How sad that in the year 2013 a young sportsman should feel so acutely the sensitivities of faith and citizenship. Yet this is the desperate territory Rory McIlroy is asked to negotiate, a Catholic boy from Belfast, who played his amateur golf for Ireland yet travels on a British passport. It is an irony of sorts that golfballs were among the weapons discharged at police during rioting by loyalists in Belfast enraged at the lowering of the Union flag at City Hall. You cannot be further removed from the pit of Northern Ireland's socio-political upheaval than the top of Australia's second tallest building. Yet, even strapped to the roof of the Sydney Tower, there was no protection from the...
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