Dual players way to go for Offaly, reckons Lowry

Shane Lowry’s allegiance to his native Offaly is almost as well-known as his golfing exploits and the Clara man believes the county’s hopes of resurrecting a glorious past would be improved if they returned to the days of the dual player.

The 2009 Irish Open champion looked on from the stands last Sunday as the hurlers went down bravely to Kilkenny in Tullamore and was also in attendance a week before when the footballers fell four points short of Kildare.

Both defeats were treated as moral victories, given the low ebb at which the two codes have rested in recent times, and the son of 1982 All-Ireland winner Brendan Lowry believes a county of limited resources requires all hands on deck.