Possible Clues:

• Insulting Irish city, I therefore receive imprisonment
• The rambling rose I planted in, parched? That�s ridiculous
• Laughably inadequate
• Pathetic old man recalled being grabbed by swimmer
• When Roy rides out, it's laughable
• Fish swallows retreating father? That's ridiculous
• Ridiculous day your old dad returned
• Ridiculously small fish cut by father from the back
• In a city (not London) is nothing totally unimportant
• Osier: dry, withered and pathetic