Playing Mr Toad and what does the IRA mean to you?
It's been over two years but, I am happy to say I have returned to the pied a terre amid the Mallorquin hills. My morning repast is sobrasada picante with a glass of chilled sherry. The locals will tell you sobrasada is a sausage made with every part of the pig, including the squeal. Before departing Caledonia's craggy majesty, I heard RAB Cosgrove squealing like the proverbial stuck. Such thin skins these days within PQ. The Scots football website, 'Pie and Bovril' have been running a thread lamenting 'Off the Ball' is now in it's 28th year and wondering what has to occur for RAB and Cowan to be put out to pasture?
At the height of his Rangers Tax Case Blog participation, Pie and Bovril were RAB's comfort blanket. He was amplifying their every demand for Rangers to be given no new way back into Scottish football. RAB shamelessly promoted his tenuous Donegal connections, utilising his Maternal grandmother's name, 'Sarah Leyden' as his Username. Sarah left Donegal aged two years. RAB's reaction to Pie and Bovril wondering aloud as to a new, more appropriate football show on Auntie's frequency, was that of a two year old. Live on air, he extended an invitation to, "any two Pie and Bovril clowns to come on and defend their suggestions"?
RAB much prefers his usual role - PQ's Mr Establishment as befitting the young Turk currently in his 70th year. Seamlessly, often he morphs into Mr Toad, sticking his tongue so far up the arse of his superior, it must be increasingly difficult for Director General, Steven Carson to walk unaided. Only last week he told of spotting Carson's early potential whilst previewing his 2004 documentary, 'Who Kidnapped Shergar'? RAB provided a synopsis, "a poorly performing cross-border active service unit of the IRA were heavily involved in Shergar's disappearance". Apparently, Steve's interpretation of world class horse flesh becoming Kenomeat is unmissable.
If you are not saddle sore, you can gallop after RAB's latest fantasy. Last Sunday, he told us he was from Galway. A mention of Lesley Riddoch's Podcast with Arab supporting, Pat Joyce had RAB proclaiming, "Paddy Joyce, Aye Paddy Joyce, he's the same as me, we're from Galway". This is akin to Phil McFournames batshittery, a Social Worker Chairing his local YoungNats grouping in Baillieston and insisting on them campaigning under the soubriquet, 'the Baillieston Provos'. RAB tongues his Bosses balls, then proceeds in the delight of licking his own, followed by a BIG wet slurp of his arse. RAB's own Podcast with Eamonn O'Neill last broadcast on the 17th March.
The bit firmly between his teeth and RAB spurred the 'mare on PQ street. Under the discussion title, 'Perfect Cousin' he told the tale of his full cousin, Philip Geddes Christmas shopping at Harrods on December 17, 1983. He was present in the store with his wife and after collecting family gifts they separated to purchase each other's present. The IRA detonated the vehicle bomb murdering six folks and injuring ninety. Philip Geddes perished in the blast. The Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture is presented every year on the future of Journalism and Oxford University hands out annual prizes in his name. I wonder if RAB has ever presented the lecture?
It is a particularly relevant question to pose, given RAB's outpourings on the IRA murder of another journalist three years past, Lyra McKee. RAB claimed live on BBC Radio Scotland that the authorities would need to find a new classification for McKee's demise then weekly offered, "ah think she was caught in crossfire"? Now, the Lyra McKee case remains live and there has been arrests. We can say with certain that seven .22 rounds were fired from a recovered pistol. All those rounds were aimed at the PSNI line, Lyra McKee was standing behind a Land Rover, behind the PSNI line. I am sure RAB will reflect on the definition of crossfire?
I arrived where the sunshine spends the winter on Sunday evening and have eaten sobrasada every day. Thus, I claim more right to be Malloquin than RAB's continuing ridiculous claims to be Irish. I note on Pie and Bovril they indulged in Cosgrove Bingo, if you stated the correct time when he first mentions, 'Perth", you win. Of course, we are all asking where in Ireland is Perth? Better was the P and B contributor who had '12.07' as the first utterance only to be trumped by another inquiring, "12.07, is the noon news six minutes long"?