The Mick Clifford Podcast: Why a young teacher left Dubai to enter local politics in Kerry

Tommy Cahill tells the Mick Clifford Podcast why he swapped life in Dubai for local politics in rural Kerry

Why did a young teacher leave Dubai to enter local politics? Tommy Cahill explains on the Mick Clifford Podcas

In November 2024, Tommy Cahill found himself, like many of his generation, living abroad.

He was working as a teacher in Dubai when he faced an unexpected dilemma.

His father had just been elected as a TD and was preparing to vacate his council seat in Co Kerry.

What more could a young man want than to return from the sun to the depths of winter to take up an often thankless role in a rural part of the country from which many young people had moved away.

He speaks to the Mick Clifford Podcast about his first year in public life — the shock, the awe, the rewards, and the rain.