Desmond "Des" Cahill (born 12 December 1959) is an Irish sports presenter and commentator with national broadcaster Raidió TeilifÃs Éireann.
Presenter of RTÉ television's 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 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.