Brendan Boyle (Gaelic footballer)

Brendan Boyle is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays at midfield for Ardara and also, formerly, for the Donegal county team.[1]

Brendan Boyle

Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Midfield
Club(s)
Years	Club
?–	Ardara
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
200?–?	Donegal

A married civil engineer and graduate of Institute of Technology, Sligo, he spent two years with a serious back injury and almost quit the game.[2]

His championship debut was in the 2002 Ulster Senior Football Championship final, a competition he would never win as a player.[3]

In 2004, he played against Armagh in the Ulster SFC final at Croke Park.[4] In 2009, he played in the Championship victory over Galway at Markievicz Park and the defeat to Cork at Croke Park.[5][6]

References

1. "McGrath returns as Ardara win". Donegal Democrat. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014. Brendan McNelis and Conor Classon extended Ardara's lead before Brendan Boyle landed an Ardara goal to send the visitors in 1-7 to 1-2 in front at half-time.
2. "CASE STUDY 2: Brendan Boyle". Irish Independent. 27 May 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
3. Nulty, Chris (22 July 2011). "1992–2011: The best XV not to win Ulster…". Donegal News. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
4. "Awesome Armagh destroy Donegal". RTÉ Sport. 11 July 2004. Retrieved 11 July 2004. Devenney missed another good chance from a free in the 43rd minute but made no mistake four minutes later after Brendan Boyle was fouled.
5. "Donegal 0-14 Galway 0-13". RTÉ Sport. 25 July 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
6. "Cork 1-27 Donegal 2-10". RTÉ Sport. 2 August 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009. Michael Murphy converted an early Donegal free, but once Cork quelled the early dominance of midfielders Brendan Boyle and Kevin Cassidy, things began to happen for them.