR W 6658.a THREE ROCK WOOD LEINSTER LEAGUE 1Dundrum. Co. Dublin. 3ROC. GR 0 1723.14 SliEVE CROOa Ballinahinch. Co. Down. NI Senes 6. LVO. GR J 32 47.15 CORONATION PLANTATION LEINSTER LEAGUE 2 Kilbride. Co. Wicklow. ECO15 CORRIN HILL Fermoy. Co. Cork. CorkO grade 3 beginners' event. GR W 80 96.29 NATIONAL TRYORIENTEERING DAY.22 ANDERSON'S MOURNE MOUNTAIN MARATHON two-day endurancelnavigation race.22 CURRABINNY WOOD Cilrrigaline. Co. Cork. CorkO grade 3 beginners' event. GR W 79 62.28 NORTHERN IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS Binevenagh. Limavady. Co. Derry. NWOC. GR C 6930.29 CURRAGH WOOD Midleton. Co. Cork. CorkO grade 2 event. GRW 86 76.29 SPRINGWELL limavady. Co. Derry. NWOC score event. GR C 76 25.29 NATIONAL TRY ORIENTEERING DAY 'Come and Try It· events around Ihe country.

October5-6 WARD JUNIOR HOME INTERNATIONAL Tir na Spld6lge. and Ros M6r.lnchigeela. Co. Cork.5-6 VETERAN HOME INTERNATlONAL and Nallonal Event. Dunkeld andCraig a'Barns, Perth. Scotland.S KILLAKEE Helilire Wood. Rathfarnham. Co. Dublin. SET Sprint-O. GR 0 1222.12-13 MUNSTER CHAMPIONSHIPS Coumbaun. Mitchelstown. Co. Cork. LeeOrienteers.13 THREE ROCK WOOD Co. Dublin. 3ROC colour event.IS FARRAN Ovens. Co. Cork. Schools' Introductoryevent. GR W 49 71.19-20 WARD SENIOR HOME INTERNATlONAL and National Event. Betwys Y Coed. North Wales.20 MALAHIDE CASTLE Co. Dublin. UCDOgrade 3 event. New map. GR 0 22 45.20 GARRETTSTOWN Kinsale. Co. Cork. CorkO Gr 2 event, Cork League I. GR W 25 68.26 GORTtN Co. Fermanagh. FermO event & LVO Ctub Champs, NI Series 7. GR H 4983.27 MAHON FALLS Comeragh Mountains. Co. Waterford. WATO grade 1 event. GR S 32 07.

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LEINSTER LEAGUE 3 Laragh, Co. Wicklow. GENCo. Derry. NWOCevent. NI series 8. GR C 83 15.Ballinacourty & Ardane/Aossadrehid. Glen of Aherlow. Co. Tipperary.LEINSTER LEAGUE 4 Laragh. Co. Wicklow. 3ROC colour event. GA T 1693.Markethill. Co. Armagh. NI Series 9. LVO. GR H 97 40.Castle Archdale. Co. Fermanagh. FermO.GR H 17 58.

oecemeerI SAGGAAT WOODa BELFIELD26 THREE ROCK WOOD

Co. Dublin. AJAX event.Dublin. UCDO grade 3 event. GR 0 1929.Dundrum. Co. Dublin. 3AOe: annual Xmasscore event. GR 0 1723.

January 19925 HELLFIREWOOD12 NEWBRIDGEHOUSE26 CORKAGH PARK

February15 IRISH STUDENT CHAMPIONSHIPS. Leinster.15 PHOENIX PARK Dublin. Night event.16 PHOENIX PARK Dublin. Pooter Relay. Teams of 3. Entry 11.00·11.30.Mass start 12.00.3ROC.

MarchB SUGARLOAF LEINSTER LEAGUE 5 Kllmacanogue.Co.Wicklow. UCDO.22 CURRAGH LEINSTER LEAGUE 6Co. Kildare. CNOC28 LEINSTER CHAMPIONSHIPS Co. Wicklow. setama OC.29 LEINSTER RELAYS Brockagh. Laragh. Co. Wicklow.GEN.

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Rathfarnham. Co. Dublin. ECO Scoreevent.Oonabate. Co. Dublin. FINGrade 3 event.Clondatkin. Co. Dublin. GEN Grade 3 event

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Ashford, Co. WIcklolN.3ROC Grade 1 event.LEINSTEA LEAGUE 7Carlingford.Co. Loufh. Fingal OC.Lake District. England. Cheap entrieserose January.Connacht.

LEINSTEA SCHOOLS' CHAMPIONSHIPSMULLAGHMEEN LEINSTER LEAGUE FINAL near Finnea.Co.Westmealh, Setanta OC.LEINSTERO-RINGEN Day 1. Entry on day colour event.LEINSTERO·RINGEN Day 2. Sian time based on Day 1lime. Entryon day.

ARDGILLEN PARK Skerries. Co. Dublin. FIN event.LEINSTER SCORE CHAMPIONSHIPSSHAMROCK O·RINGEN Cork/Kerry.

Note: Events In~alics are for information onty and do not formpart of the Irish fixturelist.Only regiSleredevents runby club~affitiated 10 Ihe Irish Orienteering Association. with competent officials. are covered by insurance. Always check with the:>rganisingclub or the Sports Diary in the newspapers if you are in any doubtlhat an event is going ahead as advertised.

Events registered with lOA are highlighted. Non-reqistered events are not covered by lOA Insurance and will receive nopubliCityfrom lOA.~

) lnf-O-line : Up to date tixtures information on lOA registered events IS availableon 01·569099 (24-hours).

Thanks to all of you who have contributed to this issue and to previous TIO's_ Let's have yourreports on the Scottish 6-0ay, the Swedish 5-0ay, the World Championships, the Worl~ JuniorChampionships, the Shamrock O-Ringen and all the rest for TIO 54 in September, OK?

Have a great summer's orienteering, and good luck to the WOC team!

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0- .FOR THE UISAHLEUThe first iruernarional conference on orienteering for

the physically disabled will lake place in Sweden on2()-21 and 24th July 1991 in conjunction with theSwedish 5-Day event. One of the speakers at theConference will be our own Faith White. who is amember of the International Oriemeering FederationDevelopment and Promotion Committee. The confer-ence fee id SEK400 (about £40). Details from Mrs.Ulla Andersson. SOFf. Idrottens Hus. 5-12387 Farsia.Sweden.

SUMMER NIGHTSLots of orienteering is going on in Leinster these

days (or rather, nights). AJAX have been running aFriday evening league of five events during May toraise money for the World Championship team.CNOC have Similarly been running events on Tuesdayevenings during May und June. The finn I two eventsare at hollywood on June 18th (followed by a barbe-cue) and at the Curragh on June 25th. This eventdoubles as the Curragh-Naas club championships.Other summer events include the Crusaders street-O

event at Serpentine Avenue. Ballsbridge on June 13th.the Three Rock Bike-O and Foot-O Score event atPhoenix Park on Friday July 5th and the GEN Mid-summer Madness event at Newbridge House. Dona-bate on 12th luly.

TOUR OF MONT BLANCFingal's Niall Smyth is running a tour of Mont Blanc

in the French Alps from luly 20-30th under the aus-pices of "Adventure Quest" which Niall runs. Thegroup is limited to about ten places but one or twomay still be left.Details from Niall Smyth. 65 All Saints' Road. Ra-

heny, Dublin 5 (01-327477).

