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FacebookSetanta Orienteers is an active open orienteering club, affiliated to the Irish Orienteering Association. The Club has members located throughout the Dublin Region, County Wicklow, Leinster and further afield. We also have Permanent Orienteering Course's at Hellfire Wood and Massy's Estate.

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Irish Orienteering Championships 2012
Submitted by dave weston - 11 May 2012

Inch - IOC 2004(Photo from IOC 2004 - the last time they were held in Inch. No photos for this year available yet!)
IOC 2012 was not without its controversy, but that was mainly before the event ever took place. Very high costs for entry were initially sought by the organising club BOC and aroused a good few comments – most not very supportive. The IOC Executive stepped in and entry fees were somewhat reduced, seemingly upon negotiation. Entry dates were also pushed back to allow people avail of the ‘cheaper’ rates. Some ill will was caused by all this and a very small entry to the Irish Champs, probably the smallest ever, was the upshot of it all.

In the end, only four Setanta competitors took part and no relay team was entered at all. Probably the first, but, hopefully, last time that this will occur. They were Hazel Thompson (W35L), myself and Philip Brennan (both M45L), and Brian Power (M60S). The following is just my impressions of the middle and classic events.

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Rogaine Ireland 2012 - Entries Open
Submitted by admin - 1 May 2012

Ragaine WinnersEntries are now open for the 2012 Setanta Rogaine Ireland. As always the main event is the 24 Hour race but again we have both a 6 Hour Team and a 6 Hour Individual race. Entries are therefore in one of the 3 following categories:

6 Hour Individual
6 Hour Team
24 Hour Team

The Rogaine will take place on the weekend of June 23/24th 2012.

This year we have different starting times for the 24 hour and the 6 hour events to allow everyone finish at the same time.

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Spring Cup League - Mullaghmeen 29th of April 2012
Submitted by Paul Keville - 24 Apr 2012

mullaghmeenSetanta Orienteers invite you to take part in the last event of the Leinster Spring Cup League event at Mullaghmeen Woods this Sunday the 29th of April 2012. The event will be signposted from Castlepollard Co. Westmeath. Please follow the one way traffic system in the village and turn into Water Street, look out for signs for Mullaghmeen Country (grid reference n 481 775). Registration and starts will be in the car park of the forest.  

Mullaghmeen is situated on the Meath-Westmeath border north of Castlepollard.

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Jk 2012 Scotland report
Submitted by Angus - 17 Apr 2012

Zoe at JK RelayDuring 6th to 9th April 2012 in Scotland, more than 2400 competitors made their way to the annual JK Orienteering Festival, firstly to Livingston, west of Edinburgh for Sprint and then 2 hours north along the Tay River for the other 3 days, 2 individual days and Relay on final day. Setanta Orienteers were represented by 2 members, Zoe & Angus Tyner.

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IOA Planning Workshop April
Submitted by terrylawless - 15 Apr 2012

Angus Tyner and myself attend a planning workshop in the Airport Hilton Hotel recently. The workshop/lecture was headed up by Graham Nilsen of MEROC, a man who last year planned day2? of the JK he also wrote the handbook/Bible for planners 15 years ago, currently out of print and needing updating (according to himself).  

The morning consisted of a lecture where Graham outlined the basic technical requirements or more percisely the technically difficulties for each of the colour coureses. If you have ever planned a course before these standards will come flooding back to you.

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Setanta members at the JK2012
Submitted by admin - 10 Apr 2012

ZoeWell done to Angus and Zoe Tyner who put un some very strong performances at the JK in Scotland over the weekend.

Angus finished 12th overall and Zoe finished 10th in one of the most competitive competition in the British Isles. Hopefully Angus will put a report of the JK festival on the website. Full results can be found at http://www.siresults.co.uk/2012/JK/

Well done again Angus and Zoe.
 

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The Irish Orienteer

May 2012/2 - 12 May 2012
Irish Championships Mt. Brandon from the RelaysExcellent areas, excellent maps, worthy Champions - these could summarise Bishopstown OC's Irish Championships last weekend in Kerry's sand dunes.Marcus Pinker retained his Men's title in the Classic race at Inch, while late entry Maeve O'Grady's (DFO) years of training and competition paid off when she took the W21 Elite title. See the classic race results here. In the middle distance event the day before at Castlegregory, Darren Burke took the trophy (his first Senior title), relegating Marcus to second, while Ros Hussey had a comfortable win in W21E. Full results here.In an exciting finish to the Relays, Cork O's Marcus Pinker gained minutes on third leg leader Colm Hill (CNOC) to win the Men's race while late entries CNOC comfortably took the Women's race with junior Caoimhe O'Boyle joining veterans Eileen Loughman and Ruth Lynam on the rostrum. Relay results will be...
May 2012/1 - 01 May 2012
Irish Champs Preview This weekend's Irish Championships in Kerry will bring togather some of the best orienteers and the best terrain in Ireland, with a feast of sand dune orienteering on three contrasting areas on the Dingle Peninsula. Castlegregory and Inch have been used for orienteering before, but the Maharees is a new map. Castlegregory and Inch have been resurveyed for IOC, a move necessitated by the natural movement of the dunes and aided by the arrival of LIDAR technology for Inch (read more about LIDAR here).Saturday's middle distance race at Castlegregory will have courses from 1.2 to 6.4 km before moving to the classic distance at Inch with an M21 Elite course of 10.6 km with 500 m climb (reduced from 13.1 km with an incredible 750 m). The Women's Elite course is almost as long, at 9.3 km with 450 m. ...
April 2012/2 - 17 Apr 2012
GEN, FIN, NWOC and LVO take Trophies at JK Fingal's Jean O'Neill took joint first place with multiple champion Carol McNeill in the W65 Sprint race at the JK on Good Friday, while the Great Eastern Navigators team of Laurence Quinn, Jonathan Quinn and Aoife McCavana (not Eadaoin as I had said - her time will come!) snatched the prize in the Mixed Ad Hoc class, the biggest class in the Jan Kjellstrom Relay race at Newtyle Hill near Dunkeld in Scotland on Easter Monday, following in the footsteps of the Irish Junior Squad team who won in 2008. Meanwhile, in the more cerebral Trail Orienteering competition, Declan McGrellis (LVO) followed up his runs in the conventional orienteering with a clear win over the two days of the JK Trail-O event.2400 orienteers from around the world, though mainly from Britain, came together in Scotland for four days of varied orienteering. Starting on Good Friday with an urban sprint race (winning times of sub-15 minutes) at Livingston, near Edinburgh, the competition moved to more conventional areas for Saturday (Dunalastair, near Loch Tummel), Sunday (Craig a Barns, across the road from Birnam Wood near...
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