Tommy Martin: In kicking Shane Lowry over Saudi, we might as well be kicking ourselves

For Irish people, Shane Lowry embodies something real and authentic about our love of sport and sense of ourselves, writes Tommy Martin

It's that time of year again, when Shane Lowry gets a gentle kicking for taking part in the Saudi International golf tournament.

This will be Lowry’s third appearance in the tournament, which first took place in 2019, just a few months, according to US intelligence, after a Saudi hit squad murdered and dismembered the body of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.