Honorific-Suffix: | TD |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | November 2024 |
Constituency: | Cork East |
Party: | Fine Gael (since 2015) |
Otherparty: | Labour Party (2009–2015) |
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.[1]
In 2009, McCarthy was elected to Cork County Council for the Fermoy as a Labour Party candidate. He was re-elected as a Labour councillor in 2014.[2] 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 being previously denied a run at the 2011 general election.[3] He joined Fine Gael in November 2015,[4] 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.[2]