5 July 2010   The JWOC team members Niall Ewen, Sean Knight, and Conor Short have spent the last few days getting used to the competition terrain - very thickly forested complex sandunes for the Long & Middle races, and hillier more open forest for the Relays. Conor, Sean and Niall will be reporting on their training and races over the JWOC week on Irish JWOC 2010 page. Full results, split times, graphic results will be on the Official JWOC website  2 July 2010EYOC 2010 Niamh Corbett was 4th in to-days Long race at EYOC - a fantastic result and a terrific performance by Niamh. Full results and maps are up at http://www.eyoc2010.com/longdistance.html. Irish Results in brief on the Results page. The first part of the W16 course is shown here. 9 May 2010 EYOC Team Selected The Irish team selected for EYOC 2010 in Soria, Spain is: M18: Cillin Corbett, Colm Moran, Josh O'S-Hourihan W16: Niamh Corbett, Cliona McCullough M16: Jack Millar, Laurence Quinn, Alex Simonin, Mark Stephens The EYOC website is at http://www.eyoc2010.com/news.html 5 May 2010 JWOC Team Selected The Irish team at JWOC 2010 in Denmark will be: Niall Ewen, Sean Knight, Conor Short. The JWOC website is at http://www.jwoc2010.dk/ 30 April 2010 Results added: Irish Schools Championships, Glengarra, 15 April Junior Results at IOC, Coleraine & Magilligan, 24 & 25 April 27 April 2010
IRISH JUNIOR SQUAD FUNDRAISING QUIZ raises €750
Thanks to everyone who came along and supported the 4th annual junior table quiz. We raised €750. Thanks also to those who couldn't stay around for the quiz but who donated to the squad. Congrats to everyone!
 13 April 2010
The Irish Schools Orienteering Championships are taking place this Thursday 15 April in Glengarra Wood, Co. Tipperary.
Full details are at http://www.irishschoolso.blogspot.com/
12 April 2010
IRISH JUNIOR SQUAD FUNDRAISING QUIZ
... to be held on the evening of Saturday, 24th April after the AGM of the Irish Orienteering Association in Limavady.
Compass Point have provided vouchers worth £100 for the winning team (tables of 4).
See you there! 12 April 2010
Congratulations to the squad on their recent performances at the JK in Devon.  Irish Junior Results are on the JK 2010 Results page.
John McCullough has written a report for the TIO blog which can be viewed here: http://theirishorienteer.blogspot.com/2010/04/april-activity.html
For full results/Routegadget/split times, see the official JK site: www.jk2010.co.uk/results/ 30 March 2010
Complete results of the last Time Trial are on the Time Trial page here
16 March 2010
Final details of the time trial & training weekend are here.
Also map of the trial route, & previous times.
1 March 2010
Sand dunes again
IOC 2010 - Sand dunes in Magilligan, Northern Ireland
JK 2010 - Sand dunes at Broughton, North Devon
JWOC 2010 - Sand dunes in Northwest Denmark
Next Sunday 7 March - event on Sand dunes on Bull Island, North Dublin
20 Feb 2010
Time Trials & Training
The next Squad training weekend & the Spring Time Trials will be in Dublin/Wicklow on 20 - 21 March.
The accommodation has to be booked & paid for in advance so email juniorrep@orienteering.ie soon if you want to attend.
Juniors (M/W 14 to 20) who would like to join the Squad training should be able to use compass and interpret contours - email juniorrep@orienteering.ie if you are interested or have any queries.
Sat 20 Feb - morning - Time Trial in Phoenix Park. Map of the Trial route here.
Sat 20 Feb - afternoon - training
Sat 20 Feb - evening - Knockree hostel
Sun 21 Feb - morning - event on Trooperstown
 20 Feb 2010 Portugal O Meeting
Eleven members of the Junior Squad (accompanied by 5 adults) were at the POM last week. There were a few glitches: the Start draw was very uneven, and despite tales of shorts-and-t-shirt weather last year the weather was rather Irish, bitterly cold at first, then cold & wet. But to balance these drawbacks the Portuguese were friendly and relaxed, prices were cheap, & the orienteering was terrific (though the W15s might have liked a little more challenge) - 4 days of orienteering mostly in fast open pine forest with some very complex contour areas, with the bonus of the night Sprint, a manic dash among the alleys of a seaside village.
