Injury and management allowing, Donegal's great full forward, Tony Boyle, will play his 100th senior game for the county on June 11th. Donegal are scheduled to meet Fermanagh in the first round of the Ulster senior football championship on that day.
In his 99 games for Donegal to date, he has scored 20 goals and 206 points. He also won an All-Ireland medal in 1992, an All-Star award in the same year, Railway Cup medals in 1992, 1995 and 1998, and a Dr McKenna Cup medal in 1991.
Although he came on as a sub during Donegal's match against Armagh in July 1990, his first full game for the county was in no less a place than Croke Park, when Donegal were beaten by Meath in an All-Ireland semi-final there in August 1990. He scored his first point for the county during that match too.
For the 30-year-old Dungloe club player and sales representative, highlights of his career to date include "all the games leading to the 1992 All-Ireland".
He told The Irish Times he remembered, in particular, the semi-final against Mayo that year, when he came on worried about an injury and was named man of the match at the end. His debut at Croke Park in 1990 was also something he remembered "vividly". He was marking Mick Lyons of Meath that day.
According to statistics compiled by Father Sean O Gallchoir of Falcarragh Community School, Tony played in all 24 Donegal games between November 10th, 1991 and May 9th, 1993, after which he was sidelined by injury for a year.
He scored in all his 43 appearances with Donegal between October 1995 and March 2000 and played in every one of the county's 27 games between March 1996 and July 1998. Of his 99 appearances for Donegal, he has played at full forward on 88 occasions.
Writing about him recently in the Donegal Democrat, Father O Gallchoir said: "His sincerity and humility, loyalty and constancy, sportsmanship and dedication [have] shone out like bright beacons in the world of Gaelic games."