Ireland's Fittest Family is back for a third series with new coaches, rougher courses and tougher competition than ever! Series three will see 12 of the fittest, fastest and strongest families in the country put everything on the line to be the last family standing at the end of our gruelling competition. This year the courses are rougher, and the competition is tougher than ever before. We’ve got two new coaches to join our line-up of sporting heroes. Munster rugby legend Alan Quinlan and Cork Camogie champion Anna Geary join veteran coach Davy Fitz and last year’s newbie Jason Sherlock.
Episode 2 features Jason Sherlock and Alan Quinlan. Six more families take on Hanging Tough over the Irish sea in Dun Laoghaire – The Gills, The Farrens, The Kearneys, The Thompsons, The Wlydes, The Naylors. After two families have been eliminated, Jason and Alan pick their teams from the final 4.
In Episode 3, we’re stuck in the mud in Killary as the four coaches go up against each other for the first time. Davy’s Behans, Jason’s Farrens from Derry, Alan’s Naylors and Anna’s Daverns. Three families will go through to the semi-final. Stormy conditions and a weather warning in the West mean the eliminator has to be postponed…
In Episode 4, we’re back in Killary with four more families – Jason’s Kearneys from Wexford, Davy’s O’Brien Devines from Waterford, Alan’s Wyldes from Dublin and Anna’s Thompsons from Westmeath.
The first of the two semi-finals, with two families being chosen to go through to the final stage of the contest.
The second semi-final sees three more families competing for a chance to take part in the last round.
The Grand Final of series 3 takes place on a specially designed on the runway at Shannon Airport.
The fourth series of the nationwide competition begins. Coaches Davy Fitzgerald and Stephen Hunt put the first six families through their paces in the Tough Mudder competition in Co. Meath.
Coaches Davy Fitzgerald and Stephen Hunt put the second six families through their paces in the Tough Mudder competition in Co. Meath.
The fourth series of the nationwide competition continues. The coaches field their first teams in Dublin docks.
The fourth series of the nationwide competition continues. This week the coaches field their second teams in Dublin docks.
The fourth series of the nationwide competition continues. In the first of this year's quarter-finals, three families battle it out over the gruelling obstacle course Mayhem.
The fourth series of the nationwide competition continues. The gruelling obstacle course Mayhem in Co Tipperary is home once again to the second quarter-finals.
The fourth series of the nationwide competition continues. In the penultimate episode, just four super-fit families have made it to the semi-finals.
Mairead Ronan presents the exciting final in Dublin Docks, as three super fit finalists do everything they can to make sure their family wins 15,000 euro and the coveted title.
Host Mairead Ronan returns alongside coaches Davy Fitzgerald, Anna Geary, Derval O'Rourke and Donncha OCallaghan as toughest families in the country take on the most gruelling and physical challenges imaginable.
Episode two sees Derval O’Rourke’s Mileys from Kildare up against Donncha O’Callaghan’s Allens from Tipperary, Anna Geary’s O’Neills from Meath and Davy Fitzgerald’s Codys from Kilkenny.
Episode 3 sees the 3rd of 4 heats tonight in the FOREST with the Doyles from Derry, the McDonagh’s from Mayo, the Donnellys from Longford and the Cullens from Wexford go head to head for 2 places in the quarter-finals.
The fourth and final heat sees four fit families - the Brackens from Meath, the Kellys from Antrim, the Clare and the Kulczynskis also from Clare - face the bog bath, wherein they must cling upside-down to a log above mud for the longest total time; and that's just to start.
Episode 5 of series 8 is the first of the quarter finals where we have moved out of the FOREST and into the next phase of the competition - THE LAKE.
The second of this year’s quarter finals in 'the Lake'. Four more families battle it out for three places in the semi-final in 'the Swamp'.
After battling through The Forest and The Lake, six families have reached the semi-final at The Swamp, as they compete to be one of four families in the final on The Mountain.
The final four families compete for the title, with the Mahoneys, the Allens, the Mileys, and the Cullens taking part in a series of challenges over two days
The Fittest Family coaches look back over 8 years of Ireland's Fittest Family, and reminisce about their greatest victories and most crushing losses.
Mairead Ronan is back on the hunt to find the nation's fittest families, with the first heat featuring McCarthys, the Lehanes, the Greenans, and the Bissetts.
The O'Sheas Co Clare, the O'Briens from Co Cork, the Mooneys from Dublin, and the Sextons from Co Kildare battle it out for two places in the next round of the competition.
The McDonalds from Antrim, the Cuddys from Roscommon, the McIntyres from Tipperary, and the Corcorans from Westmeath battle it out for two places in the next round.
The fourth and final heat features four new families, from Clare, Co Wexford, Co Kildare and Dublin
The first of the two quarter-finals sees four families and their coaches hoping to do enough to stay in the game and progress to the semi-finals in the swamp
Four families tackle the elements - and each other - as they take a trip to a cold icy lake, all desperate for a place in the semi-final.
Mairead Ronan presents the semi-final as the six remaining teams compete for the four places in the final up for grabs, with the coaches pushing the families to their limits
The final four families compete for the title in Kilruddery, taking on Mountain Madness and new event Slingshot for points.
Grainne Gallanagh, David and Stephen Flynn, Sinead Quinlan and Neil Delamere bring their families to compete for the title in the name of charity.
Mairead Ronan is joined by Donncha O Callaghan, Anna Geary, Davy Fitzgerald and Derval O Rourke to look back on the most memorable moments and families
New presenter Laura Fox is on the hunt to find the nation’s Fittest Family alongside coaches Sonia O’Sullivan, Nina Carberry, Davy Fitzgerald and Donncha O’Callaghan.
Donncha’s Stratford family from Cavan, Davy’s Penny Taylor family from Meath, Nina’s McNamara family from Roscommon, and Sonia’s Maher family from Offaly take on THE LAKE.
Sonia’s Byrnes family from Tipperary, Donncha’s Bonnar family from Waterford, Donncha’s Peters family from Waterford and Nina’s Murphy family from Carlow take on THE FARM.
Mairead Ronan reviews four epic years of the hit show, as she shines a fresh light on some of the biggest moments from TV's toughest challenge in which 48 super-fit families have tackled the mud, the sweat and the tears, all with the aim to become Ireland's Fittest Family.
