Park near The Liffey briefly heading for Tonduff with one of Olive's family (6)
I believe the answer is:
privet
'olive's family' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'park near the liffey briefly heading for tonduff with one' is the wordplay.
'park' becomes 'P' (abbreviation as on an automatic car's gear lever).
'near the liffey briefly' becomes 'rve' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'heading for' indicates taking the first letters.
'with' indicates putting letters inside.
'one' becomes 'I' (Roman numeral).
The first letter of 'tonduff' is 't'.
'rve'+'t'='rvet'
'rvet' going around 'i' is 'rivet'.
'p'+'rivet'='PRIVET'
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for privet that I've seen before include "hedge material" , "Half evergreen European shrub of the olive family" , "popular boundary choice" , "Garden hedge plant" , "Let the vet rip up the hedge" .)