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.

In 2009, McCarthy was elected to Cork County Council for the Fermoy area as a Labour Party candidate. He was re-elected as a Labour councillor in 2014. 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. He joined Fine Gael in 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.