Pic: An extremely novel method of transporting a mattress in Galway

No need to tie it down there, sure we’ll both hold onto it and it’ll be grand.

Irish people often resist traditional methods of transporting goods, livestock and even people themselves; you can barely go down the road without seeing a lawnmower jutting dangerously out of the boot of a car, a cow in the back seat or a fella hitching a ride in a transport box on a country road. Unless you have a large van at your disposal, mattresses can be pretty hard items to move around, but a couple of people in Galway (just outside the hospital according to JOE reader Ronan Rochford) today came up with the ingenious idea of simply putting it on the roof of the car as if it was something that people do every day of the week.

Only in Ireland. Looks like rain.... @JOEdotie pic.twitter.com/gXRQfLOPA9 — Ronan Rochford (@ronanrochr1) December 23, 2013

  From what we can see, nothing seems to be keeping the mattress secured to the roof apart from the hand of the fella in the front seat, so while the lads deserve to be applauded for their imagination, if you happen to come across a mattress in the middle of the road anywhere around Galway city in the next while, you’ll have a good idea of where it came from. Hat-tip to Ronan Rochford for sending this one into us