TOUGH LUCKTough luck on all of you who missed the 20th Welsh

lOOOm Peaks Race on June lst. Also known us theSnowdonia Summits marathon, the race is 31 km longwith 2700 metres climb starting at Aber and finishingon the summit of Snowdon. Maybe next year.

MACTIRE TROPHYThe Macure Trophy for services to orienteering in

the previous year has been awarded to Corle Orien-teers' Frank Cunnane, outgoing lOA DevelopmentOfficer. As outgoing lOA Chairman lohn Creagh said

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at the AGM. "If Frank was here and we had theTrophy then we could have a presentation". However,us neither were present we made do with a (small)round of applause.

MORE EVENTS ABROADIf you still haven't decided on which competitions 10

lake in this summer (after the Shamrock O-Ringen. ofcourse) here's another one 10 consider: the 5 Jours desNciges Catalanes. Based at Font Romeau, a ski resortin the Pyrenees. the event runs from July 1·5 andoffers courses from HID 10 to HID 60 although thetOP wornens course is still D 19 Elite rather than D21.Entries to Cornite d'Organisarion des 5-10urs. Office

Municipal du Tourisrne, BP 55 - 66120 Font Romeau,France. The small print says entries closed on April30th but you never know. T[O has two entry formssomewhere ...

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RAFFLEWhat a nuisance that the pound note is gone. It used

[0 be dead hnndy (though of course illegal) to writeyour name on a note and put it in a bag for an instantraffle. Pound coins make it more clifficult. HoewverTIO overcame the minor problem and raised £136 forthe Irish World Champs team for Czechoslovakia inAugusr,

The Casio 30-split rime watch was won by FrankFlood, Chairman of Fingal Orienteers of Dublin whilethe Silva fast-acting compass was won by Amy Butlerof Three Rock, also in Dublin. Congratulations. (I'llbet there are fights in the Butler household: first up,best compass!)

TIO TROPHY 90 FINAL FINALThe final news on the 1990 Irish Orienteer Trophy

final run at the Curragh in January is that the oscillat-ing trophy goes back to Lagan Valley Orienteers. theoriginal winners. One of the Cork Orienteers resultswas disallowed when it came to light that he wasn't amember of the club and this was sufficient to tilt thedelicate balance back in L VO's favour. Congratula-tions and commiserations.The only thing certain about that event was that

3ROC finished third!

LEINSTER NEWSPAGE

New-Look Leinster LeagueThe New Leinster League kicks off on September

8th on Three Rock Mountain. followed a week laterby Coronation Plantation. This season league pointswill be awarded right down the field on the Brown,Blue, Green. Red. Orange and Yellow courses. Pointswill be based on your time in relation 10 rhe average ofthe Ilrs: three times for men or women on your courserhn: day. The average of the firsr three is put equal to100 points. If you finish in twice this time you get 50points and so on, according to the equation

P={Tw(fc) x 100where P = your points. Tw = the average of the first

three times on your course (men or women). Tc =cornperltor's time (i.e. your time).The League will be contested over eight events, four

before and four after Christmas, nnd your best fivescores will count. Sumptuous prizes will be awardedal the Leinsrer Dinner/Social/Dance/Disco/Partywhich it is hoped will be run in conjunction with theLeinsrer O-Ringen next May.Leagye CoursesAs a reminder. the courses in the league are:Brown (TechnicaUy hard. for experienced orienteers,

8km+, most finishers 60-85 minutes);Blue (Technically hard. for experienced orienteers,

5.5-7 km. most finishers 50-75 minutes);Green (Technically hard. for experienced orienteers,

3.5-4.5 krn. most finishers 35-55 minutes);Red (Technically medium, for inexperienced orien-

teers wanting a longer course than orange. 4.6-6.0 km,most finishers 50-80 minutes);Orange (Technically easy-medium for those pro-

gressing from novice, 2.5-3.5 km; most finishers 30-55 minutes);Yellow (Novices, technically easy. 1.5-2.0 krn, most

finishers 25.-45 minutes).A more detailed information sheet is being sent to

Leinster clubs.Lejnster Q-Ringen SDJitsSmall numbers taking part in Saturday's event in the

past few years led to the suggestion that the event bestaged on two successive Sundays rather than on aSaturday and Sunday as before. The dates for nextyear are May 17th and 24th 1992. The plan is to have

the Leinster Hooley (see above!) on one or other ofthe Saturday nights. A chasing Start will, of courseoperate on the second day. The event will be entry onthe day, as before, SO don't expect any entry forms.The double Sunday format should avoid clashes whichtend 10occur at that time of year with First Commun-ions and Confirmations and may also suit studentswho might be more inclined to rake a couple of part-days off from the bewks ruther than a whole weekend.

First Aid Coyrse?[f you are a Leinster club member and would be

interested in doing a first aid course next winter pleasecontact lohn McCullough (01-378819) soon. Depend-ing on the level of interest the l.einster Council willtry to arrange it.AmnestyIf you know the whereabouts of the Leinsrer 0-

training videos or other regional equipment (finishtimer, altimeter, overprinrer, trophies etc) lot LeinsterSecretary lane Wan know (01 -936241). And noquestions asked ...Junior NewsJuniors officer Ernest Lawrence plans to run a

training weekend for Leinster juniors In Septemberwith more training later. !992 will be "Junior Aware-ness Year" in Leinster with the focus of much 0-activity on the juniors.Three introductory courses are planned for teachers

and youth leaders, one before Easter. one after Easterand one in September/October 1992. We also hope tohave a Leinster selection running at the BritishSchools" Championships.The Leinster Schools O-Association hopes to use

Leinster open league events as schools league eventsin early 1992. Numbers in Schools events have beenfalling and the number of teachers taking part isdropping.

VacancyFingal's Francis Lafferty has tuken on the job of

Public Relations Officer for the LOC but the job ofDevelopment Officer is still vacant, Aoy takers?

Next MeetjneThe next meeting of the Leinster O-Council is on

September 2nd. If you want anything brought to theattention of the Council get your club secretary tocontact LOC Secretary lane Watt soon.

Leinsrer O-Council. c/o lane Watt. 17 TempleroanWay, Knocklyon Road, Dublin 16. (ph 01-936241).

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A BREED APARTThe (almost completely) unexpurgated account ofBrendan O'Brien's first brush with hill running.

