A good day out at Tiglin & Devil’s Glen

We had an enjoyable day’s orienteering on the Tiglin/Devil’s Glen map on 7th April, with more than 40 complete beginners [&hellip

Join us on 7th April for basic orienteering training at the Devil’s Glen/Tiglin event

Club Activities

After a busy few weeks in December and January, with out Christmas Score event in Tibradden, and night events in [&hellip

Autumn activity

A brief note on what’s happening between now and the end of 2023. We are running a Leinster League event [&hellip

August Orienteering

Join us in the Phoenix Park for three Tuesday evening events on the 8th, 15th and 22nd of August. The [&hellip

World Orienteering Day event – St Catherine’s Park, Lucan, 21st May

We’re giving everyone an opportunity to try orienteering on World O-Day, 21st May, at St Catherine’s Park, Lucan. Start times [&hellip

3ROC at the Irish Championships

Four great days orienteering provided by Curragh Naas O-Club last weekend saw several great wins and podium places for 3ROC. [&hellip

Spring Orienteering

There are plenty of opportunities for orienteering in the Dublin & Wicklow areas this spring, with even more events if [&hellip

New Year 2023

Happy New Year, everyone! The night orienteering season has started, with the first event a recent addition to the fixtures [&hellip

Christmas Orienteering on St Stephen’s Day

Our next event is the Christmas Score Event, back to the forest this year, on St Stephen’s Day, 26th December. [&hellip

Winter 2022 News

The Leinster League events are back, with the final league of 2022 at The Curragh this Sunday (4th December). Pre-entry [&hellip

Leinster Championships 2022 – looking back!

Congratulations to the winners at the Leinster Championships yesterday, but also to anyone who went out on very challenging courses [&hellip

Final Information for the Leinster Championships

Leinster Championships 2022 – Carlingford Mountain, 23rd October 2022. Final Information for Competitors Key Points: Be prepared for bad weather [&hellip

Leinster Championships – 23rd October 2022

It’s nine years since we’ve been orienteering on Slieve Foye, overlooking Carlingford, Co. Louth, but you’ll all have your chance to [&hellip

August O-News

Summer Summary There was a lot of orienteering activity over the summer, with major international events including  the first Sprint-only [&hellip

Summer Orienteering

Congratulations to the 3ROC prizewinners at the Irish Championships in Kerry at the beginning of May, particularly to Colm Moran [&hellip

April & May Orienteering

Good luck to the 3ROC members and others heading to Wales for the JK Orienteering Festival at Easter. “The JK” [&hellip

Spring Orienteering News

Griffeen “Come & Try It” for Ukraine Our next event is the “Come and Try It” at Griffeen Park, Lucan [&hellip

January Orienteering

  Happy New Year everyone! We are running two night events in January, in the Phoenix Park and at St [&hellip

November News

We have been very lucky to have had some great opportunities for orienteering in the past few weeks: at last [&hellip

Septober News

With the Leinster, Northern Ireland and Munster Championships just around the corner, we’re starting to catch up with the bigger [&hellip

Autumn Orienteering

Phoenix Park #3 Well, we have now had two of our three Tuesday evening events in the Phoenix Park, with [&hellip

Summer 2021 at last!

Welcome back, everyone! After almost a year with no orienteering we are getting back to normal for the summer. There are [&hellip

Not all Doom & Gloom …

None of this was part of our 2020 vision, but even though all organised orienteering has been postponed or cancelled, [&hellip

3ROC News 24th September 2020

Living with Uncertainty Sadly, our League event at Carrick Mountain last Sunday was a casualty of the restrictions caused by [&hellip

3ROC News 9 September 2020

Carrick Mountain event on 20th September postponed. Unfortunately, due to increased travel restrictions on Co. Dublin due to Covid-19, we [&hellip

3ROC News August 2020

What a year, eh? At least we’re starting to get orienteering again, both in forests and parks, with clubs running [&hellip

Getting there … June 2020

Return to O: After the shutdown of organised orienteering since March (we’ve had an event at Griffeen Park mothballed from [&hellip

What to do now?

What can I do? Since essentially all organised orienteering has stopped due to the Covid-19 epidemic, what are you supposed to [&hellip

Covid-19 causes all orienteering to stop

The current Covid-19 virus pandemic has prompted the Irish Orienteering Association to close down all orienteering activities, initially until 29th [&hellip

Orienteering News 11th March 2020

Following the recommendation of the IOA and as a result of the current coronavirus situation, we have decided to postpone [&hellip

Orienteering News 3rd March 2020

Catch-up time Some of the events which were cancelled recently because of the weather are rescheduled for this weekend: on [&hellip

Orienteering News 26th February 2020

  Update: Check the IOA Forum here or Facebook page here for weather updates in case of cancellations. A decision [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 19th February 2020

Weather Strikes Again: After storms Ciara and Dennis, will we have a full programme of orienteering this weekend? Luckily the Setanta [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 12th February 2020

Weekend washout – For probably the first time ever, all the orienteering we were expecting last weekend, north, south, east [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 6th February 2020

More night-O The night-O season is still with us, and this Saturday’s event is on the Curragh, Co. Kildare. You’ll [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 28th January 2020

Weekend roundup: Cork O’s Josh O’Sullivan-Hourihan ran away with the Long course at our night event last Saturday at St [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 22nd January 2020

Thanks to GEN for running a fantastically successful training weekend in Glendalough last weekend, it’s business as usual this weekend [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 16th January 2020

This weekend – a slight pause in the normal orienteering calendar this weekend as there is a two day training [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News – 8th January 2020

Our first event of 2020 was the Night-O in the Phoenix Park last Saturday: thanks to the planner, Aidan McCullough, organiser [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News – 1st January 2020

Happy New Year everyone! We’re gearing up for two “Dublin by Night” events this month to start off the new [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News December 2019

Gearing up for Christmas – are you following the annual “Route to Christmas” on World ofO? You’ll have a new [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 28th November 2019

A chance to take a break from orienteering this weekend, with no local events on. Get ready, though, for the [&hellip

3ROC News 20th November 2019

This Sunday’s orienteering brings us back to Fauna Wood near Donard in Co.Wicklow, where Fingal have revived the old map, last [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 13 November 2019

What a treat to run in the Ajax event at Cronybyrne in the Vale of Clara last Sunday – it’s the [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 7th November 2019

Orienteering this Sunday (October 10th) is the Ajax event at the Vale of Clara, otherwise known as Cronybyrne, between Laragh and Rathdrum [&hellip

Orienteering News 31st October 2019

Dublin Sprint Weekend – an exciting weekend’s sprint orienteering this weekend, on four different areas in the capitol. UCDO are [&hellip

Orienteering News 24 October 2019

Late entries for Sunday’s Connacht Championships at Union Wood, Sligo, closed at midnight last night (Wednesday 23rd October) so you’re unlikely [&hellip

