It will take more than another Mass to decommission the TJ Reid bomb

In the Father Ted episode where a bomb was planted on Dougal’s milk float, two fellow priests and a tense Ted were involved in a major planning session. Liam Sheedy and co will have gone through a planning process for this final — and their bomb is TJ Reid.

Negating the influence of Reid should have taken some time, both in planning and in preparatory work on the training pitch. Ted eventually found a solution to Dougal’s plight, and it is vital for Tipp that their planned solution also works.