Neal Blaney (5 November 1889 – 30 October 1948) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, and long-serving member of the Oireachtas.

He was the first president of the Rosnakill branch of Sinn Féin (founded 1916), and was active in Joseph O'Doherty's 1918 general election campaign.

In 1920 he was appointed officer in charge of the Fanad Battalion, 1st Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army.

[2] Arrested on 18 March 1921, Blaney was sentenced to seven years penal servitude and imprisoned at Durham Prison, England until his release in January 1922 following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

In the resulting by-election on 7 December 1948, his son Neil Blaney was elected as the new TD for Donegal East.