JP Doyle
Doyle in 2016
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| Full name | John Paul Doyle | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 3 August 1979 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||
| School | Terenure College | ||||||||||||||
| University | St Mary's University College, Twickenham | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Full time referee | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Competition | Apps | |
| 2006-Present 2007-Present 2010-Present 2015 |
RFU Premiership European Challenge Cup Heineken Cup Rugby World Cup |
80 13 19 1 |
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John Paul "JP" Doyle (born 3 August 1979) is an Irish rugby union referee from Dublin, in Leinster. Doyle is one of just six full-time rugby union referees employed by the English Rugby Football Union.
John Paul Doyle (most commonly referred to as JP Doyle) was born on 3 August 1979 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Terry Doyle, former President (2006/7) of the Association of Referees Leinster Branch of the IRFU.
He played scrum-half for Terenure College (school), Terenure College RFC and St Mary's University College, Twickenham where he trained to be a secondary school teacher. He was forced to stop playing due to an injury and surgery on his back in 2002.
Doyle started his refereeing career with the Association of Referees Leinster Branch of the IRFU in 2001 and joined the London Society of RFU Referees in January 2003. He was promoted to the South East Group later in 2003 and to the National Panel in 2006. He refereed the final of the Daily Mail Under 18 Schools Cup at Twickenham Stadium in 2007 and the EDF Energy National Trophy Final in 2008.
He was appointed as a trainee full-time official on 1 September 2008. In May 2010, the Elite Referee Unit (ERU) of the RFU confirmed his full-time contract after successfully completing a two-year trainee programme that had seen him referee in the Premiership, the IRB Sevens circuit, the Churchill Cup and Pacific Rim Rugby Championship tournaments.
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