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Liam Cahill

Liam Cahill
Personal information
Irish name Liam Ó Cathail
Sport Hurling
Position Corner-Forward
Born (1977-10-13) 13 October 1977 (age 40)
Ballingarry, County Tipperary, Ireland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Club(s)
Years Club
Ballingarry
Thurles Sarsfields
Club titles
Tipperary titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1996–2007 Tipperary
Inter-county titles
Munster titles 1
All-Irelands 1
NHL 2
All Stars 1

Liam Cahill (died 13 October 1977) was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Ballingarry and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1990s and 2000s. Cahill transferred to play for Thurles in 2007, winning a County Senior Hurling medal with them in 2009. He transferred back to his native Ballingarry in 2010.

In 1996 he was named in the Hurling All Star team in the corner forward position. He was a member of the Tipperary team the lost both the Munster Final and All Ireland Final to Clare in 1997. Cahill was a substitute as Tipperary won the All-Ireland title in 2001. He was brought back into the panel by Bab's Keating in 2007, and made his last Championship appearance for Tipperary coming on against Dublin in the 2007 hurling qualifiers at Parnell Park.

In September 2013, Cahill was appointed as the new manager of the Tipperary minor hurling team. Tipperary reached the final of the final of the 2015 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship, losing to Galway. Cahill was handed a fresh two-year term as Tipperary minor hurling manager in November 2015.

In September 2017, Cahill was announced as the manager of the Tipperary U-20 hurling team for 2018, stepping up from managing the minor team.


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