Born in Dublin, Michael Kealy is a graduate of UCD and has been an award-winning Executive Producer with RTÉ Television since 2002; he works in the Entertainment Dept.

Over the course of his TV career he has been Executive Producer of some of the most popular television programmes in the country including, "The Late Late Show", "The Rose of Tralee","The People of the Year Awards" and "Prime Time".  He has also been Head of Delegation at Eurovision for the last four years.

Prior to that, Michael spent 8 years as a Producer with RTE Radio where he was Producer and Producer-In-Charge of such programmes as "The Marian Finucane Show", "Tonight With Vincent Browne", "Today With Pat Kenny", "The Arts Show" and "The Sunday Show".

He also created and produced various other popular shows including, “Morning Glory”, “Future Tense” and “The Full Irish” (RTÉ 2FM).

Michael Kealy is a two-time winner of the Justice Media Awards, a winner of a TV Now award and a two-time IFTA nominee.