The competition specially in the older in the Junior classes was fierce, best result was Niamh Corbett 4th in W15 with Cliona McCullough just behind in 7th. Best of the boys was Laurence Quinn 11th in M17 just ahead of Jack Millar & Cillin Corbett.
8 Jan 2010
 Two IJS trips are in the planning stage:
Portugal O Meeting - Sat 13 to Tue 16 Feb.
The IJS Spring Tour will go to the Portugal O Meeting (POM).
Preliminary plan is travel out on Fri 12, hopefully in time for some training! and return on Wed 17.
The JK in Devon, Fri 2 to Mon 5 April.
As usual the JK is a squad trip.
Email juniorrep@orienteering if you are interested in joining either of these trips.
14 December 2009
The preliminary squad Calendar for 2010 is on the Calendar page. The date & destination for the Spring Tour have still to be decided.
10 December 2009
A summary of the presentations & discussions from the training weekend in Fermanagh on 28 Nov is on the event page here
8 December
The calculations are complete! The final results of the Junior Cup are on the Junior Cup page.
Prizes will be awarded at the next squad get-together.
19 November 2009
Sand Dunes
2009-2010 is turning out to be the year of the sand dunes.
 It started with the JHI in Newborough. The Connachts are on the high dunes of Finner in Donegal, and 2 days of the JK are on sand dunes in Devon. All good practise for the Irish Champs on Magilligan dunes north of Derry, leading up to the subtle forested dunes of JWOC on the West coast of Denmark. Sand dune experts should have a good season.
Entries for the Connacht Champs close this weekend see http://www.wego.orienteering.ie
This is the last event in the Junior Cup competition.
Results so far are on the Junior Cup page. Some classes are pretty much settled, but there could be big changes in M14, M16 & M18, specially if those who have only run in 3 events are at Finner. 10 November 2009
Training for M/W 16 and older potential EYOC and JWOC squads - Sat 28 November, the day before the Connacht Champs. Some light training on the Burren but the emphasis will be on preparation for the big international races.
9 November 2009
The Connacht Champs are the last major event of 2009, and the last of the Junior Cup series.
Entries are open til Fri 20 November.
Current standings in the Junior Cup, including Munster Champs results, will be up here very soon...
15 October 2009
The Junior Cup. There are only 2 events left in the Junior Cup league, Munster and Connacht Champs. The closing date for The Munster Champs is Saturday 17 Oct.
The best 4 out of the 7 events count for the league, the events are Leinster, Northern Ireland, Munster, Connacht Champs, IOC Long & Middle, and Shamrock day 2. Details at 'The Junior Cup' on the Events page.
Training weekend 10-11 October - John McCullough has a brief report here
11 September 2009
The next Training weekend will be in Dublin/Wicklow on 10-11 October, including Time trials in Phoenix Park.
Accommodation on Saturday night in Knockree hostel near Bray.
11 September 2009
 JHI 2009 was run on highly technical forested sand dunes at Newborough on Anglesey, Wales.
Two Irish juniors made podium places in the Individual - W14 Niamh Corbett & W16 Aine McCann.
See the TIO blog for a report by John McCullough who was helping out at the weekend.
Irish results are at the JHI 2009 page
15 August 2009: Training Diaries
IJS Training Group has been set up on Attackpoint (thanks to Sean K), the link is http://www.attackpoint.org/group.jsp/group_147
13 August 2009: Sprint O for Juniors, Tara
Sprint O at Tara, Co. Meath, with prizes for Juniors, details here
8 August 2009: Scottish 6-day results
 Scottish 6-day: 11 July 2009: Relay competition JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Sprint finish puts boys in 19th position, 2 seconds behind Britian's first team and 1 second ahead of Italy 10 July 2009: Relay competition on Saturday 11th JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: See JWOC page for more information. Nick's account of the middle distance final also added. 10 July 2009: Online videos JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Interviews with the course planners, some coaches and the JWOC champions can be viewed on this website. 10 July 2009: Nick 44th in A final JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: A fantastic 44th place finish for Nick in the middle distance A final, results and maps here. (Map extract below is the last loop of the men's A final). Also added is Nick's account of the middle distance final and Ruairi's account of the middle distance qualification.  JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Middle distance qualification was run this morning. Nick had another great performance, more news here. 08 July 2009: JWOC middle distance qualification JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Middle distance qualification start times are published, see here. 08 July 2009: JWOC long distance - Niall's race report JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Niall reports on the long distance from Italy: JWOC page. 07 July 2009: JWOC long distance - Fantastic top 50 result for Nick
