{"id":61014,"date":"2025-10-04T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/61014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:33:08","slug":"former-ireland-international-and-multiple-league-of-ireland-winner-andy-boyle-retires-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/61014\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ireland international and multiple League of Ireland winner Andy Boyle retires from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Ireland international Andy Boyle has retired from football. Photo by Cody Glenn\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1291947.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former Ireland international Andy Boyle has retired from football. Photo by Cody Glenn\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Andy Boyle has announced his retirement from football with immediate effect after injuries cut short his stint with Waterford. Boyle (34) was capped once by Ireland under Martin O\u2019Neill and will be best remembered for his integral role in Stephen Kenny&#8217;s golden era at Dundalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The centre half started his senior career with UCD before moving onto Shelbourne but Kenny spotted potential and swooped for the Dubliner when he took over in Louth ahead of the 2013 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ireland international Andy Boyle has retired from football. Photo by Cody Glenn\/Sportsfile Andy Boyle has announced his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2538,61,60,43,6513],"class_list":["post-61014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dundalk-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}