VIDEO: From Top of Coom to the BBC for viral sensations

Three Irish farmers who have become internet sensations after a video of them celebrating the reopening of their local pub went viral are set to open one of the BBC’s top comedy quiz shows tonight.

The producers of Have I Got News for You plan to screen part of the Irish Examiner’s Top of Coom pub clip at the start of tonight’s show at 9pm.

A spokesman for show producers Hat Trick Productions said it was the “tremendous and unique characters” which attracted them to the video.