Orienteering News 17 October 2019

This weekend Emo Court, Co. Laois, is the venue for Sunday’s Leinster League event, with the usual range of eight [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News October 2019

This weekend The Northern Ireland Championships are at Cassy Water, near Rostrevor, Co.  Down on Saturday, with limited entry on [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 26 September 2019

Orienteering continues this weekend with events at Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, where Waterford Orienteers urban series continues on a new map [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News, September 2019

Welcome back, everyone, after your summer break! There’s been plenty of activity in the orienteering world, with 3ROC runners at [&hellip

Summer Orienteering 2019

Summer Orienteering: Tuesday evening events are running over the summer with a few Sundays as well – you’ll find details [&hellip

World Orienteering Week news – 15 May 2019

It’s World Orienteering Week this week and there are more than 1000 events in about 80 countries taking place to [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 9th May 2019

Irish Championships Well done to all the 3ROC members who ran at the Irish Championships last weekend – four great days [&hellip

3ROC News 2nd May 2018

Just a quick update this week … Good luck to everyone running at the Irish Championships in Fermanagh, Cavan and [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 24th April 2019

Orienteering this Sunday (April 28th) is at Oakwood, west of the Wicklow Gap, where Setanta are running a Leinster League [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News Easter 2019

Thanks to all the helpers at last Sunday’s Leinster League event at the Pine Forest. Colm Moran’s courses went down [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 10th April 2019

Well done to all our Leinster Champions and runners-up at Stranahely last Sunday! CNOC put on a great event on a [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 4th April 2019

AGM Reminder: A final reminder that the 44th 3ROC Annual General Meeting is on Friday 5th April at the Dropping [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 25th March 2019

Rossmore report Fingal’s Leinster League event at Rossmore forest park in Monaghan on Sunday attracted a good field, with an [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 21st March 2019

Some big events coming up soon – Leinster Champs entries close on Sunday 24th; JK entries (Easter in England) close [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 13th March 2019

Weekend report Yet another great run around the Bull Island last Sunday: the Ajax weather gods smiled on most of [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 6th March 2019

Two events in Leinster this weekend: an urban/park event at Kilbogget Park, Ballybrack on Saturday 9th and a League event at [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 28th February 2019

A grand day out at Ballyward last Sunday saw Colm Moran take 1st and Valdas Tilunas take 2nd on the [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 21 February 2019

Dublin by Night finished; Clonmel Urban race finished, what’s next? We’re back to the Leinster League again, with the Setanta [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 14 February 2019

This weekend sees the last Dublin by Night event at St Anne’s Park, Raheny, on Saturday, and the launch of [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 7th February 2019

Just a quick note to remind you of a few things coming up: This Saturday (9th February) the penultimate Dublin [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering news 31st January 2019

It was a dark and stormy night on the ship. The Captain said to the Mate “Tell me a story”, [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 23 January 2019

This weekend: Two Leinster events this weekend – Night orienteering at Crone Wood in Glencree on Saturday and a non-League [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 16th January 2019

Dublin by Night starts: Night orienteering isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, although the very good headlights available at reasonable cost [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 9th January 2019

Night-O starts this week: The first of the 2019 Dublin by Night events is in the Phoenix Park on Saturday [&hellip

Happy New Year from 3ROC!

Happy New Year everyone! Another O-year starts, with people changing age class (your age class is determined by your age [&hellip

3ROC Christmas 2018

Happy Christmas to everyone! We hope to see you all at our annual Christmas Score Event at Ticknock, on the [&hellip

3ROC News 12th December 2018

Leinster League: Top ten positions for 3ROC at the final League event of 2018 last Sunday, with Clodagh Moran (8th [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 5th December 2018

Does it seem like a whole year ago since we organised the Irish Sprint Championships at DCU? Remember the start in [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 29 November 2018

Well, another weekend with no local Leinster orienteering as the CNOC event on the Curragh has been put back a [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 22 November 2018

Last Sunday: Well done to Valdas Tilunas who had a clear win on the Brown course at Sunday’s Leinster League [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 15th November 2018

This weekend: This weekend’s orienteering is at Deer Park forest, Virginia, Co. Cavan, where Fingal are staging a Leinster League [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 8th November 2018

Weekend News: Testing courses at last Sunday’s Ajax Leinster League event at Carraig na Seabhac saw some good 3ROC runs, [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 31st October 2018

A great day last Sunday for the Connacht Championships, with sunshine, a very photogenic forest, interesting terrain and several 3ROC [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 24th October 2018

Championship Season We find ourselves in the middle of a series of Championships events this month, despite the fact that [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 17th October 2018

Last weekend: What a great turnout at our Come and Try It in the Phoenix Park on Sunday: more than [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 9th October 2018

Last weekend: A busy weekend last weekend and another one ahead in a few days! Well done to the Irish [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 3rd October 2018

Three Rock Wood league event – Sunday 7th October: How nice it would be to be able to run on [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 26th September 2018

Clarabeg last Sunday We hope you all enjoyed your runs at sunny Clarabeg last Sunday for Leinster League 8. Despite [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 16th September 2018

Ready for Leinster League 8 at Clarabeg on Sunday? While you’ve all been off enjoying yourselves over the summer, we’ve [&hellip

August Orienteering in Dublin

Two down, one to go! The Griffeen Park and Cabinteely Park events are over: thanks to the planners and organisers [&hellip

Summer Orienteering 2018

Summer O-plans There’s plenty of orienteering on over the summer, even a Leinster League event in August. You may not [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 19th May 2018

A slight hiccup in this week’s news update as we had no internet coverage for a few days, so here [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 9th May 2018

No cloud, no cuckoos but plenty of land – IOC 2018 Well done to the 3ROC prizewinners and Irish Champions [&hellip

Orienteering News 3rd May 2018

Irish Championships – the pinnacle of our orienteering year! Everyone ready to head north-west for the Irish Championships this weekend? The [&hellip

Orienteering News 26th April 2018

Well done to Eoin Riordan (St Gerard’s), winner of the Post-Junior-Cert category at the Irish Schools’ Championships at Emo Court, Co. [&hellip

Orienteering News 19th April 2018

Last weekend Epic courses and epic weather in Carrick last Sunday for the 5th Leinster League event, where the weather, [&hellip

Orienteering News 11th April 2018

Leinster League, Carrick Mountain, Sunday 15th April: All set for our next event, planned by Valdas Tilunas, organised by Úna [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 5th April 2018

JK 2018 All back safely from the mud-fest which was the JK in Cannock Chase over Easter, we’re lining up [&hellip

Easter Orienteering News 2018

Good luck to the 3ROC contingent running in the JK in Stafford over Easter: Aidan, Clodagh, Colm, Cuan, Eoin, Frank, John [&hellip

