Noelle Vial (December 25, 1959 – January 19, 2003)[citation needed] was an Irish poet from County Donegal, Ireland.

Noelle Sharkey was born on 25 December 1959 in Killybegs, County Donegal, Ireland.

[2][3] Vial wrote poetry and taught creative writing at St Catherine's Vocational School.

Her first poetry collection, Promiscuous Winds was published in the United States in 1995 by Story Line Press.

[5] In 2013, The Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival, supported by The Arts Council and Creative Ireland, established an annual poetry bursary for emerging poets in memory of Vial.