Michael Conaghan (born 4 September 1944) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 2011 to 2016.

[2] He is a teacher by profession, and was vice-principal of Inchicore College of Further Education.

Originally a member of Jim Kemmy's Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), he was the unsuccessful DSP candidate in Dublin West at the 1982 by-election and the November 1982, 1987, and 1989 general elections.

[3] When the party merged with Labour in 1991, he was elected to Dublin City Council representing the Ballyfermot local electoral area.

[3] At the 1997 general election, he was an independent candidate in Dublin Central.