Orienteering News 22nd March 2018

Well done to the 3ROC runners at the Leinster Schools’ Orienteering Championships at Djouce Woods this week: Eoin Riordan (St [&hellip

Orienteering news 13th March 2018

There was a good turnout for last Saturday’s Junior Squad time trial in the Phoenix Park, although underfoot conditions were [&hellip

Orienteering News 7th March 2018

Well, it’s worth repeating how lucky we were with the snow, that we didn’t have any orienteering planned in Leinster [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 1st March 2018

Leinster Championships Well, we certainly had a lucky escape with the Leinster Championships last Sunday! Snow everywhere and blizzard conditions [&hellip

3ROC News 22nd February 2018

Just a couple of days to go to the Leinster Championships, all waiting for the start times to be published [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 14th February 2018

This weekend You may have heard the news that the Lisburn City Race planned for next Sunday, February 18th, has [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 8th February 2018

Things are starting to hot up in the orienteering world after a bit of a break at the start of [&hellip

Orienteering News 1st February 2018

Leinster Championships We hope you remembered to enter the Leinster Championships on 25th February in time! Entries don’t close until [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 24 January 2018

Last weekend Contrasting conditions for orienteering last weekend, with heavy rain here and snow and ice in Edinburgh. Times at [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 15 January 2018

Dublin by Night 1: Phoenix Park  “A keeper”, “A stroke of genius”, “Super event”, “Fantastic idea by 3ROC” – these were [&hellip

Orienteering News 9th January 2018

The final league event of 2017, Trooperstown on New Year’s Day, was also a great start to the new year, [&hellip

New Year 2018

Happy New Year to all our members and to everyone reading this! We had a good turnout for the St [&hellip

Christmas Orienteering News

Happy Christmas, everyone! We hope you enjoy the festival and can come orienteering on Three Rock on St Stephen’s Day. This event has [&hellip

Orienteering News 7th December 2017

The feedback from the Sprint Champs we ran last Saturday was overwhelmingly positive, so well done Aidan on the courses! [&hellip

3ROC Sprint Championships Review 4th December 2017

Well, we hope you all enjoyed the Sprint Championships at DCU on Saturday. The results and runners’ routes are available [&hellip

Orienteering News 29th November 2017

All set for the Irish Sprint Champs on Saturday – entries have crept up to just under 150, which is [&hellip

Orienteering News 23 November 2017

Only three days left to enter the 2017 Irish Sprint Championships on December 2nd! Will we make 100 entries? 200? [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 16 November 2017

All the excitement this week is about the Irish Sprint Championships which we’re running at Dublin City University on Saturday 2nd [&hellip

Irish Sprint Orienteering Championships

Good news! We just heard that we have permission from Dublin City University to run the event on Saturday 2nd [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 10th November 2017

A bit late with the news this week due to the uncertainty about the Irish Sprint Championships we hope to [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 1st November 2017

Connaught Championships Not too many 3ROC members travelled to last Sunday’s Connaught Championships at Killykeen, Co. Cavan, so well done [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 26 October 2017

The best of luck to the 3ROC runners at the Connacht/Connaught Championships in Ulster on Sunday. Killykeen forest park looks [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 17th October 2017

Well, it was nearly out of the frying pan, into the fire last Sunday with Setanta’s league event at Glenreemore: [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 11 October 2017

This Sunday’s orienteering The Setanta Orienteers event which was postponed from 1st October has been rescheduled for this Sunday, 15th [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 28th September 2017

Event postponed: This Sunday’s Leinster League event at Glenreemore, west of the Wicklow Gap, has been postponed, probably until 15th [&hellip

3ROC News 20th September 2017

The Leinster League kicked off again after the summer last Sunday with our event at the Pine Forest: thanks to [&hellip

3ROC News 11 September 2017

Well, it’s been a busy orienteering summer, but we’re back with our Leinster League event this Sunday, September 17th, at [&hellip

Summer 2017 Orienteering

3ROC orienteering news will be largely on the club Facebook page here over the summer. There’s plenty of orienteering on, [&hellip

Orienteering News 4th May 2017

An excellent Irish Championships at Oughterard in Co. Galway last weekend saw some great performances on challenging courses in tough [&hellip

Orienteering News April 26th 2017

What a great day we had for the League event at Carrick Mountain last Sunday: the weather was perfect for [&hellip

Orienteering News April 19th 2017

All back safe and sound from the JK last weekend – four days of great orienteering in the south-east of [&hellip

3ROC Orienteering News 12th April 2017

Well done to all our prizewinners at last Sunday’s Leinster Championships: challenging courses, particularly the M21Elite which had a high [&hellip

Orienteering News – 6th April 2017

A busy weekend coming up, with a Junior fundraiser sprint event at Massy’s Estate, a nice largely deciduous forest on [&hellip

Orienteering News 29th March 2017

A brief lull in the fixtures this weekend with no serious Leinster orienteering, but we have the Sprint-O event at [&hellip

3ROC News 24th March 2017

Something to look forward to this weekend is the Leinster League event on the Bull Island in Dublin city on [&hellip

3ROC News 15th March 2017

We’ve had some problems with our web page this week, so apologies if you haven’t been able to visit. Facebook [&hellip

3ROC News 8th March 2017

Orienteering this weekend is back in Co. Wicklow, with CNOC’s Leinster League event at Scarr, on Sunday, on the road [&hellip

3ROC News 2nd March 2017

Well, a very wet day in Cavan last Sunday at Fingal’s Leinster League event at Deerpark, Virginia, but Colm Moran [&hellip

3ROC News 23 February 2017

What a great three days orienteering we had last weekend in Armagh! A really imaginative use of the adjoining areas [&hellip

3ROC News 15th February 2017

Well, the same committee were returned to serve you for another year at last Friday’s 3ROC Annual General Meeting: Emma [&hellip

3ROC News 8th February 2017

The 2017 Leinster League starts this Sunday with Setanta’s event at Djouce Woods. Start times are as usual 11 to [&hellip

3ROC News 1st February 2017

Spring, at least as far as the meteorologists are concerned, is here, and with it, the first Sprint event of [&hellip

3ROC News 25th January 2017

Some good 3ROC runs last weekend, both in Ireland and abroad. At CNOC’s Donadea event on Sunday, Mary O’Connell finished [&hellip

3ROC News 15 January 2017

Happy New Year everyone! We have just run our first event of 2017, the first Dublin by Night event in [&hellip

3ROC News 30th December 2016

Happy New Year to you all! We had a big turnout (more than 200) at the Christmas Score Event on [&hellip

3ROC News 13th December 2016

  Our next event, in fact the next event in Leinster, is the Christmas Score event on Three Rock on [&hellip

3ROC News 7th December 2016

3ROC 40th Anniversary celebration this weekend 3ROC are marking the 40th Anniversary of the club this weekend, with some old-style [&hellip

