Dara Ó Briain 12Foot6. In 2013, Ó Briain joined Jack Dee, Chelsee Healey, Greg James, Melanie C and Philips Idowu in "Through Hell and High Water", a Comic Relief challenge which involved British celebrities canoeing the most difficult rapids of the Zambezi River. They raised over £1 million for the charity. "Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure", a 2015 three-part fly-on-the-wall television series, followed Ó Briain and Ed Byrne on their journey by car down the Pan-American Highway. In June 2015, "Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking", in which Ó Briain travels to Cambridge for a series of interviews with theoretical physicist Stephen
Dara Ó Briain on knocking Sligo out of the 2013 Football Championship was read out on "The Sunday Game", Ó Briain expressed amazement and vowed to try to have one read out every week. Ó Briain has also expressed an interest in Irish cricket, and has written about the subject for the "Guardian" newspaper. Ó Briain was one of fifteen members of a racing greyhound syndicate for several years. The December 2009 transmission of "Three Men Go to Ireland" featured their dog Snip Nua who, by the time of transmission, had been put down following injuries sustained in a race. Ó Briain was