Author: Dave Weston

This Saturday 22/02/2020 Setanta Orienteers are holding a night orienteering event at Massy’s woods. The event will be signposted from Stocking Lane.

Start times are between 6:15pm-7:30pm.

This is an over 16s event. Anyone under that age wishing to take part must do so accompanied by an adult at all times.

There will be two courses on offer

Long – 3.3km 140 metres 14 controls

Short – 2.2km 90 metres 11 controls.

Cost of entry

Seniors – €7

Students/OAP’s – €5

Parking will be in hellfire woods car park. Follow the tape towards the start and be careful crossing the …

Setanta Orienteers will be running a local come-and-try-it event at Djouce Woods this coming Sunday 16th February. All welcome. Start times are between 11am and 1pm with courses closing at 2:30pm. The event will be in the main forest car park and will be signposted on the R755 leaving Kilmcanogue.

There will be four courses on offer as follows
Long 6.3km 270m climb
Medium 4.4km 200m climb
Short (tech) 2.0km 80m climb
Short (easy) 2.0km 50m climb

The map will be on waterproof A4 paper. The map scale is 1:10,000 with 5m contour intervals. There are numerous mountainbike tracks and …

To all club members
Time to renew your membership for the 2020 season. You can get your 50% discounts on ordering our specially design club orienteering gear, a large discount on purchasing a SportIdent timing card, free IOC relay entries, free entry for club only events such as the club champs and the wine and chocolates orienteering before Christmas, and much more. Just go to http://setantaorienteers.org/membership/  in the ‘about us’ section of the club website to renew.
New members are also most welcome.…

We are rescheduling the wine and choc O event to Sunday 5th January. The start will be at the middle car park of Djouce Woods at 2:30pm. Prizes of chocolates and bottles of wine at each control. Bring the whole family as it’s always a great occasion. Refreshment and finger food is organised in a local hostelry afterwards and we hope to see all club members there too.
The kings brought the gifts on the twelfth day of Christmas, so we’re only one day out!…