3ROC News 29 November 2016

A misty, moisty, midgey, Monaghan morning last Sunday for Fingal’s Leinster League No 9 at Rossmore Forest Park – beautiful [&hellip

3ROC News 22nd November 2016

A lovely day last Sunday for a run around Massey’s Estate and Hellfire Woods, courtesy of Setanta. Lots of cubs [&hellip

3ROC News 17 November 2016

                Just a quick reminder this week that there’s orienteering on Sunday 20th [&hellip

3ROC News 9 November 2016

We had some challenging courses last Sunday at Carraig na Seabhac, where Ajax provided the day’s orienteering. Very cold conditions with [&hellip

3ROC News 2nd November 2016

Congratulations to the 3ROC prizewinners at last Sunday’s Connacht Championships at Ballygar, Co. Galway: Aidan McCullough M16, Mary O’Connell W50, [&hellip

3ROC News 27th October 2016

All set for our introductory orienteering event st St Catherine’s Park, Lucan on Monday next, 31st October? The long course [&hellip

3ROC News 10th October 2016

Well done to the Irish Junior team who beat Wales last weekend at the Junior Home International near Newcastle on [&hellip

3ROC News 29th September 2016

Back to Fair Mountain for this Sunday’s Leinster League orienteering event: it’s a mixture of detailed open mountain and forest about [&hellip

3ROC News 22nd September 2016

Happy Autumn Equinox everyone! Just over three months to the Christmas Score Event on Three Rock! In the meantime, thanks [&hellip

3ROC News 14th September 2016

Welcome back to the real orienteering season, starting this Sunday (18th September) with our Leinster League event at the Pine [&hellip

3ROC News 24th August 2016

Well, the real orienteering season is about to start and our three evening events in the Phoenix Park are over [&hellip

3ROC News August 2016

Welcome back to everyone after the “summer”! Our three evening events in the Phoenix Park are currently underway: the Papal [&hellip

3ROC News 26th May 2016

The last 3ROC event before the summer is this Sunday’s mountain bike orienteering at Carrick Mountain, Glenealy. Two courses of [&hellip

3ROC News 6th May 2016

Well, after an excellent Irish Championships in Co. Waterford last weekend the main orienteering season is tailing off, except for [&hellip

3ROC News 27th April 2016

Off to the Irish Championships this weekend! WatO are putting on an ambitious programme of sprint, middle, classic and relay [&hellip

3ROC News 19th April 2016

Well, the Leinster Championships are over – a lot of work went into the event over the past year and [&hellip

3ROC News 13th April 2016

Carrick Mountain here we come! The final countdown to the Leinster Championships is on. We have 198 entries, from all [&hellip

3ROC News 6th April 2016

The final course information for the Leinster Championships on Sunday 17th April is on the LOC2016 page here. Final details [&hellip

3ROC News 30th March 2016

All ready for WOW this weekend? The “Wexford Orienteering Weekend” is joint effort by Waterford Orienteers, CNOC and DUO, with [&hellip

3ROC News 23rd April 2016

Happy Easter everyone! 3ROC are off to the 50th Jan Kjellstrom O-Festival (“the JK”) in Yorkshire this weekend – about [&hellip

3ROC News 16th March 2016

Well,we were right about the weather for Ajax’s Leinster League event at the Bull Island last Sunday: another great day’s [&hellip

3ROC News 9th March 2016

Where did all the scouts come from? We had almost 200 people at our come-and-try-it event in the Phoenix Park [&hellip

3ROC News 2nd March 2016

All set for our event in the Phoenix Park on Sunday 6th March: start from 11 to 1 pm at [&hellip

3ROC Mid Term Break!

No local orienteering until Castletown House, Celbridge, on Sunday 28th February for the next Leinster League event, run by Fingal. [&hellip

3ROC News 9th February 2016

Shrove Tuesday today, so just over 6 weeks training left before the JK in Yorkshire at Easter! There are a [&hellip

3ROC News 4th February 2016

Unusual distractions at Fingal’s night event last Saturday at ALSAA – the Dublin Airport sports complex: big noisy things with [&hellip

3ROC News 26th January 2016

After runs at Larch Hill at night on Saturday and Donadea on Sunday, next weekend only has one event in [&hellip

3ROC News 19th January 2016

“Dublin by Night” continued with Setanta’s night event at the Hellfire Club last Saturday. Aonghus ÓCléirigh and Róisín Long took [&hellip

3ROC News 13 January 2016

We had a turnout of nearly 60 for the first “Dublin by Night” night-O of 2016 in the Phoenix Park [&hellip

3ROC News 6th January 2016

Details of the first Dublin by Night event on Friday 8th January are on the 3ROC Facebook page here and [&hellip

Happy New Year!

Where was King Wenceslas when we needed him? Instead of the snow lying deep and crisp and even, we had [&hellip

Happy Christmas from 3ROC

Happy Christmas, everyone, from 3ROC! We hope you have all bought your O-suits, compasses, shoes, GPS and everything, ready for [&hellip

3ROC News 8th December 2015

Munster here we come! Cork Orienteers and Defence Forces Orienteers join forces this Sunday to host the Munster Championships at [&hellip

3ROC news December 1st 2015

As the club Facebook page says, Clodagh (the storm) went orienteering last Sunday at our event at Griffeen Park! The [&hellip

3ROC News November 24th

Come to Griffeen Park, Lucan, on Sunday 29th November for the next 3ROC event, a come-and-try-it introductory event starting from [&hellip

3ROC News November 18th

Well done to our prizewinners at last Sunday’s Connacht Championships at Oakport, Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon:  Cuan Riordan (M12), Aidan McCullough [&hellip

3ROC News 10th November 2015

This weekend’s Connacht Championships brings us to a new area, Oakport in Co. Roscommon, for Sligo Orienteers first big event. [&hellip

3ROC News 3rd November 2015

What a great day’s orienteering we had on the Featherbeds on Sunday, thanks to Ajax! Summertime has returned, with the [&hellip

3ROC News 26th October2015

Congratulations to the Irish Junior Team who emulated the Seniors and beat Wales at the Junior Home International in Co. [&hellip

3ROC News 19th October 2015

After a run around the Curragh at the weekend, it’s more open ground orienteering next weekend although the terrain changes [&hellip

3ROC News 12th October 2015

Well done everyone involved in yesterday’s Leinster League event at Ballyedmonduff– where we turned the Three Rock Mountain map upside [&hellip

Leinster League event October 11th 2015

Our first Leinster League event of the Autumn is on Sunday 11th October at Ballyedmonduff, between Stepaside and Glencullen. This [&hellip

New Orienteering Season starts

September sees the start of the new O-season, with local events in Dublin parks run by Fingal Orienteers and the [&hellip

3 runs in the Phoenix Park

We have three Tuesday evening events in the Phoenix Park in July and August: July 21st at the Papal Cross [&hellip

