Michael Cahill (born 1965/1966) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a TD for the Kerry constituency since the 2024 general election.
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.
He left Fianna Fáil in January 2011 and canvassed for Tom Fleming, who also left the party. Fleming was elected as an independent TD, with Cahill acting as his parliamentary secretary for a while. Cahill re-joined Fianna Fáil in 2016. In the 2024 Kerry County Council election he was re-elected to Kerry County Council. Later that year he was also elected to Dáil ÃÂireann in the general election on the final count without reaching the quota. His son, Tommy, a primary school teacher, was co-opted to the vacated council seat in December 2024, becoming the third generation of the family to serve on the council.
In January 2026, Cahill was convicted of dangerous driving for driving at speeds in excess of on the M8 motorway. He was fined â¬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".