Background
Kyle was born in East Belfast and attended Grosvenor Grammar School and Queen"s University Belfast.
Kyle was born in East Belfast and attended Grosvenor Grammar School and Queen"s University Belfast.
He graduated as a doctor in 1975 and has practiced medicine in Belfast and London.
Since 1993 he has been a General Practitioner in Holywood Arches Health Centre. Due to the planned change in local councils in Northern Ireland, the local elections due for 2009 were postponed, awaiting provisions for the new eleven council model (as agreed by the Democratic Unionist Party/Sinn Féin led government. And as a result Kyle, along with all other councillors remained in office.
Kyle was re-elected to Belfast City Council in 2011.
Following the resignation of Dawn Purvis Modern Language Association from the party on 3 June 2010, Kyle was selected as interim leader. Purvis" resignation came in the aftermath of a killing in the Shankill Road area of West Belfast, widely believed to be carried out by the PUP-linked Ulster Volunteer Force.
On the day after the funeral of the murdered man, Kyle claimed that he believed that the UVF had still not decommissioned all of its weapons - as previously confirmed by the Independent Monitoring Commission. Kyle has campaigned over a period of years against expansion of the George Best Belfast City Airport because of alleged noise and other effects on householders.
Kyle was co-opted onto Belfast City Council following the death of party leader and Modern Language Association, David Ervine in 2007, sitting with party colleague Cllr Hugh Smyth Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Kyle as a result became interim leader of a party facing a very uncertain future. With no representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and loyalist politics in clear disagreement with the UVF. A General Meeting of the Progressive Unionist Party held in Belfast on 10 June 2010 issued a statement detailing the Party"s continued support of Doctor Kyle as interim leader, whilst the party has "space and time for a period of mature and considered reflection with reference to its future direction.".
Purvis announced that she could no longer "defend the indefensible", in a clear reference to the killing.
Kyle is a member of Belfast City Council"s Development Committee, Health and Environmental Services Committee, and the Parks and Leisure Committee.