Venue: GORTALUGHANY, Co. Fermanagh  NIOS Sheet 26 – Grid Ref H168300 54.21889,   -7.743736 Directions: From Enniskillen follow road signs for SLIGO (A4). After approx. 2 miles take a LEFT turn on to the (A32) towards Florencecourt and SWANLINBAR. Continue on the (A32) – past the turn to Florencecourt – then approx. a further 3 miles. Look for a turn to the RIGHT on to a minor road signposted GORTALUGHANY VIEWPOINT (‘O’ signs also). This road winds uphill. It has steep zigzag bends towards the end just before reaching the car parking. This will be at the small viewpoint car park Read More …

All the best to LVO members amongst the 3,594 entries at the Scottish Six Days, starting today at Auchingarrich. Each day shall have live streaming and tracking from one or more courses. Today it’s the M55L/W55L. Our own Stephen Gilmore is scheduled to start at 13:42 on M55L and has been selected to be tracked – so pit your wits against Stephen’s route choice. Links to day 1 streaming and tracking are here.

Would August’s event Planners and Organisers please note that LVO Map Printing Services will not be available from 1st to 18th August.

The NISeries Tables have been updated following the Slieve Croob round and have been sent for publication on the NIOA web site but you can get an early peek here at “Resources>LVO Public Folders>NI Series”. With 4 events to count and 3 events remaining you need to take care which class you enter in the autumn to ensure that you are in contention come the end-of-year.

The colour standards table has been updated following the event on Slieve Croob last Saturday. It can be found at “Resources/LVO Public Folders/Colour Standards”. There are 2 reasons for having a look. The first is to confirm whether or not you achieved a standard on Saturday – the standard time shown in the results is not necessarily correct as the criteria used to calculate it is not that used for NI colour standard achievement (e.g. M & W are not treated seperately). The second is for a more serious reason – the table lists all the current and lapsed members; Read More …

Andrew Elwood (M18), Meadow McCauley (W16) and Daniel Earnshaw (M16) set off today to join the Irish Junior Orienteering Team. They are representing Ireland at the European Youth Orienteering Championships in Belarus. You can follow the championships here…and here’s the full squad.

Good evening, just a final call for the BBQ…Wednesday 19th June is the last date by which you can book tickets for the Saturday evening barbecue at the Tollymore Orienteering Festival. The booking link is via here, don’t go hungry! You can enter the weekend’s events from the same link (entry on the day also available for events but not for the BBQ).

Don’t forget to get your entries in for the Tollymore Festival of Orienteering this weekend – the official start of summer! Three days of orienteering + camping + BBQ. The weekend incorporates a colour series event on Saturday at the beautiful location of Slieve Croob. Information and entries here.