Paul has been a prominent and successful participant in a wide range of outdoor sports in the past 10 years since returning to live in Ireland.
He is a member of Setanta Orienteering Club, the Irish Mountain Running Association and Rathfarnham A.C.
He has served for several terms on club committees in a variety of positions and organised many events on their behalf.
He is currently the IMRA representative on the Dublin Mountains Initiative (DMI) group and in the past has represented Ireland at Mountain Running and at World Championships for Mountain Bike Orienteering and Adventure Racing
His success in adventure race events on home soil particularly in team based adventure race events speaks for itself:
Victories to date have included Carlingford Lough Endurance Challenge (6 times), Ballyhoura Beast (3), National Adventure Marathon (2), Blessington Adventure Race (2), Outsider Adventure Race (2), Wicklow Rogaine (2), Irish Adventure Challenge, Galeforce 12, Kilbroney Challenge, Annacurragh Bike Adventure, Cooley Raid and several other Adventure Ireland organised races. Competing in 2010 was been limited to 4 races due to a combination of injury and organising commitments but these outings have included wins at the Rough Diamond and Lough Derg Monster Adv Races, 2nd in Dingle and 6th in a highly competitive field in Gaelforce whilst a win in the recent Headless Horseman event was a nice start to 2011
Internationally Paul has raced on 5 continents and has enjoyed podium success when coming into teams as a late substitute for several international AR teams.
MSAI is the vehicle through which this experience is being used to provide top quality events and tailored training in Ireland.
The Team aspect of Adventure Racing is something no amount of solo training can replace and is a vital and often overlooked part of adventure race preparation.
In this particular aspect of racing Paul’s experience and aptitude has been proven by race success on many occasions.
Before turning to fulltime event organisation, Paul worked throughout the world on a variety of process and pharmaceutical industry projects as a project engineer, construction and project manager and is qualified Chartered Engineer with the IEI.
Events succesfully organised to date include the 2009 Achill Roar and in 2010 WAR Glendalough & Glenmalure, West Wicklow and Achill Roar, Tulfarris 10, Runamuck Challenge, Howth Aquathon Series, Escape from Ireland Swim and the Glendalough Trail race.
