Noel McCarthy

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| office = Teachta Dála

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| constituency = Cork East

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| party = Fine Gael (since 2015)

| otherparty = Labour Party (2009–2015)

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Noel McCarthy (born 1960/1961) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency since the 2024 general election.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Noel-McCarthy.D.2024-11-29/|title=Noel McCarthy|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=3 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/election-24/results/#/cork-east|title=General Election 2024 Live Results – Cork East|work=RTÉ News |date=1 December 2024|access-date=1 December 2024}}

In 2009, McCarthy was elected to Cork County Council for the Fermoy area as a Labour Party candidate.{{cite web|url=https://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=9633|title=Noel McCarthy|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=3 January 2025}} He was re-elected as a Labour councillor in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41529209.html|title=Here's everything you need to know about the new TDs for Cork|work=Irish Examiner|date=3 December 2024|access-date=4 December 2024}} He left Labour in October 2015, when he was not allowed seek a nomination in Cork East for Labour at the 2016 general election, having been previously denied a nomination at the 2011 general election.{{cite news |last1=Browne |first1=Bill |title=Frustrated McCarthy leaves Labour |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/frustrated-mccarthy-leaves-labour/31591557.html |access-date=4 December 2024 |date=10 October 2015}} He joined Fine Gael in November 2015,{{cite news |last1=Roche |first1=Barry |title=Fine Gael adds ex-Labour councillor to Cork East ticket |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/fine-gael-adds-ex-labour-councillor-to-cork-east-ticket-1.2445882 |access-date=29 October 2024 |date=27 November 2015}} and stood as a Fine Gael candidate at the 2016 general election but was not elected. He was re-elected to Cork County Council in 2019 as a Fine Gael councillor.

A small business owner, McCarthy runs an off-licence in Fermoy.