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Fingal Orienteers is an Orienteering club based in North Dublin, with members also based in Co. Meath and Co. Louth. Membership is open to everyone. For further details of the club, see the Club Info page.

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Funding also from Dept. of Transport, Tourism and Sport

NEWS

The club AGM took place on Saturday 8th February. Thanks to the River Valley Comunity Center for hosting us. And thanks to Bernie and Nicola for the tea, coffee, sandwiches, crisps, and and other goodies. It was well attended by 13 members.

2025 AGM

<- Alan, Frank, Sean, Adria, Kathryn, Jean, Val, Bernie, Per, Nicola, Gabrielle, Tommy. Ian took the photo.

There was a good discussion on last year's activities, reports by different officers, and this year's events. The minutes and reports will be on Teamer.

Due to damage by storm Eowyn the league event planned for Castleblayney on March 9th is cancelled. We will have a league event in Cahore sand dunes instead on April 27th. This is the week before the Irish Championships, also on sand dunes, so it should provide good practice.

The maprun before the AGM only attracted 4 runners, perhaps due to the weather. The courses will be updated on the maprun page, so will be available for anyone to try.


Our club AGM is on Saturday 8th February in the River Valley Comunity Center at 2 PM. Please come and see what the club activities are going forward, and have an input. Tea, Coffee, sandwiches and biscuits will be provided. And don't worry, you won't be forced onto the committee or to take on any job.

We will meet at 12.00 before the AGM for a Maprun in River Valley. There will be 4 courses available. A short course which will stay in the park, and a medium course which will include some of River Valley and Glasmore park streets. There will be two long courses. One, which is very similar to last year, will include Brookdale and Ridgewood streets. The second goes up the west section of the valley and includes some of Swords Manor and Knocksedan streets.

Night O 25 start

Thanks to all who came to the Night event in the Sports Ireland Campus. Thanks to Kathryn and Sean for planning and organising, and to the other helpers. It was a clear night in the aftermath of storm Éowyn.

Results are here.

Some more photos are here


Happy New Year to all Fingal Members and friends

Here's to looking forward to an enjoyable and succesful 2025 year of orienteering

Abbotstown House

The first Fingal event of 2025 will be a night event in the Sports Ireland Campus in Abbotstown on Saturday evening, January 25th. The event will start about 6PM. There will be 2 courses, a Long and a Short. Entry will be on orienteering.ie here

The rest of the main Fingal events for 2025 will be as follows.

We will return to Castleblayney on March 9th for a Leinster League event. Per is planner.

The scatter league will return in the Autumn. The events will be a bit more spread out this year rather than on consecutive Sundays. The dates are August 31st, September 14th, September 28th, and October 5th. Venues are still to be confirmed but will include the popular parks of north Dublin.

The 2nd Leinster League event will be on a new map of Balinagee forest and open mountain on November 9th. Val and Tommy are completing the map. Balinagee is on the north side of the R756 west of the Wicklow gap. It is on the other side of the road from the Setanta areas at Oakwood and Fair Mountain.

We will most likely also have one or two summer evening events in June or July, and a Christmas event on December 14th. We also hope to have some training events and MapRun meetups.

Other events to look forward to are the Leinster Champs in Claravale on February 23rd, the Irish Championships in Derry on the first weekend in May, the Munster Championships near Mitchelstown, October 19th, and the Northern Ireland Championships on November 1st