The day dawned with a radiating brilliance as theblinding sun rose forth from the horizon bringing lightto the darkened landscape and breathing life to asleeping city.Or at least it may have, and very probably could

have: some were surely present. alas, Iwasn't. InsteadI was still in a semi-coma not unique in Dublin, Isuspect. particularly among those who, like me, knewwhat the day ahead would bring: "The First Hill Run".Having been a fairly avid orienteer for the past few

seasons I am fairly accustomed to the outdoor, 'hardy'type of life and have actually come 10 enjoy it to agreat extent, despite the conditions of rain, hnil orphoenix Park snow.Through orienteering 1have come to meet mnny

sorts of people, all undoubtedly wonderful in theirown right. but the breed of people whom I seem tohave developed a sort of glowing respect for, and evenawe of, is the orienteer cum hill runner.1must admit that in recent months curiosity has

compelled me to try and seek out what makes a personof this breed rick and as such I have made somediscreet enquiries about hill runs. regarding howhard? how far? how high? how come", how much".how .... ?!All of those [ spoke to had only good things to say

and were all very persuasive. to the extent that I foundmyself almost promising to start hill running. So.armed with this large store of encouragement. enthusi-asm and a few words of advice, [ tentatively decidedto check it out for myself.Hill running for me has always appeared masochis-

tic. a huge. gigantic HILL which one is expected to tryand run up in a race. With no excuse for stopping,like pretending to check your position on a map ortaking a new compass bearing. both of which legiti-mately allow a discreet breather.Anyway, D-Day arrived and I set out early in the

morning of Sunday. April 14th. to compete in theBraycot DART to the Head. [ got to the Promenade inBray a little after 11am and as the "Off' wasn't untilnoon i had ample time - I could have arrived evenearlier had I not run out of petrol en route. I entered onthe day, got my number and a little booklet about therace, safety pins (I even look some for future orien-teering needs). It seemed a good idea to try and lookthe part at the very least so I bought a groovy hill

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Warning on the back. The scene was now set.The Promenade was ablaze with a variety of colours.

shapes and sizes. some more daringly dressed than therest but all with a single goal and fired by a fiercedetermination. The warmth of the sun and the busylittle figures scurrying back and forth, stretching.bending, all scantily clad, could quite easily stimulatethe imagination. It could have been a little mediterra-nean town so far was it removed from ihe hustly andbustle of the real everyday world - in a word, fantas-tic!After a liule stretching and warming up, uttering a

few greetings, we lined up. Quick as a nash we wereaway. Numerous rows of bodies male and femaleheading due south along the Promenade, no greatpanic but all anxious and gathering momentum as wewent.I remember being roughly in the middle of the field,

happily racing along, nOI tOOquickly but at a comfort-able puce. Then suddenly r happened to look up andthere it was, the Cross. It loomed in front of me,getting larger and higher as we gradually progressedtowards the foot of the hill. A sort of slow and nig-gling fear begun to build up inside of me - this wasginormous - how the hell was Igoing to get up it,maybe r should Start 10 walk now or even give up. Iremember saying to ny companion not 10 look up forfeur of one's life, whereupon he looked over at me andgrinned. He wasn't afraid.By now we were leaving the road and beginning the

ascent towards the cross. AI this early stage the lead-ers had opened a gap of 100 metres or so and werefairly lifting it. Icould see a group of about twelve allin international singlets and already in the lead byabout 20 metres. We were now most definitely climb-ing though still on the path. but beginning to beslowed by our own resistance due to gravity. On wewent to the edge of the forest where the only possiblemethod of progressing was by walking, pulling andgrappling through this incredibly steep section.When we finally reached the top I was never so glad

in all my life to touch a cross. The next few kilometreswere undulating with a few steep downhill stretchesaffording one a false sense of speed. I was amazed athow drained I felt around the half-way mark andassumed that the climb must now be taking its toll.The run along the cliff path back towards Bray was

panoramic and often breathtaking even to me in suchan exhausted state. And so, along towards Bray,downhill all the way until the beginning of the Prome-nade. By now my tired limbe were being fuelled onlyby the faint but ever so welcoming sound of a lonepiper close to the finish line. Finishing was an incredi-bly fulfilling experience, like a major accomplish-

rnent, It felt so good to be able to look back up theHead to the cross and revel in what had been com-pleted.I still admire the hill runner but [ now realise that

they too are human. Iwould even be so bold as to rec-ommend thaI any oriemeer or runner should try a hillrun. Why not give it a lash? I certainly will.A word of thanks is due both to the organisers and

the sponsors who organised brilliantly and provided anice bag of Braycot goodies to all finishers. Andendless gratitude to the person responsible for theweather.

Interested in joining Brendan in a few hill races?Quite a number of orierueers are taking part this yearas usual. 3ROC, Setanta, AJAX, GEN, BSO, UCDO,CNOC. Trim O. ECO are all represented. One thing iscertain: you won't be last! (well. most of you won't ... JComing IHRA attractions are: Maulin (19/6), Lug

relay (22/6), Church Mountain (26/6), Prince Wil-liam's Seat (3m, Nephin (7m, Kippure (lOm. Mush-eramore (10m. Djouce (17m. Lone turk (21m.Sugarloaf (24m, Creagh Patrick (4/8), Seahan (11/8).Sorrel Hlll (18/8) and Powerscoun (25/8). Full detailswere published in TIO 52.

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WHEIJ'(t;t) 1MD6 7lI15 MAP, WHY (Jft»J'T'(Oll INI7/CAT6 7U15 A/ZIi,4 W4S WA1'l:1Z1'

compassS mentiS

Look again at the results of the Leinster Champion-ships in March. You'd think the organisers would atleast know the dale of the competition- the events I

ran in were on the 23rd and 24th of March. How aboutyou?

According 10 the Welsh SportS Council's advisorybooklet on infections you'll need to pack more thanyour bramble bashers if you're considering going tCthe Scottish 6-Day, Swedish 5-Day or other summercompetition. Not alone do we have to worry about

licks, hepatitis. encephalitis, Lyme's Disease, Weit'sDisease, tetanus and Red Water, we are told that "Themost serious infection risk associated with leisure timeactivities peripheral to sport ... is the danger of acquir-

ing a sexually transmiued disease from casual sex".

A British orienteer (cadl) has been banned for a yeaifor cheating. He used to enter events twice. once

under his own name (asking for n late Start) and onceunder an assumed name (asking for an early Start) onthe same course. He'd run maybe the firsl half of thecourse, punching his own card. and retire. Then he'dgo out again in his own name, go to where he'd leftoff, and continue round the course. finishing much

faster than he should have. The things some folks willdo to "win"! This Story was going around severalyears ago, but maybe it's only lately that he was

caught. Another ruse is going around a course back-wards, because controls are often easier to see from

their "wrong" side. This, again, will cause disqualifi-cation, as some of you well know ... Now, how do yougel the cash from a PASS machine with the sticky tape

and the cardboard box?

a look at some orienteering odditieS

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AJAX NEWS AJAX NEWS AJAX NEWS J;lhl60J >

OQl6}(l CE€Q_§A.G.M. The A.G.M. was held on March 3rd. Officers of the

club were elected as follows:ChairmanTreasurerSecretaryMappingOfficerJuniorOfficerf1ap Sales

Peter GarganJimmy O'BrienEilis Kernan

There was a good att.endance at our A.G.M. 1n Cola1ste Choilm 1n Swords onMay 7th. It's good to see a few n~w faceR on the committee Ino offenceintended t o the old ones). The committee f('l-the cr.-mingyt:'aris .

Brendan O'Connor

Chairman &Mapping OfflcerSecretaryTrp.asurerP.R.O.Tralning OffJcerJunlor Atfcnrs(~oes this refer to

romance? )SponsorshipGearLeinster Rep.

Aileen RicePat O'Brien

EVENTS: The Friday evening league events havebeen quite well attended. Credit goesto PaddY and Jimmy O'Brien in particularfor doing most of the work, and also toeveryone else who helped out. Five eventsin total have been run in six weeks, whichis no small achievement!

Fr ank FI o..,ojLl I 1ian our : IAnnp. Nallghton.tonn Bean,leon Q'N.)ill

l.eone rd F1,~,ydIi. T,' 1 "S", I:n I I 1nsGerry Srnltharid QUlql"yFrancis Laffcrty

Mt>mbf.\rshipstands at 40. new members e re wp.l,:"me. rl)n':oC"t· I.ill l en I'll '·,4r.Co 1 I ins Ave.. Whlteha I!. Dub I)n. s , 'ph<:'n(~-,765(1(';.

