Selection Announcement

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been selected to compete for Ireland in upcoming international races:

Orienteering World Cup Round 1 – Idre Fjäll, Sweden, 18-22nd June: Rosalind Heron (3ROC)

European Orienteering Championships – Hasselt, Belgium, 27-31st August: Aoife McCavana (GEN) and Josh O’Sullivan Hourihan (CorkO)

There will be further selections later in the summer for EOC and World Cup in Switzerland. Thanks to the selectors for their work and best of luck to the athletes.

The Orienteering Ireland High Performance Team is Niamh O’Boyle, Toni O’Donovan and Marcus Pinker

EYOC and JWOC Team Selection

The selectors met last Friday night, and spent several days deliberating over the selections for this summer’s internationals. The following teams have been selected:

European Youth Orienteering Championships – Team for 2025

W16
Aoife Masterson
Deirbhile Hassett
Fionnula Rowe
Niamh Browne

M16
Eoin Simpson
Fionn Buckley
James Ewart
Liam O’Donnell

W18
Ellie Simpson
Eve Buckley
Sadhbh Hassett

M18
Aidan McKenna
Eoin O’Donnell
Gerry Browne
Liam Casey

Junior World Orienteering Championships – Team for 2025

W20
Eve Buckley
Emily Rowe

M20
Daire O’Brien
James Hottinger
Oscar Rowe

Congratulations to all the athletes that have been selected, I feel the selectors have given us a good pair of teams for both events, where we have opportunities to do well in both.

In specific regards to the M18 class in EYOC and JWOC, the selectors had an additional note:

“The focus of the M18 selection has been to pick a strong group who will be competitive both individually and as a team and whose focus should be on EYOC. Some of the athletes may be disappointed not to be also selected for JWOC but the selectors feel that their focus for this year should be on EYOC and then they can build on this experience for later competition at JWOC.”

Once again: huge thanks to the selectors (Ruth Lynam, Mike Long, Steph Pruzina and Darren Burke) who work behind the scenes each year to keep an eye on the juniors but stay distant enough to be able to make the sometimes hard decisions that are required to make teams. They have a huge collective experience around these kinds of events, and we should all be hugely grateful to them for the work they do.

New High Performance Manager

Orienteering Ireland are happy to announce Niamh O’Boyle as the new High Performance Manager for the Senior squad.

Niamh has an incredible amount of knowledge on the topic with a very impressive list of results to back it up. We wish her all the best in this role!

Niamh will be assisted in this role by Toni O’Donovan & Marcus Pinker.

#dreamteam #highperformace #Orienteering

We’re hiring!

Orienteering Ireland are delighted to announce that we are in a position to hire a Regional Development Officer for the Greater Dublin area.

If you or someone you know might be interested in applying for this role, we would love to hear from them.

The Role Description can be found at: RDO Vacancy 2025 Jan.pdf

Why Work With Us?

Competitive salary.

Flexible working arrangements.

Working in a task and goal orientated environment.

Working in a collaborative environment where new ideas are encouraged to achieve our goals!

Any queries can be sent to vacancies@orienteering.ie

How to Apply

Please submit your cover letter outlining your suitability for this role & CV to the Chairperson at vacancies@orienteering.ie before 5pm on 19-Jan-2025. Applicants using Indeed, can submit both on the Indeed job portal.

Orienteering Photography Competition

We would like to increase our supply of Irish Orienteering photos for use in general publicity, social media and on websites. Orienteering Ireland is running a photo competition with a closing date of Friday 20th December, 2024.

Prize categories* are as follows:

· “Sport for life” first prize €100 / Second prize €50 / Third prize €25

· “Adventure” first prize €100 / Second prize €50 / Third prize €25

· “Behind the scenes” first prize €100 / Second prize €50 / Third prize €25

Prizes are All4one vouchers worth the amount stated above are awarded.

Anyone can enter as many times as they want. The photos/videos are to be of Irish Orienteering anywhere showing any aspect of the sport, and must give a good image of the sport for use in printed matter and/or websites. Photos/video must be submitted in digital format. The submitted media will be stored in an online library for use by OI with the photo attributed to the owner. Entries will be published on the web as they are received. Please send entries to info@orienteering.ie by email or share to google drive.

Entries must include the photo owner’s name, which may be published, and a contact point (email, phone or address) which will not be published. Wherever possible a description of the photo would be appreciated (date, venue, orienteer’s name, club, course, etc.)

Rules are as follows:

· The competition is open to orienteers and non-orienteers alike.

· Entrants can enter as many times as they wish with non-duplicate photographs or may include multiple entries in one submission.

· Entries will be accepted any time up to midnight on Sunday 15th December 2024.

· Photos must be taken less than 1 year old (taken on or after September 1st 2023)

· Entries to be sent to info@orienteering.ie

· Each entry must include photographer’s name and email as well as the entry category.

· Each entrant must request permission from the person/s in the photo/video that they are happy for the photo to be entered into the competition.

· Name of entrant will be published.

