Possible Clues:

• Cause pain to Irish horse, say — one mounted the night before
• Curiously give ear about Government distress
• Looking back, first lady and militant republicans hide Shergar perhaps upset at unfair treatment
• A finicky veggie assumes right to offend
• Distress (someone)
• Grotesque gag on Irish king and first lady will cause distress
• Distress with endless problems one day before
• Distress a good farm bailiff up north
• Would I ever follow a horse so as to distress it?