MEMBERSHIP A reminder to anyone who hasn't yet paid theirsubscriptions to contact Jimmy O'Brien, or anycommittee member. Welcome to our most recentnew members, the Fleming family.

Mapping of Ardgi1lan hOB r i ne t t y beg'Jn. Indl'ed. S"nll' of us wel--::r:;,~engrossed In the task on the first night thot we got lockpd jnto thE' park.There waG some confusion as to what's a rootstock and wh.:lte.J'.lstan 0,.,1stump! "lC you can place a control at it. it's a rOCotstor.I~... says F'r enk .['m still not convinced. "'ould anyone r.arp.to c t er i rv t he t (lnp. to'- f1s?

We are down to organise t hr-ee events in t.hE'com in9 y"ar. C!II,jiHllS"I·~.

Planners «nd Controllers have e lr-eedy heen ch(.'s~n. Our n":·:t "v-'Iltwlilbe in Newbrldge (hopefully) on National O.day on S~ptember. 2PthLast, but certainly not least, our M35 relay team won their

class in the National Championships. Maurice O'Sara, Paddy O'Brienand Peter Gargan were the team members. and Maurice in particulardeserves credit for pulling out all the stops on the last leg toclinch the win.

Eight cof us travelled down to the Glt>n of lIhE'rlowtor thO? tYl"'h Ch'~III[>~We d rdrrt bring back any pr i zes but we enJ'ly"d the ~Iet>kend The nks toth..org.:lrllSerSfor two goods day's or i e-nteer i nq 6V(,1I though Lll'~ tUtI t/:. til"!flnlsh of the relays nearly killed a couple Qf us!

ElLIS KERNANSECRETARY29 WILLOW BANK PARKRATHFARNHAM .DUBLIN 14.

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Finally. conqr-e tu t et i cns to R. Devlin on I'lchievlnggr:dcl f;I'IwiarrllllH,t>Wll class and to Nei I Magujl'e for the amazing da:>h up Tl"O("lr~I-~tcMnH,' Iat the Le anater- sccr-e Chemp ionab rpa . Gr.mgratulatlonl'<,!II:'!"r o Mlr.hfJPJO'Keeffe and ChristIne Murphy on the i r- recf'nt en~Tl.lgernpnt.The best or.luck to all our young members who are sittin') th€' Leaving Cp.rr. and (olleg~exams in the coming weeks.DOI)'t.forget Newbridge Dernesne Tup.!OIlillY41.h ,.11111(;>.ll·7 ,;.'.:I("Icl'.r"t· 0 '1'J'ld~~pr111t and a fe~ surprise drinks after~ards.

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Enquiries: Andrew O'Mullane, 79 Glenbrook Park. Rathfarnharn, Dublin 14 (01-933891)

Well done to all who helped with [he Leinster Scxore Championships at Trooperstown Woodon the 19th May. It was a beautiful day and everyone enjoyed the event and bar-B-que. A bigthanks to Dermot Kennedy, Paul Durrant and Maeve MacPherson (3ROC) who organised.planned and controlled. respectively.

RESULTS:A big "congratulations" to Diana Large for her 2nd place in the D50S class at the JK. Also inthe East Midlands was Andrew O'Mullane who came 35th in the H19A class after 23 km oforienteering! At ther Leinster Champs were: Andrew O'Mullane and Derek Kellett (1st and 3rdm190, Jane Watt and Maura Thornhill (l st and 2nd W35), Diana Large (1st W50), GavinDoherty (2nd! M 17), Claire Thornhill W II. Irish Champs same old faces, l st, 2nd's. 3rd's src(no results yet) and a W35 relay win.

EVENTS:Our next event is on July 12th in Newbridge House. This will be our usual mid-summer mad-ness event with bar-B-que afterwards.

MAPPING:Corkagh Park was PUl on the back burner over the winter but hopefully will be ready by Na-tional O-Day. The club is at present looking into new areas. If anyone would like to help just letAndrew (933891) know.

NEWS:Peadar Dempsey who was not content with the irish Champs immediately headed off to theBlackstairs hill run. Despite arriving 10 minutes late he caught the bunch and finished respecta-bly.GEN went to Quasar on April 8th. Everybody was zapped more often than they would haveliked but were soon re-energised: now wouldn't that be handy on those long, hard courses!Congratulations to Helen Coughlan on her recent wedding - the appropriate adjustment in yourmembership fee is being made!!! Congratulations also to Brian Bell on the family's new Wl ,

SOCIALS:GEN is 15 years old this summer and there is a party in Jane's house (936241) at 9.30 on Friday9th June. Members and their friends are warmly invited. (£3 door charge including supper/wine).Until next time, enjoy your summer's orienteering and don't forget to tune in for maliciousgossip.P.S. Commiserations to Gavin D. who lost 2 seconds picking up his map at the IOC and neverrecovered.

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THREE ROCK ORIENTEERING CLUB

Enquiries: Vera Murtagh, 19 The Cloisters, Dublin 6w(01- 908237)

TRAINING

The Fi"sT:Fridays and Saturdays have come to an end tor the summer,however they start again on FR1DAY, 6th SEPTEMBER, GLENALBYN, 8.00 p.m. onwards.Instead of the usual training event on Saturday, 7th, we are having a CLEAN-UPon 3ROC. As well as having a pleasant walk we wIll be going our bit for theenvironment in a practical and obvious way. We will supply the Plastic 8ags.CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The bus outing to ~Iullaghmeen in April was a great success. The ClubChampionships were run off and after a combination of Higher and Applied Maths.the Club Champions were duly declared - congratulations to all. Our SupremeOhampion (next appearance at Crufts!) is KAREN CONVERY, a very worthy winner ofthe beautiful trophy present by Ian McNeill of F08ter Motors. Our thanks coBrian Hollinshead, Ian McNeill; Trina Cleary and JOhn McCullough who were allinvolved in the organisation ot the whOle thing and 'toNuala Creagh for thebeautiful oertif'icates. Special thanks of course to SETAN'rA who facilitated usso well on the day.EVENTS

A grateful thanks to all who helped run the very successful second dayof the Leinster 2 Day. 3ROC will be running a Leinster League Event on SUNDAY8th SEPTEMBER (the day after the clean-up on 3ROC) on 3ROC. The usual cry forvolunteers will go out nearer the time.WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS '91

We would like to wish all our 3ROC members on the WOC '91 squad the verybeat of orienteering luck on their run-up to and including the final selectionevent. They are Justin May, Vince Joyce, Julie Cleary, Una Creaah, Maeve MacPherson,Rachel Burgess.

IRISH ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS 1991

Congratulations to all our roc '91 Champions - ;·jonicaNowlan (W40),Trina Cleary (W45) , Nuala Creagh (\1155), Karen Convery (W17), Sheila Convery (W15).and Brendan O'Brien (M21B). Well done to 2nd placed Ursula MacPherson (W2lA),Emma Gla.nviUe (WI7), Nora Lee (\I121B), Luke Campbell Crawford (MI0), Clive Tyner (1,155)and 3rd placed Justin May (M21E), John McCullough (M35), 3rigid Flanagan (W45).

