Annual Awards
Orienteering Ireland presents three annual awards. These awards are of equal status and reflect our community’s recognition of an individual’s contribution to the sport.
The Spirit of Orienteering Award
This is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding service or performance in our sport. It recognises exceptional efforts in a single year or a long term contribution that makes a lasting impact on our sport.
We are honoured to present the Spirit of Orienteering Award to Eve Buckley of Kerry Orienteers, in recognition of her outstanding orienteering performances in Ireland and as part of our National Squad over the past year.
Eve, who has been orienteering since she was a teenager has consistently achieved personal achievement goals and is a fantastic role model for women and young people in our sport.
The Mac TÍre Award
This awarded for the development of orienteering with awardees being nominated by our members. Activities such as creating a new map, a new technology, bringing our sport to a new part of the country, revitalising a neglected area of our sport, staging a major event etc are typical of the work done by our previous award winners.
We are proud to recognise Martin Flynn of WEGO for his outstanding contribution to the sport of orienteering over the years. Martin developed Ór which has become the mainstay for providing event timing and results for orienteering clubs across Ireland. Martin continues to provide updates to the software and is always on hand for advice when called upon.
Photo credit – Klaudia Topor
Performance EXcellence Awards
Introduced in 2012, this is awarded to members of our National Squads who perform to a high level at an international event.
Junior Squad AchIEvement Awards
Introduced in 2025, these awards recognise the achievement of being the best placed Irish athlete at JWOC & EYOC annually.
Volunteer Coin
This coin is awarded to volunteers who have served with distinction on OI committees or in supporting roles to recognise their contributions to our sport where another OI award is not suitable.
