| Office: | Teachta Dála |
| Term Start: | November 1982 |
| Term End: | May 2002 |
| Constituency: | Louth |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1936 |
| Birth Place: | County Louth, Ireland |
| Death Place: | County Louth, Ireland |
| Party: | Labour Party |
| Allegiance: | Ireland |
| Branch: | Army Reserve |
| Serviceyears: | 1954–1983 |
| Rank: | Quartermaster |
Michael Bell (1 October 1936 – 20 May 2011) was an Irish Labour Party politician.[1] Bell was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency at the November 1982 general election and retained his seat until losing it at the 2002 general election.[2] He was a trade union official before entering politics. He served on Drogheda Corporation and Louth County Council and was mayor of Drogheda between 1983 and 1984. He died in May 2011.[3]
Bell served with the Local Defence Force (FCÁ) for 29 years, in which he completed a full-time stint on the Irish border between 1969 and 1970 during The Troubles as a senior NCO and had overseen the care of 1,100 Northern Irish refugees at Gormanston Camp in County Meath.[4] [5]