Cormac ‘Cookie O’Donnell’ who boasts Ardal O’Hanlon among his list of contacts having supported him a hat trick of times, said earlier today he never thought as a teenager that Father Dougal would someday be asking him out for a pint. “Grew up in my teenage years watching Father Ted,” he said, “and I never ever thought that someday Father Dougal would be asking me to go for a pint.” We say: “That’s mad, Ted!”