SE Secondary at Kennedy Park

the first starter

Once again a huge thanks to all the club members from Wato (Liisa, Alan, Thomas, Norman, Elizabeth, Nigel,  Kieran and Brid plus Transition students from Newtown school for stewarding the event today. Thanks to the OPW for allowing us to use the venue.
Despite some floating controls, there was some excellent performances. In the PJC boys, first starter Robert Pim (Newtown) held off the challenge of Conall Whelan (St Kieran's, Kilkenny) whilst cousin Jacob Pim led a 1 2 3 for Newtown in 2/3 boys. William Wallis was the clear winner on the 1st year boys course.

and the last starter

Last starter, Lorna Aylward from St Angela's Waterford had a convincing win over Aoife Treacy (Newtown) in the PJC girls. Ciara Silby was equally convincing in the 2/3 girls ahead of Paloma Baloda and Alice Byrne. Jordan Pim made it a Pim hat trick of wins in the 1st year girls ahead of Abi Coughlan and Poppy Walsh.

Summary of results
PJC Boys: 1. Robert Pim (Newtown School, Waterford); 2. Conall Whelan (St Kieran's Kilkenny); 3. Cian Hogan (NSW)
Teams: 1. Newtown; 2. St Kierans
PJC Girls: 1. Lorna Aylward (St Angela's, Waterford); 2. Aoife Treacy (NSW); 3. Victoria Ebert (NSW)
Teams: 1. Newtown; 2. Presentation, Kilkenny
PJC pairs: 1. Niall and David (St Mary's Enniscorthy); 2. Pascal and Shane (High School Clonmel); 3. Eoghan and Cian (St Marys)
2/3 Boys: 1. Jacob Pim (NSW); 2. Matthew Mosse (NSW); 3. Patrick Hickey (NSW)
Teams: 1. Newtown; 2. Waterpark College; 3. High School, Clonmel; 4. Colaiste Cois Suire
2/3 girls: 1. Ciara Silby (St Angelas); 2. Paloma Baloda (NSW); 3. Alice Byrne (St Angelas)
Teams; 1. St Angelas; 2. Newtown; 3. Presentation Kilkenny
2/3 pairs: 1. Ben and Andrew (Cois Suire); 2. Jordenne and Aoife (St Angelas); 3. Adam and Danny (Cois Suire)
1 Boys: 1. William Wallis (NSW); 2. Ethan Roche (NSW); 3. Dimitry Kodzhasparov (NSW)
Teams: 1. Newtown; 2. Cois Suire
1 Girls: 1. Jordan Pim (NSW); 2. Abi Coughlan (NSW); 3. Poppy Walsh (St Angelas)
Teams: 1. St Angela's; 2. Newtown; 3. Presentation Kilkenny.
1 pairs: 1. Ava and Rebecca (St Angelas); 2. Molly and Catriona (Cois Suire); 3. Megan and Aoife (St Angelas)

Cork schools at Fota

The Cork County Schools Orienteering Championships, Fota, Cobh on February 3rd. 22 schools took part and over 650 pupils had a great time. The course was dry and very picturesque around the gardens. It was run off very successfully by Liam O' Brien and his C.S.O.A. team. Many thanks for the extra help we got on the day from Ted Lucey, Bobby O' Connor, David O' Donovan and the transition pupils from CBS Midleton. 
 

Convent Mallow dominated the primary girls events again while Bunscoil Chriost Ri had a shock win in the 6th. class boys event to regain the JJ Fennessy Cup. Norah O' Brien and Frank O' Brien did their dad proud with big wins in the 1st. year boys and PJC girls events. The best competition however was in the PJC Boys individual event with a big win for Zach Harrington, Clonakilty over Tim O' Sullivan and Zach O' Sullivan- Hourihan.

South East Schools at Kennedy Park

The Southeast Primary schools championships was held at Kennedy Park by kind permission of the OPW on 12th February. A huge thanks to all the Wato members and pupils from Newtown School, Waterford TY programme who ensured that courses opened at 10 and closed by 1 with 350 enthusiastic participants



A small amount of confusion was created by the 5th class pairs from Waterpark getting the 6th class courses and vice versa.
Congratulations to Fenor NS who won the overall trophy for the first time.

5th class boys: 1. Eoghan Whelan (Our Lady's Meadow); 2 Luke Ennis (Fenor); 3. Edward Griffin (Fenor).  Teams: 1. Fenor (+Charlie and Michael); 2. Faithlegg (Benn, Matthew, Storm and Liam); 3. Horeswood (Owen, Daniel, Iwan and John Ryan)

5th class girls: teams 1. Horeswood (Hannah Chapman, Aimee Ennis, Sarah Cummins and Ciara O'Neill); 2. Faithlegg (Laura Cunningham, Abbie Mason, Hannah Morgan and Kate Hartley)

5th class pairs only: 1. Fenor (Mark, Ben, Stephen and Jai); 2. Our Lady's Bower (Daniel, Darragh, Darragh and Cathal); 3. Waterpark (Laura, Danish, Karl and Caoimhe); 4. Templeorum (Aaron, Eoin, Charles and Alex); 5. John of Gods.

