Councillor facing rambling chat in southern yard becomes irritable (8)
I believe the answer is:
scratchy
'irritable' is the definition.
(I know that irritable can be written as scratchy)
'councillor facing rambling chat in southern yard' is the wordplay.
'councillor facing' becomes 'cr' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rambling' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'southern' becomes 's' (abbreviation).
'yard' becomes 'y' (abbreviation).
'chat' is an anagram of 'atch'.
'cr'+'atch'='cratch'
's'+'y'='sy'
'cratch' put within 'sy' is 'SCRATCHY'.
'becomes' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scratchy that I've seen before include "carelessly" , "Itchy" , "Playing badly" , "marked by abrasions" , "Irritable" .)