Straight to the POINT

÷ WHEN Joe Biden recently wrote a letter (Mail) extolling his pride in his Mayo connections, he was simply expressing his love for mayonnaise on his chips with dinner. We all do, Joe. ROBERT SULLIVAN,

Bantry, Co. Cork. ÷ IF I live in a village with under 500 people, and talk Irish, can I burn turf? There’s a population of 550 in the village where the fella selling the turf is from, so which of us is breaking Ryan’s Law? And what exactly does Eamon Ryan use for heat – hot air supplied through his mouth? PHYL KENNEDY-BRUEN,

Galway. ÷ AFTER Boris Becker was jailed for two and a half years, my wife asked: ‘How many months is that?’ I told her: ‘It’s 30, love.’ COLIN CROSS, by email.