Summer Orienteering

With the Irish Championships finished, it’s time for some summer orienteering: the Tuesday evening events start on May 19th at [&hellip

3ROC News 6th May 2015

LVO provided us with some great Irish Championship orienteering over the Bank Holiday weekend, with a sprint, Long Distance, Relay, [&hellip

3ROC News 28th April 2015

All set for the Irish Championships at the weekend? We have more than 20 running from the club and six [&hellip

3ROC News 24th April 2015

Well done to all the 3ROC prizewinners  and runners up at last Sunday’s Leinster Championships – they’re all listed on [&hellip

3ROC News 14th April

All ready for the Leinster Championships on Sunday at Lough Firrib? The forecast looks better than it was for the [&hellip

3ROC News 30th March 2015

A big thank you to all the club members who came out in some pretty bad conditions to help at [&hellip

Pine Forest, 29th March 2015

Our final Leinster League event before the summer:  Pine Forest, Rockbrook, Co. Dublin.  Start times 11 am to 1 pm. [&hellip

3ROC News 17th March 2015

Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! We’re back to the Bull Island on Sunday 22nd for Ajax’s Leinster League event: see [&hellip

3ROC News 11th March 2015

A lovely area at Oughaval – Oakwood in Stradbally, Co. Laois for CNOC’s Leinster League event last Sunday, with 3ROC [&hellip

3ROC News 4th March 2015

Pretty grim conditions for our inaugural event at St Catherine’s Park in Lucan last Sunday – fine putting out the [&hellip

Orienteering News – 24th February 2015

We’re running a local introductory orienteering event at St Catherine’s Park, Lucan this Sunday – all the details are here. [&hellip

St Catherine’s Park , Sunday 1st March 2015

3ROC are pleased to bring orienteering to a new area in west Dublin. The park is between Lucan and Leixlip, [&hellip

3ROC News February 16th 2015

A couple of changes to the fixtures list for you: Saturday night “Dublin by Night” at Deerpark, Mount Merrion and [&hellip

3ROC News: 10th February 2015

Some good performances from 3ROC at last Sunday’s Leinster League event hosted by DUO at Djouce Woods: Clodagh Moran pipped [&hellip

3ROC News: February 2nd 2015

The Leinster League starts again this Sunday with DUO’s event at Djouce Woods, on a map borrowed from Setanta with [&hellip

3ROC News: 27th January 2015

This Saturday, Dublin by Night continues at Bushy Park, Terenure, where GEN stage the third event in the series. Start [&hellip

3ROC News – 19th January 2015

The night-O season is in full swing with Setanta’s “Dublin by Night” event on Saturday 24th at Ballinascorney, above Bohernabreena. [&hellip

3ROC news January 4th 2015

Happy New Year everyone! We hope you enjoyed Christmas and the St Stephen’s Day event on Three Rock, even if [&hellip

Next 3ROC event: Night-O January 10th 2015

Our next event is the first “Dublin by Night” event of 2015 in the Phoenix Park on Saturday 10th January. [&hellip

3ROC News 16th December 2014

Well, Happy Christmas everyone! Let’s hope you’re all coming to the annual Christmas Score Event on Three Rock on St [&hellip

3ROC Weekly News 9th December 2014

A few good 3ROC runs last Sunday at the Curragh, notably Cuan Riordan (1st on Yellow by a large margin), [&hellip

3ROC weekly news 2 December 2014

The last Leinster League event before Christmas is on the Curragh on Sunday. The usual start times, 11 am to [&hellip

3ROC Weekly News 25th November

All ready for our local event at Griffeen Valley Park, Lucan, on Saturday 29th. Start times are 10.00 to 12.00 [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: November 17-23

Congratulations to Connacht Championship winners from 3ROC: Cliona McCullough (W20), Mary O’Connell (W50) and John McCullough (M60) on the very [&hellip

This week’s orienteering – November 11-18

Congratulations to 3ROC and UCDO’s Colm Moran on his individual win at last Saturday’s Irish Student Championships at Tyrella in [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: November 4-9

First, if you’re going to the LVO Tyrella event in Co. Down on Saturday next you need to give your [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: October 28-November 2

What a great little area that was at Castlecomer for the combined Leinster and Munster league event on Sunday, particularly [&hellip

This week’s orienteering October 20-27

Remember to enter the Munster Championships (at Muckross, Killarney on Sunday November 2nd) by Thursday 23rd October! See Kerry O [&hellip

This week’s orienteering – October 12-19

Not much happening in Leinster this week, but you can take some time to plan ahead since there’s some good [&hellip

This week’s Orienteering – October 6th

Well done to the 3ROC prizewinners at Saturday’s Northern Ireland Championships at Castle Saunderson: Con Carroll (1st M80), Seán Rothery [&hellip

This week’s Orienteering – September 30th

Thanks to everyone who helped at last weekend’s mountain bike orienteering on Saturday and at the first Leinster League event [&hellip

This weekend’s orienteering – September 27/28

The last shall be first and the first shall be last … A big weekend’s orienteering for 3ROC this week, [&hellip

This week’s Orienteering – September 15th 2014

Two more good performances from Colm Moran (3rd) and Cian May (6th) at Saturday’s MTB-O event on the Curragh, a [&hellip

This week’s orienteering – September 8th

Several 3Rockers took part in Setanta’s mountain bike orienteering at Djouce last Saturday – best result was Colm Moran’s 3rd [&hellip

This week’s Orienteering: September 2nd

This week sees the first Mountain Bike Orienteering event, at Djouce Woods on Saturday 6th, and Fingal’s second “Scatter” event, [&hellip

This week’s Orienteering: August 27th 2014

Welcome back, everyone, after the summer. Our three events in the Phoenix Park went well and you can see the [&hellip

August/September News

The last of our three 3ROC summer Tuesday evening events in the Phoenix Park is on Tuesday 19th August at [&hellip

Phoenix Park Orienteering: Three Days in August

We are running three orienteering events on Tuesday evenings in the Phoenix Park this month: Tuesday 5th August at the [&hellip

3ROC summer news

Tuesday evening orienteering: most Tuesdays from now until late August: get a free T-shirt if you finish four events. See [&hellip

This week: to June 24th

Lagan Valley Orienteers ar on Friday evening staging their annual O-Festival at Newcastle and at Tollymore, Co. Down, this weekend: [&hellip

This week: June 8-17

I know that’s more than a week!  The penultimate CNOC Tuesday evening event is at the eastern part of the [&hellip

This week’s news: June 2nd

Well done to the 3ROC class winners at the Irish 3-Day in Co. Galway this weekend: Oisín May (M10), Caoimhe [&hellip

This week’s news: May 26-June 2

A good solid run in the 127 km  Wicklow Way Relay on Saturday saw the 3ROC Waysters finishing in 15th [&hellip

This week: May 19-25 2014

Well, there’s still plenty of activity this week even if the Leinster League and Irish Championships are over. The CNOC [&hellip