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY ...:31st Augustl 1st September BURREN IJiALK/ORIENTEERING,FANORE,Co. Clare ....6th September FIRST FRIDAY GLENALBYN ....7th September CLEAN-UP on3ROC ....8t~ September Leinster League 3ROC

Finally, best of luck to all 3ROCkers going to the Shamrock 0 Ringen;Scottish 6-Day; Swedish 5-Day; World Championships and any other events youmay be going to over the summer.

Congratulations also to Julie Cleary. :.JnaCreagn &< ,·laeveMacPherson whosuccessfully defended their Women's Open title in the relays; also SheIla andKaren Convery and Emma Glanville who won the -W17 relay title. \I1elldone toour W 35..team of Monica Nowlan. Brigid Flanagan and Mal!'!!Walsh who cam;;second.

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C Course 4.IKro, 105M, 13 Controls

# Name Clas,s Club TimeI A D·L M55 GEN 51:262 David Quinn M35 GEl'< 53:48.3 K Reid 55:274 Simon Walsb MI5 DLSO 55:53s Twohig CNq( 56:536 GColldon M45 GEN 59:147 R Norton M50 3ROC 61:418 Marie Walsh W40 3ROC 62:029 Pat Spillane SJC 62:2410 W McCormack 65:01II PDempsey M50 GEN 65:2812 Jeff Butler MIS 3ROC 66:4013 Jaon O'Brien W35 Ajax 66:5514 M Thomhill W35

CNO(67:07

15 Cahill M21B 67:3616 Sven Ku1Jdorlf SET 67:4017 F Glanville WI? 3RO~ (\7:4418 v.' Browne CNO 68:2319 McKiernan CNOf 69:0120 BCryan M2lB 3ROC 69:3221 B Condon MI9 GEl" 69:4622 Fintan Hanlev 69:~2:1 M Hewson . M60 GEl" 70:2

24 S Dem~sev DLSO 70:4825 M Mc amara Curr 71:0626 HanTh M21B CNO~ 71:1627 M Byrne M21B C!'O( 72:1428 P Redmond Set 73:0629 P Walsh Set 13:3030 cce-en M55 3ROC 73:4631 B Hollinshead M50 3ROC 74:4232 John Deegan 76:0533 C Bent W40 Set 83:1734 Gerard Phelan M21 Set 84:1835 P Cooke M55 AJAX 84'.3736 Ademar Cooke W17 AJAX 86:5337 Vera Murtagh W50 3RQC 87:2138 Mark Kellet M50 GEN 92:2339 M O'Rourke WI5 GEN 93:0940 BFlanagan W40 94:1841 P Lyons M21B GEN 96:0442 Billy Jordan M50 3ROC 101:0143 B Jordan M21 3ROC 103:4844 SHanley 115:3945 White 117.1046 L N:riiF1on W35 3ROC 130:1247 LQ' W40 Fin 159:0048 A Naughten W40 Fin 159:00

3 DNF/MP/DNP

F Course 2.IKm, 45M, 8 Controls

# Name Class Club Time

IG.m. J ! 49:48

2 Kennedy 50:593 Kcnncdv 51:094 Patrick Haran 55:385 Barn' Redmon I 55:386 T O;Sullivan ~9:277 Sheila Nowlan 3ROC 64:578 M McDonald \V8 ECO 81:359 B O'Neill 86:52

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CLOGHLEAGH 7th April 1991Ajax Orienteers

A Course 8, lKrn, 215M, 26 Controls

# Name Class Club Time

I Barry Dalby M21 3ROC 82:072 Justin May M2J 3ROC 83:083 B Delancy M21A ECO 84:0,4 Gavin Doheny MI7 GEN 87:515 J McCullough M]5 3ROC 93:096 T O'SuUivan M35 CNOa 95:247 Pat Redmond M40 Set d 98:06S B O'Keill M40 CNO 98:189 B O'Brien 3ROC 98:3110 John Delacy M40 ECO 101:3811 Una Creagh \\,21 3ROC 102:2012 K McDooald M]5 ECO 105:5813 Gordon Elliot M19 3ROC 106:1714 Stephen Walsh M21A UCO( 109:0615 Brian Bell M35 GEl' 110:1716 A O'Mullane MI9 G£l'\ 110:5817 F Lafferty M21 Fin 113:2118 Gerry Brady 3ROC 141:01II) Leonard Flood MI9 Fin 161:15

4 DKF/MP/DNP

B Course 6.2Km, 170M, 22 Controls

.u Name Class Club Ttmetr

I M Beary M35 ECO 78:2.42 M McPherson W21 3ROC 80:163 Mark O'Neill MI7 DLSO 80:204 T McCormack M40 GEN 82:035 T Colcbough M21B CNO( 82:496 Shane O'Neill MIS DLSO 84:13i P Butler M40 3ROC 87:5i8 Pat Flannagan M45 3ROC 95:169 J Murphy CNO( 99:3210 J Watt W35 GEl" 101:24II 1\ Butterlield M21A GEN 104:l812 A McGuire 104:5613 Peter O'Neill M45 3ROC 106:0114 B Doheny 106:3615 c osan CNO( 106:4216 D O'Connor M21B CNO( 107:1917 Joe Murphy Cun 108:0418 NC Cranford M45 3ROC 115:0719 David Smith M21B Fin 116:3320 J Bent M50 Sel 116:3521 F Flood M21 Fin 121:5222 E Jones W21 Fin 125:2221 George Sweene C/O 128:1124 J Fitzsimons M40 3ROC 128:2125 David wall M45 GEN 129:4026 David Brooks M50 3ROC 133:2727 S Griffin SJC 136:1128 J Bean M21 Fin 139:2929 Larry Roc M40 3ROC 139:4030 Joe Lawlor GEN 152:04

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D Course 3.6km, 100M, II Controls

.u Name Class Club Timetr

j Sheila Convery WIS

lRO~

41:5&2 A Delacy MIl ECO 47;173 B McGrath M40 3ROC 49:154 Finbarr Ryan M21 CNO 50:395 Maura Higgins W50 SET 63:326 Haul Convery W50 3ROC 64:397 0&1 McNeill MIO ~'\\169:29S Linda Clarke 75:459 D Large W5() GE!' 80:2910 P Chaseul M21 CNO 90:35II M Chamney M21 90:35iz Pauline Sutton W21B eNO. 118:5013 R Greenle W21B CNO~ 118:5814 RG Minshaw M21I;l 126:31

7 D~FiMPjDNP

E Course 2.0Km, 4OM, 8 Comrols

a Name Class Club Time<T.

