Political Career
Doyle, a former sacristan in the local Roman Catholic church in Donnybrook, was first elected to public office as a Dublin City Council for the Pembroke ward at the successful Fine Gael 1979 local elections campaign that laid the groundwork for Fine Gael's winning of 20 extra Dáil seats at the 1981 general election. He served continually in City Hall from 1979 until his retirement at the 2004 local elections. Between 1998 and 1999 he served as Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Doyle was first elected as a Fine Gael TD to Dáil Éireann at the November 1982 general election, where his party constituency colleague was party leader (and after the election Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald).
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