Gallery: Johnny Doyle; a career in pictures

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Leinster Football Championship Semi-Final vs Offaly in 2000

Leinster Senior Football Championship Quarter Final against Carlow in 2001

Leinster Football Semi-Final 2001 vs Meath

Leinster Football Championship Final 2003 vs Laois

All Ireland Senior Football Championship Quarter-Final of 2008 vs Cork

In a National League game vs Donegal in 2010 Johnny Doyle and Fergal McNulty get acquainted

Picking up an All-Star in 2010

On the charge against Donegal in the 2011 All-Ireland quarter final

GAA Football All Ireland Senior Championship Round 4 in 2012 against Sligo's Charlie Harrison

Johnny Doyle congratulate's Niall Kelly on a score against Tyrone in 2013

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Kildare legend and all-round sound man Johnny Doyle has announced his retirement from GAA and we at JOE will truly miss him.

By Bradley Maguire

Johnny Doyle has confirmed last last night that he will retire from inter-county GAA with immediate affect.

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Doyle cited family commitments as his reason to call it a day before the start of the Championship.

“I wish to announce my retirement from county football today. I make this decision very reluctantly but do so based on my family commitments,” he said in a statement.

“It has been a great privilege for me to have worn the Kildare jersey for the past 15 years and a wonderful honour to have soldiered with and against so many great players.”

Johnny is a true legend in GAA circles all around the country so here is a gallery of his greatest moments (and Phil Jones impersonations) in a Kildare shirt.