Kevin Cahill (author)

Kevin James Cahill FRSA (born October 1944) is an author and investigative journalist, living in Devon, England.

Cahill was educated at Rockwell College, Cashel, County Tipperary, in Ireland, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned in July 1965 and served as a platoon commander in Aden, Bahrain, and Northern Ireland, leaving the army in 1968. He attended the (new) University of Ulster as a mature student from 1972 to 1975. He was Chairman of the Union and left with an honours degree (BA) in English Literature. At university he won (with Michael Hughes) the Irish Times National Debating Championship. His operetta (translator Aine Ní Currain) Dado won the main award at three of the four provincial drama festivals and opened the national drama festival in Dublin in 1975. At the University, he was a friend of Professor Boris Bratus, Marshall Zukhov's German translator in Germany in 1945.

Cahill later worked as a systems analyst at Farrington Data, Rank Xerox, Glaxo Ltd, Gulf Oil UK, and Singer & Friedlander merchant bank. He finished his professional career in computers as a project manager at International Computers Limited.

In 1979 he became a full-time journalist. Starting with Computer Weekly as International and Finance Editor, then went to Computer News as Deputy Editor. He was associated with various other computer magazines including Nikkei Computer and Asia Computer Monthly. In 1988, he moved to work on the Sunday Times Rich List with Dr Philip Beresford and stayed at the Sunday Times in various capacities, including a major stint on Insight, until 1990.

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