Des Cahill

Des Cahill
Born	Desmond Cahill
Nationality	Irish
Education	Colaiste Mhuire, Dublin
Occupation	Sportscaster
Employer	RTÉ
Known for	The Sunday Game, Saturday Sport, The Road to Croker, Play It Again, Des, Up for the Match Morning Ireland

Desmond "Des" Cahill (born 12 December 1959) is an Irish sports presenter and commentator with national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Presenter of RTÉ television's hugely popular GAA programme, "The Sunday Game" & RTÉ's flagship weekend sports radio programme, "Saturday Sport". He is also the regular weekday morning Sports Presenter on "Morning Ireland" & "Today with Sean O'Rourke" programmes. He presents "Up For The Match" at the hugely popular pre-All Ireland Final TV programmes.

Cahill was named "Ireland's Most Influential Journalist on Twitter" in 2015 & 2016.

He emerged as a hugely popular figure the first ever series of "Dancing With The Stars" in Ireland. He reached Week 10 in the 12 Week series, partnered by professional dancer, Karen Byrne.

His claim to fame is that he received the first ever standing ovation on the show for his Paso Doble. But it was his "Dessie Swim" move, while posing as Austin Powers, that will be most remembered!

In 2017He presented a daily radio programme called Drivetime Sport on RTÉ Radio 1, while on television he has presented The Sunday Game, The Road to Croker, Play It Again, Des, and Up for the Match.

In 2011, he was blacklisted by the Football Association of Ireland.

Cahill was educated at Colaiste Mhuire, in Dublin, and he began his career as a newspaper reporter. While studying journalism in Rathmines, he spent a couple of years working with The Irish Press group, before moving on to two of Ireland's leading provincial newspapers - the Carlow Nationalist and The Kerryman.

In the late 1970s, while still a Journalism student in Rathmines, Cahill began freelancing for The Irish Press group. He did a weekly match report for the Evening Press called The Big Match, featuring a club GAA match in Dublin.

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