... in the local park the streets, Lane WAys of sneem and some wooded areas. There will be courses that will cater for all ages including beginners course, a medium course and a longer course for the more adventurous competitors. Long 3km (technical)Medium 2.1km (easier navigation with some challenge added)Short 1.4 km (easy navigation) Start times will be between 11am-1pm and registration will be signposted from sneem south Square. As well as having a technical long course there will be courses suitable for complete beginners and we will be available at t ...

Hi Folks  Fingal Orienteers would like to welcome you to an evening orienteering in lovely Bayside for an urban Come and Try it.  Starts 1800-1930, this will be an SI event so bring dibbers  Edit :  I had said the event would be in Dart Stn Car Park, apparently this is now wrong Back to Bayside shopping centre HERE Square N, Kilbarrack Lower, Dublin 13/@53.3886692,-6.1404827,218m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4867054129bc158f:0xec1aa23421224818!8m2!3d53.3890988!4d-6.1413225 Sorry for any changes  Rgds Chris Slattery 

Entries are now open for the Drogheda Urban Event, which takes place on December 14th. There will be 3 Courses available Long 7.5km, Medium 4km and Short 2km. These are approximate actual run distances. The courses will be mainly run on 90% to 95% will be hard surface, the rest is grassland. All courses will cross public roads. so, care should be taken when crossing and, remember, courtesy should be shown to members of the public. Entry on the day will incur a €2 surcharge. SI Air will be in use.   The start and finish will be located close to the Bolton Square Car Park, just at the back of the Louth County Council buildings. A92P440 Parking is available here and at locations close by.  

This Sunday 20th July kerry orienteers are hosting a sprint style orienteering event in sneem, kerry. This event will be part of the sneem family festival which is being run at the same time. Start times are between 11am-1pm. There are three courses Long 2.9km 15 controlsMedium 2.0km 12 controlsShort 1.1km 9 controls Sneem map is of sneem village which has a good mix of laneways, park lands and some forrested area. The courses will suit everyone from complete beginners to experienced orienteers looking for a good sprint course. Adults €5U18 €3 Look out for signs on the south Square in sneem. There is no dedicated parking as the festival will be taking place but sneem is a small village and easy to get around on foot. Come along and enjoy the event and stick around for all the other activities taking place.

3ROC have been using Aqualaser paper from the UK (made in Germany, I think) for a few years and it is very tough paper although the ink can tend to flake off when it is folded repeatedly or if it is abraded. The most recent event we ran used A4 "Rite in the Rain" paper which we got from Poland and Reads printed the maps on a laser printer. (Reads Dublin city centre branch recently moved from Nassau St to Middle Abbey St). %0D%0A The paper has been made in the USA since 1913 so it has a good track record. It's only 75 grams per Square metre so it's lighter than normal "paper" paper but it seems to retain the ink well when it is folded. It comes in a pack of 200 sheets. Postage from Poland is free if you buy more than €75 worth, equivalent to 2 and a bit packs at about €37 for 200 sheets (realistically three packs = €111, or 18.5c per page). It came in the post in a few days from www.specshop.pl. See here. %0D%0A John McC

Night O event in Hollywood village. We are holding this event on Saturday 15th Feburary. Starts from 18:00 to 19:00. Courses Long & Short. Under 16's accompanied. Parking. Please park in the village and WAlk up to the forest. There is no parking up at the forest entrance. The finish and registration will be just inside the barrier, so you can leave a jacket and pick it up after your run. Major parts of the forest have been felled recently and extraction and haulage is just about complete. The going in the felled areas and the newly ...

... for orienteering to become an Olympic sport (see below).  With the Winter Olympics coming up, we again "wave the orange and white"!  Yes, orienteering would be a summer event, but any Olympics in the news cycle is an opportunity to advance our cause.   %0D%0A   %0D%0A As before, please visit the links below for inspiration and justification, and forward as you wish.  We specifically invite and encourage orienteering organization leaders to approach their national Olympic committees and the Inte ...

Venue: Baltinglass OETC, Weaver’s Square, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow Date: 21st/22nd March 2018 Duration: 0900 – 1700 each day Cost: €130 per peron Booking: baltinglassoec@kwetb.ie The award is aimed at club orienteers, teachers, youth leaders and outdoor pursuits instructors that are interested in introducing people to the sport of orienteering. Prerequisites are that candidates have a basic knowledge of the sport, including some event experience, ideally this should consist of a minimum of three public events on Orange or Red courses. During the training course trainee instructors will: Explore a range of activities suitable for the introduction of orienteering in the classroom, school grounds and in local parks and woods. Plan and deliver sessions that develop basic understanding of orienteering skills & navigation techniques. Be introduced to the IOA Orienteering Ability Awards as a progressive scheme for the advancement of skills in novice and beginner participants. Become familiar with equipment and skills necessary to organise orienteering activities. Learn to carry out risk assessments and use these in conjunction with the orienteering venue terrain guide. Use course planning tools to organise simple orienteering activities in private grounds, parks and small woods. Upon completion of the training course, candidates will be required to log teaching hours and complete a practical teaching assessment to qualify as an IOA Orienteering Instructor.

The registration for tomorrow evening\'s event in Bayside will be in Bayside Square, which is about 300M south from Bayside DART station.It will be signposted from the DART station and from the coast road to Howth. Coming from the city it\'s the first left turn after the FALKS LIGHTING shop. There will be 2 courses available, LONG 4.5K and SHORT 2.3 K.  Climb is minimal. The event is on streets and some parkland. Bayside is an intricate are of streets and laneways. The courses will also pass under the railway to part of Baldoyle. Registration from 6.00 PM unbtil 7.30.  SI will be used. The controls will chained to trees lamposts fences etc, similar to Skerries.

Quote from psmythirl on June 9, 2017, 11:34 The days when control descriptions need to be printed in black and white only are long gone Don\'t agree Paul, these are international specifications and I doubt there are colour printers availabe to all and sundry all over the world. This would be a radical change to the proposals so won\'t even be considered this time around. Agree there is confusion possibilities with my suggestion for out of bounds area symbol but it wouldn\'t be alone in that! So, alternatively instead of Square it could be circle with 3 horizontal lines.

I am broadly in favour of the changes although after three decades with the existing symbols it will probably take me another decade to get used to the new ones. I agree with Angus that the \'Out of Bounds area\' symbol is ridiculous. I have a suggestion for the IOF if you WAnt to provide feedback - Colour control descriptions. The days when control descriptions need to be printed in black and white only are long gone and there is no reason why we cannot have a black dot for a boulder and a brown dot for a knoll on the control descriptions. In additio ...

... will be adopted. There aren\'t radical changes. More detail on clarity, some new symbols and some changes, mainly minor. Page 14, the overprinting illustration is incorrect in my downloaded copy. I think it depends on PDF reader used.Page 18, New prominent landform feature. Brown open triangle. We\'ve unofficially been using a solid brown triangle for platforms. In my opinion this open triangle will suffice perfectly well.Page 24, Blue circle replaced by blue Square.Page 24, New prominent WAter feature. Blue Star replaces blue XPage 26, Open land with tre ...

... same box according to their splits. On the Medium course, Eadoin McKavanagh would have leapt into 2nd place if allowances were made for the time difference. However, as this WAs the only significant change I plan to avoid altering the results any further. On the short course, Jana Cox WAs shown as taking over 2 minutes on the run in even though I saw her running. So no explanation there. Control 231 caused some angst to the security guards at the City Square shopping centre when they finally surfaced at 12. Apologies to anyone who got the health and saftey ...