6th class boys: 1. Harry Belton (Waterpark); 2. Ciaran Prendergast (St Canices, Rosbercon); 3. Rory Boland (Waterpark)
Teams: 1. St Canices (+Josh Wall, Thomas Hendrick and Adam Molloy); 2. Waterpark (+Mark and Darragh); 3. Butlerstown (Leo, Caelan, David and Daniel)

6th class girls: 1. Lauren Heyes (John of Gods); 2. Emma Walsh (JOG); 3. Ruth Burke (JOG)
Teams: John of Gods (+Emma Murphy); 2. Butlerstown (Niamh, Flora, Rachel and Lucy); 3. St Canices (Wiktoria, Sarah, Tara and Eimear); 4. Fenor

6th class pairs: 1. Fenor (Avery, Nathan, Tom an Dennis); 2. St Canices (Ethan, Brian, Dawid and Kacper); 3. Faithlegg (Conor, Harry, Kieran and James); 4. Waterpark (Marco, Ronan, Ben and Eoin); 5. Templeorum; 6. John of Gods; 7. Butlerstown

Bushy Park brings Leinster Primary and Secondary leagues to close

Most of the league leaders going into the final event of the Leinster Schools Orienteering League (Post Primary) in Bushy Park, Terenure, Dublin pulled off  good results to win their category
outright.  Whilst Ciara Hogan (Castleknock CC) and Abdallah Balasmeh (St Killians CS Bray) had an excellent run in 1st Yr Girls and 5th/6th Yr Boys (A), respectively, it was their first time win and not enough to take the league win.

5th/6th Yr Boys: 1 Abdallah Balasmeh (St Kilians Bray) ; 2 Jessie Lopez II (St Kilians)  3 Aaron Kelly (St Kilians)
TY Boys: 1 Peter Mullan (St Kierans College Kilkenny) ; 2 Lorcan Whelan (St Kierans) ; 3 Paul O'Neill (Castleknock)
2nd/3rd Yr Boys: 1 Sean Nagle (Castleknock); 2. Shaun Mealia  (Castleknock CC); 3 Elliot Owen Griffiths (Wilsons Hospital Multyfarnham)
1st Yr Boys: 1 Henry Beadle (Wilsons Hospital); 2 Niall Harrington (Castleknock); 3 Ben Fleming & Patrick Mooney (Castleknock)  
5th/6th Yr Boys (B) 1 Francisco Gimenez (Wilsons Hospital); 2 Pablo Font (Wilsons Hospital) ; 3 Galo Berrini (Wilsons Hospital)
5th/6th Yr Girls (A) 1 Arianna Harris (Wilsons Hospital); 2 Katie Brown & Isobel Bohan (Castleknock); 3 Claudine Murphy (St Kilians)

TY Girls  1 Aoife Donaghy (St Dominics College Cabra); 2 Aoife Smith (Castleknock); 3 Neringa Dzidolikaite & Rachel Downey (St Kilians) 
2nd/3rd Yr Girls (A) 1 Molly Brown (Castleknock); 2 Aine McGuinness (Castleknock); 3 Aoife
Lally (Castleknock)
1st Yr Girls: 1 Ciara Hogan (Castleknock); 2 Ciara Golden (Castleknock); 3 Rachel Denner & Karina Lepureanu (Castleknock)
5th/6th Yr Girls (B) 1 Hannah Muir & Ali Deac (Castleknock)

Check out the RTE player for a great piece on the Primary schools event here. Just 8 secs separated 2nd and 3rd place in 6th Class Boys category in the exciting final event in the Leinster Schools Primary Orienteering League, which took place in Bushy Park resulting in Joseph
Butterfield (Scoil Mhuire BNS Marino) pipping Sam Hawes (Skryne NS) by the tightest margin to take the league title, whilst Ellie Murphy (Skryne NS) put in yet another winning performance, to easily take the 5th Class Girls title.
6th Class Boys 1 Ryan Mealia & Ben Moran Jackson (St Annes NS Shankill); 2 Joseph Butterfield (Scoil Mhuire Marino); 3 Sam Hawes (Skryne NS)
5th Class Boys, 1 Hugh Turvey (St Fintans NS Sutton); 2 Vincent Walsh Giguere (St Pius X BNS nTerenure) ; 3 Darragh Sullivan & Reuben Tylak (Rathfarnham Parish NS)

6th Class Girls, 1 Cliodhna Donaghy (Mary Help of Christians NS Cabra); 2 Sarah Quinn (Tinahely NS); 3 Robyn Everard (Skryne)
5th Class Girls, 1 Ellie Murphy (Skryne); 2 Katie Cullen (Skryne); 3 Elle Walsh Giguere (St Pius X GNS Terenure)
Beginners,  1 Henry Horan (St Pius) 2 Rachel Simms (St Pius) ; 3 Sam Smalley & Steven Whitehead (Whitechurch NS Rathfarnham)