Did Ian O'Doherty's missus walk out on him for a fella from Bootle?
Perhaps he blames his ever-increasing waist line and expanding head on a scally who pinned him down and force fed him doughnuts?
Or maybe he's just a bigot who uses out-dated stereotypes and outight abuse to try and mask his lack of any discernible talent.
Sorry to bring this no-mark up again but he's had another pop at Liverpool and Scousers in general for having the timerity to defend themselves against his outrageous slurs.
In case you haven't seen it, here's O'Doherty's column from yesterday's Irish Independent:

And they say they don't take offence: A red letter day for Liverpool fans
By Ian O'Doherty
Friday June 08 2007
"Really, just when you think people can't get any more thin- skinned, stupid and prickly, you forget that God invented Scousers.
"This column recently pointed out, quite reasonably, that Liverpool's self-mythologising, sense of permanent victimhood, and quite nauseating self-regard made it undoubtedly the most irritating city in Europe. And guess what? Liverpool natives and Liverpool fans alike were outraged at...being accused of being easily outraged.
"Among the slew of emails which came in - ranging from the upset to the completely mental - were some gems, which rather proved the point of the original piece.
"Amidst the dire warnings of boycotts, physical revenge and general sense of an institutionalised persecution complex - all the trademarks of the professional Scouser - some of the sentiments included: "I am disgusted by Ian O'Doherty's bigoted/racist comments about the people of Cork and Liverpool in Tuesday's edition of the Independent..." "Some might consider it racist..."
"These comments are certainly prejudice and are bordering on a form of racism and, although you may dismiss this because one cannot label a region a race, I must remind you that Merseyside has almost 1 million people living within, thus that is nearly one million people prejudged. Although I personally will never read your newspaper again, I would appreciate a reply."
"But what is really repugnant is the number of mails which mentioned Hillsborough, despite the fact that Hillsborough - the one real human tragedy which shocked not Liverpool but anyone who loves football - was never mentioned in the piece.
"Still, it's all part of the mosaic of self-pity, eh?
"Although, coming from a city where the book of condolences for Ken Bigley was actually stolen, who cares what they think?"

Where to beging with this bo***cks?
How about the fact - ask one of your colleagues what facts are Ian, it might change your career - that the Ken Bigley book of condolence was stolen in Birmingham, not Liverpool?
But Scousers are all thieves aren't they Ian? So you have to have something to support your stereotypes - it doesn't matter if the incident you refer to didn't even happen, well not in Liverpool anyway.
It's the self-righteous tone of his rant that gets me as much as anything. He has a pop at an entire city, a number of it's population defend themselves and he accuses them of having a persecution complex!
If his bosses had anything about them, they would force him to apologise or, better still, get rid of him.
Before it became fashionable to be Irish in this country, people from the other side of the Irish Sea had precious few friends in the UK.
But, thanks a shared kindship built up during centuries of cultural and historical links, Liverpool remained a place where the Irish were welcome (except on Netherfield Road!).
It would be a terrible shame if such a good relationship was placed in jeopardy by a bigot like O'Doherty simply because he has been given a platform for his disgraceful views.

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