I Luke Crawford MIO 3ROC 34"'".,_2 A McGrath Mil 46:553 S McCormack MIl GEl" 4i:134 I'McCormack Mil GEl' 47:275 Paula Flanagan WIO 3ROC 48:076 :-;eill Walsh M? 3ROC 49:347 Aisling Walsh WII 3ROC 49:448 D Cleary 50:409 MCleary 51:5410 L Cleary 52:00II P Cleary 52:0612 Niamh Nowlan 3ROC 63:3313 Niamh Lawlor GEN 74:4914 Siobban Reilly 74:4915 David Spillane 84:3716 Shane Reilly 86:0717 Conor Fleming 92:54

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RESULTS of Setanta Oricnteers event, Mullaghmeen. Co. Westmeath, 21st April 1991.w •••• ¥ ••• ~~~~··*···.···c.~*.&~•.*•••••••••••• '*··~~*··••••••....• ORANGE COURSE YEllOW COURSEBROWN COuRSE GREEN COURse ------------- ------------------------- ------------ 1 S. Convery 3ROC W1S 53.16 I S. O'Brien AJAX 1'113 53.021 C. McCann lVO 1'121 73.21 I U. Creagh 3ROC 1'121 56.57 2 O. Brennan SeT 61.07 2 J. o .• OlSO MI3 54.272 B, Delaney ECO 1'121 74.19 3 R. Finlay FERMO 1'140 58.35 3 J. Sherwood FERMO M45 65.49 3 W. O'Nei 11 SET M45 55.443 J. Casey licco M21A 75. 17 4 G. Taylor lKOC 58.58 4 O. Love Iy SET 1'115 67.28 4 F. '0'Nei'" SET 1'140 55.47

4 J. McCullough 3ROC 1'135 75.41 5 G. Fallis FERMO M17 63,10 5 E. Lawrence SET 1'113 5 B. Clear SMYC 57.465 G. Ooherty GEN 1'117 76.31 6 B. O'Nei 11 CNOC M40 64.08 6 C. Caffrey SYMC 70.41 6 O. Clarke OlSO 1'113 58.166 B. McBurney lVO 10121 11. 19 7 P. McCOrmack GEN M45 65.41 7 A. Butler 3ROC 1'119 78.50 7 A. O'Rourke OlSO 1'113 58.447 B. O'Brien 3ROC 10121 79.23 8 S. O'Nenl DlSO 1'115 65.56 8 P. Conboy WHO 1'113 86.25 8 S. O'Raffen;y DlSO 1'113 60.318 M. O'Hara AJAX H40 80.28 9 P. Brennan SET H21 69.42 9 F. Gall igan SET 1'115 107.23 9 S. O'Neill 3ROC 1'111 64.529 K. O'Snen lKOC 1'121 81.46 10 I. McNe ill 3ROC H40 72.30 10 C. Ricketts SeT 131.37 10 E. O'Neill 3ROC 1'111 64.5910 P. Smytn H21 82.16 11 J. I'itzsimons 3ROC 1'140 72.43 11 F. Aherne SET 152.31 11 M. Graham SET 1'113 68.4411 P. Gargan AJAX 1'135 83.02 12 N.C. Crawford 3ROC 1'145 72.48 --------------------------------------- 12 R. HcCon SET 1'113 68.4712 B. Bell GEN 1'135 86.25 13 B. Buckley SET 1'140 73.24 WHITE COURSE 13 O. Hynes SET 1'113 70.3513 l. Byrne Cus. 88.21 14 N. Butterfield GEN M21 73.51 ------------ 14 Taylor lKOC 78. '1814 C. Rot.hery 3ROC 1'121 88.37 74.27 1 l. Crawford 3ROC 1'110 17.37M. Geoghegan AJAX 1'121 89.14 1~ Brennan LKOC 2 P. O'Hara AJAX MID 17.39 15 D. Duggy 82.3515 90.01 H. Creagh 3ROC 1'121 74.54 p, O'Brien 1'110 17.39 16 S. McCormack GEN 1'113 84.3815 P. O'Brien AJAX 1'140 3 AJAX3ROC 1'121 90.18 17 A. Young SET 1'121 77.10 4 R. I'inlay FERMO MID 17.52 17 John ! M13 86.2117 R. BurgessAJAX 10421 90.30 18 M. O'Ne; II DlSO 1'417 77.22 5 J. Brady lKOC 20.51 18 Joseph ! SYMC 89.2918 l. Donovan

M. Flynn CORKO H21 90.45 19 R. Stanley GEN M21 78.05 6 R. Gi 11 LKOC 20.57 H. Whelan DNI'19 94.06 20 U. Masterson 3ROC 1'121 78.49 l. O'Hara Z1.01 ----------------------------------------20 H. HcPherson 3ROC 1'121 7 AJAX 1'111M. O'Keefe FIN 1'121 94.25 21 P. Flanagan 3ROC 10445 78.59 8 T. McGlynn LKOC 21. 1421 79.3322 T. Russell ECO H40 98.55 22 T.Conlon 9 N. Morgan lKOC 21.40lVO 1'121 114.59 23 A.8.law GEN 1'155 79.37 10 A. Bogue lKOC 22.5423 S. Carson 3ROC M50 81.14Ell iot 3ROC 10419 124.22 2~ O. Brooks 11 J. G,.,mes lKOC 22.5924 G. J. O'Nei 11 FIN 1'145 81.5925 B. HcElduff 1'121 3ROC 128.00 25 1'145 84.57 12 E. Rei 11 y LKOC 23.001'135 3ROC 129.11 26 P. O'Neill 3ROC 13 K. HcCormack GEN 1'111 23.5626 G. Brady134.55 27 T. McGrath 3ROC M45 85.13

J, Doyle lKOC 24.2027 E. Casey 1'121 TRIM 3ROC 10440 86.34 1428 J. Rowe H21 TRIM 134.59 28 P . Butler 15 O. Hetherton lKOC 24.51DNF 29 T. Fin 1ay FERMO 1'140 88.03 16 J. Connolly lKOC 25.0629 G.Cunningham lKOC 88.2930 G. Kingston DNF 30 J. d'Arcy

89.06 17 A. Russel ECO MID 25.48

I I-31 R. Norton 3ROC MSO O. cor ri gan lKOC 28.18---------------------------------------- 1832 Yorke ! CNOC 90.03 19 C. McConn LKOC 28.24RED COURSE 33 McKIernan 90.15 20 T. Hoban LKOC 29.54---------- 34 E. Jones FIN 1'121 91.20 21 P. I'liltlagan 3ROC 1'110 30.121 J. May 3ROC 1'121 27.18 35 M. lunt GEN M50 9 1.40 22 C. Russon lKOC 30.512 M. walsh 3ROC 37.26 36 F. McCormack 91.43 23 O. Touhey CUS 31,183 K. Convery 3ROC 1'117 38.10 37 O. Menne11y lKOC H21 98. 16 24 M. Rei Ily lKOC 32.404 C. Dunlop SET 40.18 38 T. Joyce FUCCO H21 98.22 25 P. McCann lVO MID 33.105 A, O'Mullane GEN 48.00 39 M. Regan 100.16 26 B.mcEvoy lKOC 33.476 B. Cryan 3ROC 10421 49.55 40 E. McBurney lVO 1'121 100.21 27 P. Ginnell 34.307 C. Ryan OlSO MIS 51.21 41 G. Sweeney CNOC H21 101.47 28 C. Moynagh 34.318 A. de Ris AJAX W17 55.02 42 i, . Mackey WHO 1'113 103.00 29 C. Ginnell 34.519 J. Butler 3ROC HIS 55.08 43 J. Mackey WHO 10413 105,16 30 E. Gi 11 LKOC 38.3010 S, Dempsey DlSO HIS 55.19 44 P. Keeley 106.02 31 E. Fl tz lInons 3ROC WID 43.1411 T, Cleary 3ROC W45 57.43 45 E. Hume M45 106.4132 S. Rei Ily 44.3212 O. Hickey DLSO HIS 60.13 46 O. watt GEN H45 107.30 33 N. Lalor GEN WID 44.3513 T. Coneff OlSO 1'117 60.26 47 J. Lalor GEN H35 108.40 34 S. Rel1l y 44.4814 N. Lee 3ROC 1'121 60.47 48 B. Hollinshead 3ROC H50 I12.03 35 J. Downes lKOC 52.0115 J. t.ynam 3RQC H65 6 1.05 49 J. Touhey OUS i 12.53

