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Hi All,

Next Sunday Ajax is orgaising the Leinster League event in Bull Island. Please see the details below or on our website (http://ajaxoc.blogspirit.com/).

Hope to see you there!

Event Location: The next Leinster League event will be held on Sunday 10 March 2019 on Bull Island, Dublin. (Grid Reference: O 234 370).
Event Directions and Parking: Signposted from the coast road (James Larkin Road). Parking, registration, start and finish are near the interpretive center at the end of the causeway.

Terrain: Grass-covered sand dunes with many small paths, isolated trees and man-made features. Marshes are a little wet in places.

Map: Maps are printed on water resistant material at a scale of 1:5,000 for all courses. The map shows the island in two sections laid out side-by-side on an A3 sheet. Contour interval is 2.5 meters. Power lines are not displayed and the magnetic grid lines run 45 degrees to the edge of the map. The Brown course uses a modified map with only contour and marsh detail displayed. Control descriptions for all courses will be available at registration and will also be printed on the map. The Yellow course has a taped route on one leg.

Registration and Entry Fees: Enter at the event. If you are new to orienteering please let the organisers know and they will show you what to do.
Adult: €8
Junior/Full-time Student/OAP/Concession: €5
Family: €20
There will be a €2 surcharge for anyone not already a member of an orienteering club. The surcharge will be waived if the participant registers with Ajax Orienteers at the event. (Membership is free for the first year).

Timing: SportIdent (SI) timing will be used. SI cards are available for hire at event registration for €2. You must download your SI card after orienteering, whether you complete the course or not. Otherwise we will not know if you have finished.
Start-times: 11:00 – 13:00.
Courses close: 15:00.

Event Officials: 
Controller: Donal Wickham
Planner: Aonghus O’Cleirigh

Course Details:
Brown – 8.8 k, 30 controls, (contours/marsh only)
Blue - 8.3 k, 29 controls
Green – 5.1 k, 29 controls
Light Green – 3.7 k, 23 controls
Red – 3.7 k, 28 controls
Orange - 2.5 k, 21 controls
Yellow - 1.6 k, 15 controls

Important: Bull Island is an EU designated Special Area of Conservation. Please do not cause damage or litter.  Thanks to Dublin City Council for granting permission to hold the event.

Many thanks to all orienteers who came for the Bull Island event today! 
It was mostly sunny, very windy and in the end we got a reall blizzard too!
Hope that everyone enjoyed it.

Speciall thanks to those who helped collect controlls (and got caught by bad weather)- guys you are great!

It came to our attention, that one of the points on the Blue course had wrong code on the control descriptions you got from us at the reqistration. Apologies for that.

We found two items - one is an envelope with a description and a second one is a pair of purple glasses in black case. Should you wish to have any of the items back, please email me on aiwmusial@gmail.com.

See you on the next event!

A super event indeed and too right about that change in the weather (sorry I couldn\'t help with the control collection Anna, but I was on strict orders to get back for the match). Great day out and lovely to see such a good turnout, justifying even more the effort on the part of all. Thanks again Ajax.

Yes, thank you very much to all in AJAX, we were also in our car feeling sorry for those collecting controls, well done, very unfortunate timing!
Thoroughly enjoyed the event, haven\'t run on Bull Island for a while and it was a pleasure to be back in the dunes.
Thank you

Thanks Colm - agree, splits are nice!

Thanks for a great event, enjoyed by all - the weather was so (unexpectedly) good early on that I had to swing by the start/finish mid-course to ditch all my layers - damn you sun!