Ella McSweeney with Thomas Dillon.

Tom Dillon and his pumpkin plot on TV this week

Meath features in this week's return of the 'Ear to the Ground' series when Ella McSweeney visits the reputed home of Halloween, Tlachgta on the Hill of Ward, Athboy, and nearby pumpkin farmer, Thomas Dillon.
The new series begins on Thursday 27th October, at 8.30pm, for a 17 part run. When young farmer Thomas Dillon asked his father Ben for two acres of land to grow pumpkins for Halloween, Ben thought he’d lost the plot. Three years later, Thomas is proving them all wrong. He now grows 13,000 pumpkins a year. This week's programme also looks at rural resettlement, and this year's weather woes for tillage farmers.