This week’s news: May 11th

GEN ran the final event in the Leinster Spring Cup on Sunday 11th at Brockagh, where the strong wind and [&hellip

This week’s news – May 5 2014

Well done to all our prizewinners and survivors from the weekend’s Irish Championships! We had several Irish Champions from the [&hellip

Updates on our facebook page

Get the latest news, including the Irish Championships,  on the 3ROC facebook page here

This month’s orienteering: April 2014

… not “This week’s orienteering …” as before since there’s not much on locally in April. Firstly, well done to [&hellip

3ROC Leinster Champions 2014

Colm Moran started the week winning the 3ROC Spring Cup event at Pine Forest last Sunday and finished it by [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: March 31-April 6

Well done on our Pine Forest event last Sunday: great to get back to a once-familiar area, but now where [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: March 24-30

For details of our Leinster Spring Cup event at Pine Forest, Rockbrook, on Sunday 30th, click here. The weekly news: [&hellip

Leinster Spring Cup – Pine Forest, 30th March 2014

PINE FOREST – LEINSTER SPRING CUP 30th MARCH 2014 IMPORTANT: PRE-REGISTRATION is available HERE Parking will be in the Cruagh [&hellip

Next 3ROC event: Pine Forest, 30th March

Our next event is the Leinster Spring Cup competition at the Pine Forest on Sunday 30th March. The revised map, [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: March 18-23

Up the walls in Derry … Well done to 3ROC prizewinners Clodagh Moran and Eoin and Aidan McCullough at last [&hellip

TWO: This Week’s Orienteering (March 10-17)

Still not much on in Leinster, unfortunately, but preparations are moving on for our event in the Pine Forest on [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: March 3-10

Well done to 3ROC’s Eoin McCullough (representing Trinity College) and Colm Moran (representing UCD), finishing 2nd and 3rd in the Intervarsity [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: February 24-March 2

  We had a small turnout for our navigation training on Three Rock last Saturday, on a bitterly cold and [&hellip

Orienteering instruction on Saturday 22nd February

Join us at Three Rock Wood, Ticknock, for navigation training on Saturday. At 11 o’clock we’ll be there to show [&hellip

This week’s O-News February 17-23

Well, the Dublin by Night night-O series is finished: our event on Saturday night on Three Rock was poorly attended, [&hellip

This week’s O-News Feb 10-16 2014

Well, no change at last Friday’s AGM: the committee remains as it was, with Honorary Manager John McCullough, Treasurer Gerry [&hellip

3ROC AGM Friday 7th February

A reminder that the 38th AGM of 3ROC will be at Ballinteer St John’s GAA Club, Grange Road, Dublin 16 [&hellip

This week’s O-News February 2nd-9th

First of all, a reminder that the 3ROC AGM is next Friday, 7th February, at Ballinteer St John’s GAA Club, [&hellip

This week’s O-News 27 January – 2 February

The night-O season continued with Fingal’s event at Blanchardstown on Saturday night, where our Mary O’Connell again claimed the short [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: January 20-27

After a big improvement in Saturday’s weather, Setanta Orienteers ran an interesting event, No. 4 in the Dublin by Night [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: January 12-19

Still quiet in Leinster apart from a great run of night events on Saturdays. This weekend, though, we have night-O [&hellip

The mystery of Control #165

Control 165 went missing from the open mountain above Barnacullia during the Christmas Score event on Three Rock in December [&hellip

Night-O: Phoenix Park, Saturday 4th January 2014

We’re running the second event in the “Dublin by Night” series this Saturday in the Phoenix Park. Start times are [&hellip

Happy New Year!

The last Leinster event of 2013 and the first of 2014 run by 3ROC:  a cold and windy St Stephen’s [&hellip

STEPHEN’S DAY FANCY DRESS SCORE ORIENTEERING

3ROC STEPHEN’S DAY FANCY DRESS SCORE ORIENTEERING Whether you have been naughty or nice this year, 3ROC will still have [&hellip

Countdown to Christmas!

The wind-down to Christmas has started, soon to be followed by the sudden realisation that we have an event to [&hellip

This week’s orienteering Dec 9-15

Well, actually, there isn’t a whole lot happening this week in Leinster, except the League Prizegiving at Base Camp in [&hellip

Permanent Orienteering courses at Griffeen

Táimid tar éis a scaoileadh anois ar leagan nua de “Cúrsa buan treodóireachta ata ar fail I Páirc Ghleann an [&hellip

This week’s orienteering – December 2-8

After a quiet few weekends in Leinster it’s full steam ahead this weekend with three events, two in Dublin on [&hellip

This week’s orienteering November 25-December 1st

The May family did well at Sunday’s final Leinster Autumn Series league event at Glendoo: Cian (M14) won the Light [&hellip

This week’s orienteering November 18-24

A small turnout from 3ROC at Fingal’s Leinster Autumn Series league at Castletown House last Sunday saw Gerry Cunningham taking [&hellip

This week’s orienteering: November 11-17

Good to see lots of 3ROC members (includind club Treasurer Gerry Cunningham, above) out at the Hellfire Club last Sunday [&hellip

This week’s orienteering – November 4-10

Hellfire Wood this Sunday (November 10th) is the attraction this week. Setanta are running a local (i.e. non-league) event, start [&hellip

This week’s orienteering 28th October-3rd November

Next Sunday’s Munster Championships are at Toureen Wood near Cahir, Co. Tipperary – entries have closed but there will be [&hellip

This week’s orienteering October 21-28 2013

The rescheduled Connacht Championships are on Sunday 27th at Ballymahon, Co. Longford. Details here. Well done Ger Butler for winning [&hellip

3ROC now on Twitter!

3ROC now have a twitter account to help us keep in touch. Click the twitter logo at the top of [&hellip

Orienteering – October 19/20

Well done to the 3ROC prizewinners at Saturday’s Northern Ireland Championships:  First place for Colm Moran (M21E), Mary O’Connell (W50),  [&hellip

Events – October 12/13

The Northern Ireland Championships are at Meelmore and Luke’s Mountain near Tollymore at the north western corner of the Mourne [&hellip

Orienteering – October 5/6

The main local activity this weekend is Setanta’s Leinster Autumn Series event at Fair Mountain, beside the Wicklow Gap, also [&hellip

SHI & Leinster at Carlingford

Thanks to everyone for helping at yesterday’s epic event at Carlingford. Two Irish winners on the SHI team (Toni O’Donovan [&hellip

Leinster Autumn Series & Senior Home International: September 29th, Carlingford

Click here to see the SHI Video Preview Three events in one: the first Leinster League event of the Autumn [&hellip

Last minute preparations for SHI2013 and Autumn League Event

Two sheep help prepare assembly area and car park for next weekend Senior Home International, Leinster Autumn Series and Lagan [&hellip