16 B. Flanagan' 3ROC '1'145 57.00 50 l. Convery 3ROC 1'150 113.5717 A. deRis AJAX 1'119 67.46 5I Z. Kingston FERMO 1'121 115.3318 A. McCormack GEN W~O 67.54 52 M. Hewson GEN 1'160 128.5919 H. Convery 3ROC 1'150 67.59 53 C. NiDhearsur UCCO 1'121 134.1020 R. Rice AJAX 1'145 70.07 54 J. O'Brien AJAX 1'135 134.1321 C. Carroll 3ROC H55 72.20 ---------------------------------------- **************************************************************************22 E. Kernan AJAX W21 76.0623 B. Daly lKOC 1'121 77 .02 SETANTA MOUNTAIN MARATHON24 T. Murphy lKOC 78.01

Sheridan UCOO 1'121 80.32 Course Data i 1s -------------------------25 A.26 O. Sheridan UCOO 1'121 80.34 -------------- Date: Sunday, July 21st. , 199127 D. O'Murchu TRIM 1'140 85.23 Brown: S.4km, 280m28 F. Brady lKOC 86.59 Green: 6.3km, 175m Start: Glenmacnass car-park, Laragh, Co. Wicklow.29 O. Large GEN 1'150 87.17 Red: 4.3km, 120m30 T. Morrissey LKOC 92.41 Orange 3.Skm Time: 11.00 - 12.3031 N. Creagh 3ROC WS5 92.42 Yellow 2.Skm32 K. DurkIn lKOC 83.34 White 1.8km33 w. Regan FERMO 10455 100.02 This event is open to experienced Orienteers, Hi 11 Runners, Mountaineers,34 P. Hay 3ROC 1'150 101.01 Planner: E. lawrence etc. Participants should be prepared for adverse weather conditions.35 O. eralg lKOC 102.18 Cenuo IIer: C. Dunlop36 M. Flynr> lKOC 108.23 *********************************** ••*************************************37 J. Butler 3ROC 1'140 131. 1438 K. Carroll 3ROC MIS 133. 1139 v. Hurtagh 3ROC 1'150 148.05---------------------------------------- The Irish Orienteer 31

A.Barry NIO GEN 51. 52 270R.Barry M13 GEN 5;1. 05 21')0B.,). M21 2ROC 44. 10 250RESULTS of Fingal Score Event, Killiney Hill Park, 5/5/91 Jl'lnnieBr"ol-;s W19 'ROC:- 45. 00 2')(1

MARY HEALY W3S GEN }6. 30 240D.Healy M7 GEN 38. 16 240B. ,1. .M50 3RO(, 45. 10 230

l. F.Fitzsimons W35 3R()(~ 50. 17 230S.McNabb 'M17 FIN 52. 55 230

Name Class Club Tjnlc Score R.O COLMAIN GF.N 47. DB 220S. Dempsey 47. 29 220

D. Quinn (;EN '-19. .24 5~;O D. Br-ooke M50 3ROC '14. 10 :'!10D.Cunnlnghom M21 3ROC ~lq . 27 55() T. Coli ins FIN 50. 23 210Gavan Doherty M17 GEN "19. 42 550 S.Bell 200J .McCullough M35 ,RPr 41. 01 550 N.Lalor W).O GEN 39. 08 200G.Brady 3ROC 42. 06 550 Lee x 3 3ROC 46. 59 200R. Burgess W2I :JROC tl/~ 05 '550 E. Thompson M13 SET 48. 09 200B. Bell M35 GEN 46. 22 !150 E. 0,Brc t cbc an M13 SET 48. 09 200C.Rothery M21 3ROC 17. 011 550 N. I'llCholmein GEN 47. 08 180B. Doherty W45 l,EN 46. 59 ::;00 L.C.Crowford MI0 3ROC 47. 51 180M.fleory EeO .\<1. 39 500 V. Murtagh W50 3ROC 56. 46 170R.H.Norton M50 ,R0C' 1\9. 47 41")(1 Martin family 3ROC 43. 04 160p.rJ·Nelll Mil5 3R('II~ '17. 413 490 J.McNabb M15 FIN 48. 39 150N.C.Crawford M4S 3ROC l\9. 03 49(1 A. Wolah W9 3ROC 35. 28 140M.Geoghegan M21 ~.) J\X 52. 4" 480 Nlomh Nowlan W10 3ROC 41. 16 140P.Bub ler M40 3ROC 45. f17 470 J. Kean 41- 37 140J.Watt W3'5 GEN ')2. IJO 460 L.Maron 42. 19 140H.White M45 3ROC S2. 4(1 1\60 J. Mohon 42. 27 140B.Hollinshood M50 1ROC' <l7. 50 '130 O.Nellls 47. 07 140l\.Bunlaw M55 GEl'! I\IJ. ~,8 430 N.Goodall W8 GEN 50. 52 14()D.Watt M4'5 r.EN ,IfI . ,17 420 S. Healy Wll GEN 50. 52 140C.Dunlop M55 SE.'T 50. 42 42(1 N. Martin 57. 38 140M.Walsh W40 '3ROC 46. 09 410 P/ Martln 67. 30 140Don Short M:l (NOe '16. 47 ';191'1 F j one Marti n 67. 38 140Rut.h Lynam f:NOC 30. 31 390 1'1.& D. Walsh M7/8 :.lROC 33. 52 13('M.Nolan W40 3ROC 28. 14 360 E. Lawless 56. 27 J 30D.O ',Colma]n GEN ·1t) . 1'1 380 Tlmmy Carr 60. 36 130J. 0'Nei 11 W45 FIN 51- 53 '380 n. Leahy OLV 48. 51 120BOG HOPPER QRR 49. t\:") 360 P. BYRNE OLV 48. 53 120M.Hewson M60 GEN '34. 56 36(1 ,).Gilmor<:l OLV 48. 54 120J.autl~r M15 3ROC 48. 'l.7 350 She il a Nowl an we 3ROC :J5. 58 ltOo & T McNeill M10 3ROC ·16. 59 340 C. Fitzsimons W5 3roc 34. 16 110P .Flanagan snoc 48. 02 340 A.M.Woods FIN 21. 48 100M.Kavanagh 4Cl• 10 340 Mary Burke 21. 49 100Pat Flanagan ::IROC "'7. rr )40 C,u'meI Woods FIN 33. 28 100H. Gibson H21 SET 44. 30 330 Z. WOODS FIN 35. 20 100C.O'Brolchilin Mll SET 4'5. 08 330 C & V Conaughton OLV 54. 26 100B. Flanagan 4€1. 02 :330 c. White vi o 50. 25 90D.Maher 48. 45 3~0 H. Burgess VET <16. 18 80F.Hoey FCA 52. 10 320 T. Hovi 11e rCA 65. 17 70Nigel /001111 en 49. 24 :'1.0 Walsh McGrath MHJ/ll 3ROr.: 45. 00 40Bevan/Ashley ~'3. 413 ai o O.Ml.\irgheaaa 3R0C 63. 11 20M.Galligan GEN 4~. 40 300 L. Connoughton ECO 100. 57 -20J. F'Hzsimons M40 3HOC 46. '13 300 l\.Maher OLV 84. 13 -40T.Keegan M2JB IJCDO 36. 24 20(1 [1. Connaughton OLV 84. 07 -50M.O Colmain C:Ctl SO. ~n ::'''0_,. J. Sma 11 77 . 55 -50JOE' Lalor GEN 4':" IU len M. Beary 82. 48 -70Morris/Fox 47. 34 28iJ T. Moran 116. 20 -340M.O'Rourke W15 GEN 50. )0 270

The Irish Orienteer 32'lh£.lrisIJ Oriemeer 33

RESULTS OF L.EIIiSTBR 2-0"'Y O-RINCEN 25-2'/5/31

Day 1 was a ECO Event. Brendan Oelaney and Kieran He Donaldplanned 50 .. of the cour5es each and controlled the otbera.The Organlaer was John de Lacy. Thank a also for help tro.ICO Club lIembers.

