Series 1, Episode 5 – Travel and Transport
The Liffey is an intimate portrait of a river and the people it meets on its way to the sea. The six-part documentary series captures the lives and stories of a diverse group of people who are unified by one thing, the river Liffey.
Episode 5 – Transport
The Liffey provides access to the rest of the country through the canals and to the rest of the world as it joins the Irish Sea.
Historian Donal Fallon goes on a Liffey voyage to tell us about some of the Liffey’s most iconic and forgotten bridges.
Blessington based Jim Schofield spent a year building a boat in his shed with the intention of taking it on a solo voyage across the Atlantic. We follow his journey and see him take the first steps on his solo trans-Atlantic voyage in the mouth of the Liffey.
We meet three generations of female rowers in the historic St Pats ’dockers rowers club who carry on the tradition of skiff rowing in the choppy waters of the Liffey as it ventures out to the sea.
Broadcast date – 12th June 2022, RTÉ One, 7.30pm
People featured in episode five:
Donal Fallon, historian
Jim Schofield, Liffey sailor
Irene Montgomery, St Pats rower
Laura Montgomery, St Pats rower