Sir – My late mother-in-law from Wexford gave excellent shopping advice: “You’ll get that for half nothing.” My Wexford sister-in-law gives encouraging advice in difficult circumstances: “Take pucks of no notice.” It’s only in mathematics that nothing remains nothing when divided or multiplied. Real life has more possibilities. – Yours, etc,
IRENE ALLEN,
Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
Sir, – On watching a particularly physical encounter on a rugby pitch or hurling field my late father would have opined, “No place for a clergyman’s son.” Another of his favourites was when referring to somebody very shrewd: “He wouldn’t sell his hen on a rainy day.” – Yours, etc,
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TIM DONNELLY,
Rostrevor,
Co Down.