Toal's inter-county football career began with the Louth junior side while still a teenager.
He was a member of the panel that progressed to the final of the 1961 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship.
[1] Promoted to the county senior squad in 1962, he went on to have a lengthy career with Louth.
In 1968, he was selected by Leinster and lined out for his province at centre-half back in that year's Railway Cup final.
[5] He also coached Dundalk secondary schools' teams to three Leinster senior football titles.