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Long distance final results and maps added to the JWOC page. The next race will be the middle distance qualification race on Thursday, 9th July. You can follow the races on live results on the organisers homepage, www.jwoc2009.it and also via a live blog on WorldOfO, www.worldofo.com 06 July 2009: JWOC sprint
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Kevin O'Boyle leads the Irish challenge in the sprint race on day one of the championships. Results, maps and a report from Kevin here. 06 July 2009: JWOC starts today
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Follow the fortunes of the Irish team at JWOC at this page - athlete profiles, exclusive interviews, results, photos, etc. will be posted here during the Junior World Champs in Italy. Photos from opening ceremony added. 06 July 2009: Your turn! Route choice from M18 sprint at EYOC: How would you tackle leg 7 to 8 in the sprint?  05 July 2009 EYOC Sprint results posted: results here 04 July 2009: CONGRATULATIONS to M16 and M18 RELAY TEAMS at EYOC EYOC relay results posted: fantastic results for the two junior relay teams at EYOC, see here 03 July 2009: EYOC page created EUROPEAN YOUTH CHAMPS, Serbia: Follow the M16's and M18's competing at EYOC at this page. 27 June 2009
EUROPEAN YOUTH CHAMPS, Serbia
The EYOC races will be at altitudes of 1500 to 2000m, and the 7 members of the Irish team, with Team Leader Greg McCann, are now in Serbia acclimatising and preparing for the competition. They will train on maps near the competition centre at Kopaonik, until Thursday. The competition begins of Friday 3 July with the Long Distance, followed by the Relay on Saturday and Sprint on Sunday. The EYOC website is at http://www.eyoc2009.org/
The Irish team:
M18 Sean Knight, Padraig Mulry, Conor Short
M16 Cillin Corbett, Eoin McCullough, Jack Millar, Laurence Quin  23rd June 2009
 PRE-JWOC AND EYOC TRAINING Members of the JWOC and EYOC teams are currently preparing for these important competitions at high altitude in Italy. The competitions are the pinnicle of the junior calender. The team profiles will be posted here in the coming weeks as a build up to the competitions. Links, with all the competition details, can be found here.
20th June 2009 Juniors at Jukola The junior squad was well represented at the annual Jukola relay, at which over 15,000 orienteers and 2,000 teams congregated at Mikkeli in Finland. Niall Ewen (2nd leg), Conor Short (4th leg) and Colm Moran (6th leg) were running for the all-Irish team that finished a respectable 321st position. Ruairi Short ran the last leg for Tullinge SK's second team, who finished 190th, while Nick Simonin ran the 'long night' leg for OK Tisaren's second team who finished 116th. Click on the positions for detailled results. Norway's Kristansand OK took first place in a close finish involving Daniel Hubmann, Thierry Guergiou (Kalevan Rasti, Finland, 2nd) and Emil Wingsted (Halden SK, Norway, 3rd). All in all, a fantastic experience 6th May 2009 Thank you to everyone who supported the junior fundraising quiz at the weekend. Between the quiz and the raffle, we raised €909 to help fund the junior squad's extensive competition and training calander. Thanks again!
6th May 2009
Irish Championships: Well done to the newly crowned Irish junior champions. Full results are available on the orienteering.ie website. Juniors who did the double and won both the middle and classic distance championships were:Niamh Corbett (W14), Andrea Stefkova (W16), Fiona Hill (W18), Kevin O'Boyle (M18) and Katarina Stefkova (W20). The smallest winning margin was in the M16 class in the classic where only 23 seconds separated Jack Millar from Cillin Corbett. Well done to everyone who competed
 5th May 2009
Maths and orienteering! Leaving Cert. student and Irish junior squad member Alan Lane was part of the winning Midleton CBS team at the national Team Math final in UCC. Alan competed at EYOC, JEC and JHI in 2008 as an M18. The team was coached by well-known orienteer Liam O'Brien. You can read an article about the win from the Irish Times here. 28th April 2009 Compass Point to sponsor junior table quiz
The kind people in Compass Point have donated vouchers worth £120stg to the junior squad. This will be the first prize in the quiz. Compass Point is the UK's largest online orienteering & outdoor equipment shop and have a website where you can shop till you drop at www.compasspoint-online.co.uk. Thanks also to the Great Outdoors in Dublin for providing many of the spot prizes for the raffle.
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