Ex-short trousered person continues low-key comeback Source: Q Writer: Rob Beattie Date: Oct 2001   Ex-short trousered person continues low-key comeback.  Still a sucker for a pun. You couldn't make Gilbert O'Sullivan's career up.  Fourteen Top 40 hits in the 70s, AWOL in the 80s due to wretched contractual wrangles, and a 90s return marked mainly by success in Japan and a rising impatience with those who don't take him seriously.  Delayed for a year, Irlish will satisfy fans of his wry, wordplay-stuffed vignettes with the contrary Sight For Sore Eyes, Have It (the sort of song he would have routinely had a hit with in his heyday) and Say Goodbye, the excellent Latino-tinged single with summery chorus, sung in Spanish.  There are still too many fillers, but for fans the signs are that Gilbert O'Sullivan is on the upswing again.   Rating 3out of 5