How a reality TV show eased this city boy’s path from ‘safe job’ to booming farm business
Despite having ‘no farming background whatsoever’ Brian Dilleen had quit his job and started a vegetable enterprise on half an acre. Things were going well but the next step was to buy his own farm. That was when a US dating show approached him...
Brian Dilleen on his egg and vegetable farm at Craughwell, Co Galway. Photos: Hany Marzouk
City boy Brian Dilleen had spent a decade selling home furnishings when he decided to pack it all in and start farming.
He is now supplying eggs and veg to a series of top-end restaurants and markets, but he got an unlikely leg-up when he needed it most, just as he was about to buy his own farm — he was approached by American company Bravo to participate in a reality TV series called Love Without Borders.
