Noel Walsh (29 December 1935 – 29 April 2020) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, administrator, selector, manager and member of the Defence Forces.

As a provincial administrator he was pivotal in establishing an open draw in the Munster Senior Football Championship.

As a national administrator he was pivotal in the overturning of the Gaelic Athletic Association's Rule 42, the introduction of the All-Ireland Qualifiers and the spread of floodlights to club and county grounds.

[5] Patrick Hillery's father, later the sixth President of Ireland, delivered Noel upstairs in the family-owned pub.

[9] Walsh spent twenty years as a selector for the Clare football team at senior level.

[1] Walsh advocated an open draw for the Munster Senior Football Championship (Cork and Kerry tended to be seeded).

[1][5] This was in 1990, two years before Clare broke the duopoly, Limerick having had the first attempt in a narrow loss to Kerry in the 1991 Munster Senior Football Championship Final.

[7] When chairman of the Munster Council, Walsh had a pilot project for floodlights at Tralee's Austin Stack Park which "became a template for every county and club ground in the country".

[10] Joe McDonagh, when GAA president, appointed Walsh as chairman of the National Football Development Committee.

[2] However, Walsh's motion later helped justify holding a tribute association football match to Liam Miller at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.