Happy New Year to all Fingal Members and friends

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

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