Noel McCarthy
Irish politician
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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.[2][3]
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Noel McCarthy | |
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McCarthy in 2024 | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| Assumed office November 2024 | |
| Constituency | Cork East |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1960/1961 (age 64–65)[1] |
| Party | Fine Gael (since 2015) |
Other political affiliations | Labour Party (2009–2015) |
In 2009, McCarthy was elected to Cork County Council for the Fermoy area as a Labour Party candidate.[4] He was re-elected as a Labour councillor in 2014.[1] 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.[5] He joined Fine Gael in November 2015,[6] 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.[1]