Orienteering- 21/22 September

This weekend’s local orienteering is GEN’s event at Cabinteely Park on Sunday. Further afield, some 3Rockers are going to run [&hellip

This weekend’s Orienteering

The last of Fingal’s three “scatter” events takes place on Sunday 15th September at Fr. Collins Park, near Clare Hall [&hellip

Three Rock Orienteering Club supports DeafHear.ie

Following the great support given by orienteers  to our Phoenix Park series of three  events in August we are happy [&hellip

This wekend’s orienteering

Fingal are running their second “scatter” event at Newbridge House, Donabate, Co. Dublin with a mass start at 12.00 on [&hellip

3ROC events planned for 2013/14

Here are some details of the events we plan to run this season: August 13, 20, 27 Three Tuesday evenings [&hellip

Final Phoenix Park Tuesday event results

The results of the third Phoenix Park Tuesday evening event are now on the 3ROC web site “Results” page and on [&hellip

Final Tuesday evening event on August 27th

The 3rd and final Phoenix Park Tuesday evening event is on August 27th, starting at the Magazine Fort inside the [&hellip

Phoenix Park August series No 2

The second 2013 Tuesday evening event is on 20th August at the Furry Glen. Two courses, about 3 km and [&hellip

First Phoenix Park Tuesday a success

Our first Tuesday evening event in the Phoenix Park yesterday (August 13th) attracted about 100 people, many of them newcomers. [&hellip

August Tuesday Evening Orienteering in Phoenix Park

Last year’s August Tuesday Evening series in the Phoenix Park was very popular among both beginners and existing orienteers, so [&hellip

Follow the Irish Team at the World Champs in Finland

The World Championships are on in Finland this week. You can follow the action from the World of O site [&hellip

Follow the Junior World Championships team on the 3ROC facebook page …

Follow the Irish team at the Junior World Championships, including 3ROC’s Eoin McCullough, on the 3ROC facebook page

Missing Link Discovered! JK2011

You may remember the 2011 JK in Northern Ireland. The organisers made three short videos of the event to promote [&hellip

Things are going quiet for a while over the summer …

We’re taking a bit of a break from organising competitions but we’ll have club members competing at the Junior World [&hellip

What’s on this week June 19+

This weekend we have the Setanta Rogaine in Co. Wicklow – see the Setanta web site for details. Entries close [&hellip

What’s on this week – June 12 – 19

Things are starting to get quieter for the summer, with the final CNOC Tuesday evening event and barbecue at Hollywood, [&hellip

What’s on this week … June 5-12

No local orienteering this weekend, but the CNOC event on Tuesday evening is on the Curragh in Co. Kildare. Starts [&hellip

This week’s activity …

CNOC’s third Tuesday evening event is at Hill Wood, Monasterevan, part of the estate once owned by Count John McCormack [&hellip

3ROC run Wicklow Way Relay on Saturday

3ROC again have a team in the IMRA Wicklow Way Relay this Saturday, starting at 7 am at Marlay Park [&hellip

Mays win Fingal Relays for 3ROC

The May family of Una, Cian and Justin mopped up the opposition today in winnming the Fingal Relays at Newbridge [&hellip

This week’s orienteering – May 14-19

Tuesday 14th sees the first CNOC evening event, starting at Lumville House on the edge of the Curragh, near Newbridge, [&hellip

A great Irish Championships for 3ROC!

Very well done to all the 3ROC winners in the weekend’s Irish Championships! We had gold, silver and bronze medallists [&hellip

Good luck at IOC 2013!

Good luck to all the 3ROC runners at this weekend’s Irish Championships in Co. Galway. We have 23 runners in [&hellip

3ROC Win Leinster Inter-Club

3ROC retained the Leinster Inter-Club trophy last Sunday at Corkagh Park, so well done everyone for coming and running! We [&hellip

Come to Corkagh on Sunday 28th April

Can we retain the Leinster Inter-Club Championships we won last May?  The 2013 event is on next Sunday at Corkagh [&hellip

Well done at Clarabeg!

Thanks to everyone for their help in running our event yesterday at Clarabeg. Pat chose a sheltered, sunny spot for [&hellip

Clarabeg orienteering Sunday 21st April 2013

Our Spring series event is this Sunday, 21st April, at Clarabeg, near Laragh, Co. Wicklow. See travel directions here. The [&hellip

This weekend’s Orienteering – 13/14 April

The postponed LVO event at Tyrella, Ballykinler, Co. Down will be run on Saturday 13th: this is the sand dune [&hellip

Irish Relay Championships

Are you going to IOC 2013 in Co. Galway on the May Bank Holiday weekend? Would you like to run [&hellip

Happy Easter!

We’ll have members orienteering in several places over Easter: Ger Butler will be one of the 3Rockers running at the [&hellip

Next weekend’s orienteering – March 23/24

From a famine last weekend to a feast this weekend: a choice of good competitions in Munster, Leinster and Ulster. [&hellip

This weekend’s orienteering – March 16-18

Sadly, not much on this weekend folks: the highlight is Kerry Orienteers’ Munster League event at Banna sand dunes, where [&hellip

New Permanent O Course launched at Griffeen Park, Lucan

3ROC is pleased to announce the launch of a new set of Permanent Orienteering Courses in conjunction with South Dublin [&hellip

This weekend’s orienteering March 9/10

GEN’s Spring Cup event has moved from Ballinastoe to Mall Hill/Brockagh East Top, near Laragh on Sunday. It’s mostly open [&hellip

TCD Super Sprint

The 3ROC duo of Colm Moran and Eoin McCullough took the first two places today in the TCD sprint race, [&hellip

This weekend’s orienteering: Scarr back on again!

The 3rd race of the Campus Sprint series is in Trinity College on Saturday; start times 11 am to 1 [&hellip

CNOC event on Sunday 24th cancelled

The CNOC event at Scarr, Co.Wicklow, has had to be cancelled due to snow in the area.  More details later

This weekend’s orienteering: February 23/24

The Irish Junior Squad are running the second of four Campus Sprint events at Dublin City University on Saturday afternoon. [&hellip

New Committee Elected

Welcome to the 2013 Committee of 3ROC: Ger Butler, Gerry Cunningham (Treasurer), Pat Flanagan, Emma McAuley, John McCullough (Honorary Manager) [&hellip

This weekend’s orienteering

After Friday’s AGM, the first Campus Sprint event is on Saturday morning in UCD, start 11 to 1, with 4 [&hellip

AGM Reminder

Remember that the club’s 38th Annual General Meeting is on at 8 pm this Friday, February 15th, at Glenalbyn Sports [&hellip

Events for 9th/10th February

Saturday night and Sunday morning … The final event of the Dublin by Night series will be in Hollywood Forest [&hellip

February 2nd Night-O at Killiney Hill Park

Ajax are running the 4th “Dublin by Night” event on Saturday. The details are below. Will Ger Butler top the [&hellip

