He captained the Dublin University XV, from where he gained the first of his nine Ireland caps in 1935, against the touring All Blacks.
[1] Boyle, enlisting as a Royal Artillery gunner, was fortunate to survive a bombardment in Dunkirk when the building his group was sheltering in was the only one left standing in a row of houses, before he was successfully evacuated.
After transferring to the Royal Air Force in 1941, he flew in 101 operations as a bomber pilot, which included the Battle of El Alamein.
[2] Post war, Boyle moved into the Colonial Legal Service, serving as a prosecuting counsel during rebellions in Malaya and Kenya.
He later served as a judge for the Special Court that tried EOKA guerillas in pre-independence Cyprus.