About this programme

1/2. Having sailed along the River Thames in a replica skiff in Three Men in a Boat, and visited Cornwall in Three Men in Another Boat, comedians Dara O Briain, Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath take to the water once more. In the first of a two-part special they are on Dara's home turf, setting off on a Guinness barge along the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and the Shannon from Dublin to Limerick, where Dara is to be a judge at the poetry festival. But they soon realise the vessel is not going to get them to Limerick fast enough and have to come up with another plan.