Del boy McNelis plámáses the Yanks to buy fresh air

We’ve heard of selling sand to Arabs. And selling oil to the Sheiks. And selling snow to Eskimos.

Well now you can add a new one to the list: selling fresh air to gullible gobshites.

Not-your-average-slimy-salesman, Galway City Councillor, Niall McNelis, has ditched his usual trick of generating hot-air, and instead has decided to sell it.

The man who fancies himself as the Del Boy of City Hall – who looks more like the lankier Rodney – is actually selling jars of fresh air apparently sourced from Galway Bay.

The jars of fresh air – basically just a recycled jam jar with a lid on and a sticker, which says ‘fresh air . . . collected from Galway Bay’ – are on sale in his Claddagh and Celtic Jewellery shop at Quay Lane.

The always chirpy former deputy mayor explained: “The idea is that you get the jar and bring it back to wherever you’re from, gather your family around the table, open it, and breathe it in. You might end up with a Claddagh accent or an Irish accent or whatever.”

So popular is the Galway Bay jar of fresh air, McNelis the plámásing maverick is planning to extend the range to include Cliffs of Moher, Aran Islands and Knock air.

Soon, not only will visitors be able to buy holy water at the religious Mayo shrine, they will be able buy a jam jar that purports to be filled with holy air, too.

Of course, Niall ‘never better’ McNelis thinks it’s all a bit of craic. Niall ‘and begorrah, isn’t it a fine day, bejabbers, sure, top of the mornin’ to you, me laddie’ McNelis says it’s just a joke really.

But to the poor unfortunates who fork out €5 a pop for empty jam jars – the joke’s on you.

See also ‘Jobs’ Minister for the Boys’ – ‘Turf War over Pondweed’ – ‘Dev Óg’s deleted Tweet’ and lots more in Bradley Bytes in this week’s City Tribune here.