Ballymun kids challenge perception of golf as elitist sport

THERE’S a lot to be said for the game of golf (and a lot against), but few people have ever held the sport aloft as a paradigm of social equality.

Whether it’s Hootie Johnson and his ongoing feud with the American feminist movement, or just the run-of-the-mill snobbery still to be found in many clubhouses around the globe, the ancient game has always been linked with the upper echelons of society.

Like many class boundaries, that particular wall is slowly coming down and nowhere is that more evident than in Ballymun on Dublin’s northside.