This weekend’s orienteering

Sorry, folks, but there’s only Night-O on locally this weekend: Setanta’s “Dublin by Night” #3, near Ashford in Co. Wicklow [&hellip

Next events

Orienteering events next weekend, 19th/20th January, are:  the second Dublin by Night run by GEN at Carrickgallogan (east of the [&hellip

Night on the Bare Mountain

Conor Short (CNOC) finished ahead of the 3ROC pair of Colm Moran and Justin May in tonight’s  first “Dublin by [&hellip

Night-O Saturday 12th January on Three Rock

We are running the first Dublin by Night event of 2013 on Saturday 12th January at Three Rock Wood, Ticknock., [&hellip

AGM Notice

The 2013 Annual General Meeting will be at Glenalbyn Sports Centre, Stillorgan, on Friday 15th February. Full details will be [&hellip

20 controls – 60 minutes …

Could anyone beat the clock? 20 controls in 60 minutes on Three Rock on St Stephen’s Day?  Justin May showed [&hellip

3ROC W18 Trophy Found!

After a gap of several years the 3ROC Trophy presented to the winner of the W18 class at the Irish [&hellip

Christmas Score Event – December 26th

Happy Christmas everyone! We hope to see you all at our annual Christmas score event at Three Rock Wood, Ticknock, [&hellip

Next 3ROC Events

Watch out for the next few 3ROC events: On the 26th December we have our annual St Stephen’s Day score [&hellip

1, 2, 3 in Connacht Champs

Congratulations to 3ROC’s Kevin Cunningham (1st M14), Brian Hollinshead (2nd M70), Vera Murtagh (2nd W75) and Aine Ni Shuilleabháin (3rd [&hellip

Lynam Lecture 29th November

  The “Lynam Lecture” is aimed at continuing the legacy of Joss Lynam (1924 – 2011), in recognition of his [&hellip

Colm Wins at Castlemorris

Congratulations to 3ROC’s Colm Moran on winning the Brown course at the Leinster Autumn Series competition last Sunday. Fingal Orienteers’ [&hellip

Kilkenny Orienteering Sunday 18th November

The next Leinster event is  Fingal’s Autumn Series in Castlemorris, Co. Kilkenny on Sunday. Start times 11 to 1 pm. [&hellip

Marlay Park orienteering on Sunday 11th November

Location. The next Leinster event will be held in Marlay Park on Sunday 11th November.  A new map of the [&hellip

Carlingford 21 Oct 2012 Splits

After many hours of trawling through files and reading SI boxes we now can confirm the results and add the [&hellip

Provisional results for Carlingford now posted

Thanks to all the helpers at today’s event at Carlingford. The weather was kind, the turnout was good (including a [&hellip

Carlingford Mtn., 21st October: now with added photos!

Details of the Autumn Series event at Carlingford Mountain are on the Events pages of the web site here If [&hellip

Saturday morning training for all!

All 3ROC members, friends and newcomers thinking of taking up orienteering are welcome at Ticknock on Saturday 13th, from 11 to 1 [&hellip

Sunday 14th October: 1st Autumn Series event

Setanta Orienteers are running the first Autumn Series competition this Sunday at Glashaboy Brook, just west of the Wicklow Gap. [&hellip

Orienteering instruction on Saturday 13th October

Welcome to all our new members and to those who have contacted us since our summer events at Farmleigh and [&hellip

3ROC at NI Championships

3ROC took several prizes at today’s Northern Ireland Championships at Binevenagh,  Co. Derry. Colm Moran overtook Ger Butler to win [&hellip

Leinster Champions – Well done!

Congratulations to 3ROC’s prizewinners at yesterday’s Leinster Championships at Carraig na Seabhac in Co. Wicklow: Clodagh Moran (W12), Cliona McCullough [&hellip

Volunteer for Carlingford!

We’re getting ready for our Leinster Autumn Series event at Carlingford, Co. Louth, on Sunday 21st October.  Trina Cleary is [&hellip

3ROC at the Leinster Champs

Good luck to all our runners at Sunday’s Leinster Championships near Glenmacnass. A large group from the club have entered: [&hellip

3ROC Juniors Run Up

Good luck to two 3ROC juniors, Eoin and Cliona McCullough, who have been selected to run on the Irish team [&hellip

All Smiles at Carrick

It was great to see finishers smiling broadly when they crossed the line at today’s mountain bike orienteering event at [&hellip

Carrick MTBO Final Info

Courses are finalised for Saturday’s mountain bike orienteering event at Carrick Mountain, Glenealy. The courses will be about 16 km [&hellip

O-Training for new members

We are running an orienteering instruction session (learn to read a map – use a compass – navigate) on Saturday [&hellip

Mountain Bike Orienteering

John McCullough has planned two courses for the 3ROC MTBO event at Carrick Mountain, Glenealy, on Saturday September 15th. The [&hellip

August Series a Success

Our four “Get lost in the Park” Tuesday evening events in August were a solid start to the season for [&hellip

Phoenix Park evening event 7th Aug

3ROC Orienteering Club ran their first of four  Evening events in Phoenix Park on Tue 7th August attracting more than [&hellip

3ROC’s Colm Moran at Junior World Champs

Update 9th July: Colm finished second of the Irish M20’s in the long race today, in 94th place out of [&hellip

Trina makes A final in World Masters

3ROC’s Trina Cleary has qualified for the W65 class A-Final at the World Masters Orienteering Championships in the Harz Mountains [&hellip

Hundreds try O at Farmleigh

Hundreds of people tried orienteering for the first time at the Athletics Ireland Family Fitness Festival at Farmleigh last Sunday. [&hellip

Wicklow Way Relay 2012

A gallant 3ROC team took to the hills again on May 26th to run the IMRA Wicklow Way Relay, 127 [&hellip

MTBO in September

We plan to run a mountain bike orienteering event on Carrick Mountain near Glenealy, Co. Wicklow, on Saturday 15th September. [&hellip

Irish Championships Wins for 3ROC

Congratulations to the relay team of Ger Butler, Clíona McCullough and Eoin McCullough for their fine win in the Handicap 6 class at IOC 2012 at Castlegregory, Co. Kerry

3ROC win Leinster inter-club Challenge

A good turnout across all the classes saw 3ROC take the Leinster Inter-Club Challenge trophy at GEN’s event at Carrickgolligan on May 20th

3ROC on Irish Teams

Congratulations to all those selected

New Jackets arrive

The new 3ROC club jackets have arrived!

Subscription Reminder!

We are still waiting for some of our members to pay their 2012 annual subscription

3ROC at Jukola

Four 3ROCkers ran in the biggest O-Relays in the world on June 16/17 in Finland

Get Lost in the Park!

We’re getting ready for the new season with four events on Tuesday evenings in the Phoenix Park in August