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The lROC Ivent on Day 2 at Clara was organlaed by Nlqel ca.pbell-Crawford and Robin Horton. The coure.' on the new .ap which wereall planned by Harold Vhlte were controlled by John IIc Cui laughand Hlchael IIc "'ullU" The usual thlnka for help fro. otherlROC Club Hembers.

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LOST PROPERTY:Found in the Registration cur al Day 2 of the Leinster O-RingenIII Clara was a compass and unuched whistle.1'0 claim this contact Brian Hollinshead (01-2881456).

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DAY 150.4249.3955.1159.1151.1456.S)54.0964.3961.2161.4265.2115.2167.5511.1417.2690.0090.2096.05

102.29n.1952.5154.10".006'.12".5410.45n."'7.01

121.00114.01148.08

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DAY 218.H43.2641.ll17.n43.1047.3650.nH.O'f6.1147.45H.0253.5317.4166.0265.5057.1151.2166.5485.08DISQDIll'

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TOTAL.9.26H.0596.5091.11100.2410 .. "104.4010....109.04109.17109.29lU.U145.42147.16141.16141.11141.41162.59187.17

ContI .•.LEINSTER T"'~DAY O-RINCEN 25-2~/5/91

BROlIN DAY 1 'I i t. ·,t .• COIITROLSDAY 2 a.n. H5. 2.1 CONTROLS

NAKI! CLASS CLUB DAY 1 O ...Y 2 'l'OTALJ. IIAY 1121 lROC 81.19 60.54 144.13C. ROTHERY H21 lROC 91.09 10.20 167.29G. DOHERTY H11 GEM 99.18 61.51 16'1.35B. O'BRIEN H21 lROe 109.05 13. 49 182.54C. BRADY 1121 lROC 164.00 91. 0' 220.04B. DALBY "21 lROC 110.25P. SHYTH "21 -- 119.59.... YOUNG 1121... 9£T DNI'A. PIli H21A IIAT-O - 65.41I. He OOHALO illS £CO 73.05B. BELL 1115 Ct;1I - 7l.~0II. CRANT - IIAT-O - 91.20II. GEOGHEGAK 1121 AJAX - 91.20T. O'SULLIVAN - CIIOC - 0111'

il&I DAY 1 t .1 t. J."'!":. CONTROLSDAY 2 1.1t. 320. 11 CONTROLS

IIAHIl CLASS CLUB DAY 1 D...Y 2 TOTALI. LOUGHHAN 1121 CIIOC 92.21 it." 1~6 .11II. IIC PHERSON V21 lROC 80.05 16.19 156.24C. O'IIEILL H21 CIIOC 86.28 - 156.48P. BUTLER 1140 lROC 104.49 6 .. 4l 110.49K. CONVilRY Vl1 lROC 121. 31 67.10 188 . .,I. JONIlS V21 PIN 120.55H. GBOGIlEGAH 1121 AJAX 124.18II. DUI'FY 1121 CNOC 128.41I. DUlIN! 1121 ISTO 129.25C. HC LOUGHLIN H1S )ROC Dill' 0111'J. SCAIIHIlLL 1121A CORK-O DNI'I. KORalSS 11211 LIilS-O OHI'R. U VAllAOlI V21N/C COD DNP 65.55A. O'IIULLAKE 1119 GBN 0111' -P. I'LAKAGAK 1145 lROC DIll' 89.HT. RUSSELL H40 ICO - Sa.26P. "C CORItAC!( 1145 GEII - 63.45C. O'II£ILL - - 10.20V. JONES 1115 COD - 80. ~OH. III CAITHRE? 1121... COD - .2. 29II. SOIlH'RS 1119 DLSO - 13.12II. REED "50 I'ItRHO - ".nJ. RDVE V218 TRIHO - 90.45D. KEAlfB 1121 TRIllO - 91.11T. lie CORIIAc!( 1140 GBH - DNP ,II. HORAN IIllS - - DNf'

Coot/ •••LlINSTIlR TWO-DAY O-RtNOIN 25-26/5/9~

IlI.Y!il DAY 1 ") ; k-. ~,,~.fA COHTROLSD...Y 2 1.Ok. 901l 11 CONTROLS

IIAHIl CLASS CLUB DAY 1 DAY 2 TOTALA. IIC BRIDI VllB GEII 56.31"H SCllA&1'8R - - 124.00A. de LACY 1113 BCO 21.06a. RICHlY 1121 CNOC 29.31J. GARETH - - - 36.21P. O'MBILL 1140 8IT - 39.10a , A O'HIllLL - 42.28A.POWl! 1110 SIT H.llU. III CHOLHAIII - CEN - 50.50CATHY IIUSOH - - - ~0.51lI'IHA J.tJI£ URBII - - - 54.21ROBII! BARRY - - - 56.58D. O'COLIWI - GiN - 59.42II. O'COL",," - GRN - 60.11V. IIUUAGN 1150 lROC - 60.50ADIUAK/LARRY/O ...VID - - - 61. 25I. HOOHIY - - 65.15H. RUSSRLL - - 65.18JOIlIi , ClliI8TOPHIlR - 71. 22HONIIILLY laOC - 72.21PlTAl , IIilVi - - - 72.41clla I S/ AIIIII/I'l 0111. - 73.251.11101. , 1'10111. - 77.2&PAUL , IIICIIABL DIll'JOClLYIl , CL? - - DISQII. He OIIlLlY - - DHF

WII DAY 1 t ... k. L • CONTROLSDAY 2 Ln. 20. 1 COIITROLS

NAHI CLASS CLUB DAY 1 DAY 2 TOTALII. NOLAII VI0 lROC 21.10 10.39 11.49P. I'LAKAGAN 1110 lROC 29.10 11.16 40.46I. rLAillCAII 1110 laOC 26.10 15. )] u.nC. de lIS V9 AJAX 16.51 25.20 62.11C.II. BUIWI 1113 leo 30.19II. , C. IlUIiAil 1111 ICC 32.10J. HlIlIIAII V19 ICO 32.31C. WITII VIO - - 1).10D. IIALSH Ha lROC - 14.49II. VALSH H1 1ilOC 14.51C. VALSH 1110 - - 15.11A. IIALSH V9 1iOC 15.16A. RUSSELL - ICO - 16.11It. POVER 114 SIlT 19.20T. O'SULLIVAK - CHOC - 21.48I. I'IT2SIIIOHS 115 lROe - )).06