Liam Cahill is currently Director of Communications with the Labour party.
He was previously Principal of The Liam Cahill Consultancy, a leading provider of communications and media advice, training and support to a range of organisations - including providing management and journalism support to a news and features syindication service to more than twenty-five regional, local, community and special interest radio stations. Other clients included Foras na Gaeilge and the Garda Training College as well as the Department of Education and Spear Ireland Group.
Liam spent four years as Director, Communications and Public Policy with Keating & Associates, a leading Irish consultancy in corporate communications. His clients included major companies in the deregulated energy and transport sectors, financial services and natural resources. He played an active role as an independent panellist in the series of 'Your Education Service' consultative forums organised across the country by the Department of Education and Science.
Liam is one of Ireland’s foremost media and communications professionals. He previously worked as Media Relations Manager at Intel Ireland in Leixlip, County Kildare – the biggest and most complex technology investment in the Irish State’s history. In that capacity, he was responsible for providing communications support for the company’s inter-action with a range of key stakeholders – for example - Irish and international media, employees and potential employees, customers, local community, Government and its agencies.
He played lead roles in the teams that developed Intel Ireland’s award-winning websites www.intel.ie and www.scoilnet.ie, in proliferating the Web as an internal communications and business tool and in developing Intel’s award-winning recruitment advertising campaigns since 1995.
He is currently Proprietor / Editor of the most popular website for fans of Gaelic games: 'An Fear Rua - The GAA Unplugged!' In addition, he is actively involved in his local Gaelic football, hurling and under-age soccer clubs.
In the area of Public Affairs, he worked for a time as Programme Manager to Mr. David Andrews when he was Minister for Defence and the Marine and was previously employed as Head of Group Public Affairs and Communications with AIB Group, with responsibility for internal and external communications across the Group’s world-wide businesses. He represented the bank on the Executive Committee of the Irish Council of the European Movement and on the Public Relations Committee of the Irish Bankers' Federation.
While in Intel and AIB he received a number of independent awards for the quality information brochures and corporate videos he produced.
His career in communications was founded on a very successful tenure with RTÉ from 1979 to 1991 - first as an Industrial Reporter, then as Economics Correspondent and later as a Political Correspondent. During that time, a significant proportion of his broadcast work was in Irish, as a frequent reporter and analyst with Radio na Gaeltachta. He was also Dublin Correspondent for Radio Nederland, the Dutch international radio service.
In 1990, he was seconded to Brussels to work as Press Spokesperson for the Irish Presidency of the European Union. He is a former full-time official of the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland (now merged with SIPTU). He served on the national executive councils of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Public Service Executive Union and Administrative Officers Assocation. He has been Chair and Vice-Chair of the RTÉ Trade Union Group, Treasurer and committee member of the Dublin Broadcasting Branch of the NUJ, as well as a member of the union's Broadcasting Council, covering Britain and Ireland. He is a former delegate to the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and to annual conferences of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
Liam is a member of the Irish Labour History Society and served on the Society's committee for a number of years. In 1990 he published 'Forgotten Revolution' his best-selling study of the role of the Labour movement in the Irish War of Independence as it evolved through the Limerick Soviet of 1919.
He has been a member of the Board of Management and committee of the Parents' Association of Gaelsoil na Rithe, in county Meath. Previously, he was a member of the Coiste Gnó of Conradh na Gaeilge and a member of Coiste an Oireachtais.
At an earlier stage in his career he worked as a senior civil servant in the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, in the EU and Law Reform Division of the Department of Justice and in the ESB. He represented Ireland on the EU Committee of Experts in Private International Law and pursued a special post-graduate course in European Law at the University of Amsterdam.
He is a graduate in Civil Law from University College Dublin, a member of the Publication and Public Relations branch of the NUJ and of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland.
He lives in county Meath and is married to Patricia, with twins Eoin and Susan.