· Where possible each entry should also include background information on the photograph (date, venue, orienteer’s name, club, course, etc)

· Photos must be of Irish orienteer(s), in any location. This can include orienteers or helpers at an orienteering activity at Irish locations, or Irish orienteers competing outside of Ireland.

· Photos can be entered by anyone, once the original photographer (or photograph owner) is in agreement with the rules outlined here.

· Photos entered may be used by the OI (on a non-commercial basis) for publicity/websites, printed material etc, and credit will be attributed where possible, although the OI cannot be held responsible for publication by third parties of photographs without accreditation.

· Categories are as follows: Sport for life, Adventure, Behind the Scenes (These categories are open to the individuals interpretation)1d

· Prizes will be awarded €100 for 1^st, €50 for 2^nd, and €25 for 3^rd in each category.

· Judging will be by an independent panel of orienteers.

· The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Good Luck!

Team Ireland for Senior Home International 2024

The SHI Selectors are delighted to announce Team Ireland for the Senior Home International 2024.  The competition will be held in Scotland, on the 7th & 8th of September.  We congratulate the team on their selection, and wish the team the very best of luck with the competition.

Susan Lambe, Dave Masterson & Philip Baxter (Selectors)

W20

Ellie Simpson

Emily Rowe

Eve Buckley

Reserve: TBC

M20

Daire O’Brien

Fionn O’Callaghan

Tivon Tyner

Reserve: Josh Hoare

W21

Aine McCann

Aoife McCavana

Aoife O’Sullivan

Éadaoin McCavana

Emer Perkins

Rosalind Heron

Reserve: TBC

M21

Cillín Corbett

Eoghan Whelan

Josh Hoare

Liam Cotter

Mark Stephens

Paul Pruzina

Reserve: TBC

Team Manager TBC

All reserves are non-travelling, unless already selected as part of the team

We’re hiring!

Orienteering Ireland are delighted to announce that we are in a position to hire a Regional Development Officer for the Greater Dublin area.

If you or someone you know might be interested in applying for this role, we would love to hear from them.

Why Work With Us?

Competitive salary.

Flexible working arrangements.

Working in a task and goal orientated environment.

Working in a collaborative environment where new ideas are encouraged to achieve our goals!

Any queries can be sent to vacancies@orienteering.ie

The Role Description can be found below:

Entries closing for the Irish Orienteering Championships

Entries for the Irish Orienteering Championships are closing on Sunday 14th April.

Relay entries have an extension until Tuesday 23d April.

Entry details and other information is at: https://ioc.orienteering.ie/home

Can’t wait to see you all there!

Now it’s time to register to Jukola relay 2024!

World’s largest orienteering relay, Lakia-Jukola will be run in Kauhava, Finland 15.-16.6.2024. The first and the cheapest registration period will close this upcoming Friday 2^nd Feb at 11.59 pm. Remember to register your team and additional services like tent places and pay the registration fee by then.

Go to the registration HERE

Check out the Event Invitation HERE

SHI 2024 Selection Policy

The Senior Home International is taking place on the 7th/8th September in Scotland. It will consist of a Relay race on the Saturday and an Individual race on the Sunday.

Team will consist of: 6 x M21, 6 x W21, 3 x M20, 3 x W20

The purpose of this policy:

• To enable the selectors to select the best possible team
• To provide eligible athletes an opportunity to claim a place in the team

Selection criteria:

• Selectors are Susan Lambe, Philip Baxter and Dave Masterson.
• The team will be announced at the end of June 2024.
• Athletes must declare themselves available for selection by Sunday 26th May 2024
• W/M18s can declare themselves available for selection, as long as they are aged 18 or over
  by the date of travel
• If W/M20s want to be considered for 21s they should declare for both 20s and 21s.
• It is recommended that you run in the age class you wish to be selected for, or where relevant
  you run the same course (eg if 18s run the same course as 20s).
• Athletes must inform Susan Lambe of any illness or injury before any particular selection race.
• A senior member of the selected team will be asked to act as Team Manager over the
  weekend.
• In the case of withdrawals, the selectors will select a suitable replacement using all selection
  races (below).
• We will select the team with the aim of achieving the strongest set of results. Athletes may
  be selected to gain experience, and we would encourage all older juniors to consider putting
  themselves forward for selection.
• It is each athlete’s responsibility to ensure they are eligible to compete for Ireland on the date
  of the competition – see rules on the British Orienteering website https://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/home_internationals

The first 4 places in the W/M 21 team and the first 2 places in the W/M 20 team will be selected
using selection races 1-3 (listed below). To fill the remaining places selectors will look at all known
form, particularly from races 1-3 & a-b (listed below). Please note that athletes may be selected if
the selectors feel that they will help improve the team’s results. When it has not been possible to
select a full team from the named races an athlete may be selected to gain experience.

Please note the SHI is a self-funded event. You may be eligible to apply for funding from clubs, councils
etc. NI athletes are welcome to read the NIOA policy on International Representation.

Official policy downloadable below.