John Doyle

Career

Club

Doyle plays his club football for Allenwood and was awarded Kildare Football player of the Year in 2004 and 2005. Doyle and Allenwood"s form continued in 2006 with a Kildare Senior Football Championship final appearance against Moorefield. Inter-county

He was all round top scorer in the 2008 and 2010 Championships.

Doyle was named as a 2010 Vodafone Gaelic Athletic Association football All Star for his performances with Kildare in the 2010 Championship.

Doyle announced his retirement from inter-county football on April 6, 2014 at the age of 36. On his retirement Doyle had appeared 154 times for his county over a 15 year span.

International rules

Doyle was called up for the 2013 International Rules Series as a replacement for Aidan O"Shea ahead of the second Test. Inter-county

1 Leinster Senior Football Championship (2000)

1 National Football League Division 2 (2012 )

International

1 International Rules Series (2013)

Club

2 Kildare Senior Football League Division 1s (2002, 2004)

1 Kildare Senior Football Championship (2004)

Individual

2 Kildare Senior Player of the Years (2004, 2005)

1 All Stars Award (2010).

Achievements

• Doyle has won one Agricultural Colleges All-Ireland. His talents are very versatile and he has won an All-Ireland Cross Country Athletic College medal and won several boxing medals. He won the Kildare Senior Football Championship with Allenwood in 2004. Doyle has won one Leinster Senior Football Championship medal with Kildare in 2000 and a Kildare Under-21 county title. In 2012 Doyle captained Kildare to the National Football League Division 2 title with a win over Tyrone. In 2012 and 2013 he was on the |Kildare team to win the O"Byrne Cup. He played for Ireland against Australia at Croke Park and won the Series.