Eddie Boyle

Gaelic football player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGaelic football player
PlacesIreland
wasFootball player Athlete Gaelic football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth1915, Greenore, Louth, County Louth, Ireland
DeathDecember 2000 (aged 85 years)
Sports Teams
Louth Senior Football Team
The details

Biography

Eddie Boyle (1915 - December 2000) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a full-back for the Louth senior team.

Born in Greenore, County Louth, Boyle first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Louth minor team before later joining the junior side. He later made his senior championship debut. Boyle enjoyed a lengthy career and won two Leinster medal.

As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Boyle won five Railway Cup medals. At club level he was a two-time championship medallist with Cooley Kickhams.

In retirement from playing, Boyle was chosen at full-back on a special team of the century made up of players who never won an All-Ireland medal. He was posthumously chosen on the Louth Football Team of the Millennium.

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