Michael Cahill

Michael Cahill (born 1965/1966)

Biography Cahill is from Rossbeigh on the Atlantic Ocean coast.

He was a long serving councillor on Kerry County Council. He was a member of the council from 1991 to 2024 for the Killorglin and Kenmare areas. His father, Tom Cahill, was also a Fianna Fáil councillor. Fleming was elected as an independent TD, with Cahill acting as his parliamentary secretary for a while.

In January 2026, Cahill was convicted of dangerous driving for driving at speeds in excess of on the M8 motorway. He was fined €500 and disqualified from driving for two years. Following his conviction, Cahill resigned his position as a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration. It later emerged that in 1993 he had been found liable by a court for causing a crash that left a young girl with "difficulty learning to walk".