30 Jan 2022

Calling Home: Kylee Dillane in Inishmore

From Sunday Morning, 10:22 am on 30 January 2022

If Kylee Dillane and Irish husband Liam could channel the old Cher song and turn back time, they might reconsider their move back to Liam's homeland in early 2020. Frustrated by rising house prices in Christchurch, where they were living, the parents of two girls under six decided to pack up and move to the Dillane family home on Inishmore - the largest of the three Aran Islands off Ireland's west coast - in January 2020. The family soon found themselves subject to the first of Ireland's many lockdowns, and they've been living through the Covid experience on the rugged and spectacular island ever since. The family have made the best of the situation, though, and there have even been some benefits: Kylee now sells her 'lockdown prints' online after she started taking photographs on the long daily walks she took during lockdown. She's Calling Home this morning.

Kylee and Liam Dillane's children Emilia and Brielle outside a cafe in Inishmore.

Kylee and Liam Dillane's children Emilia and Brielle outside a cafe in Inishmore. Photo: Supplied/Kylee Dillane