Mick Foley looks to have played his last game for Kildare.

The 30-year-old All Star full back has revealed that he won't be involved with Jason Ryan's squad this season after enrolling in a part-time teaching course. He will combine this with teaching full-time at Maynooth Post-Primary School.

Foley, who has been a mainstay of the Kildare defence since making his debut in 2004, is expected to release a statement via the GPA and Kildare county board in the near future confirming his inter-county retirement.

"There isn't enough time for both," he told the Irish Times.

"At this point I won't be involved with Kildare next year. I'm teaching full-time at the moment and I'm also now doing a course outside of teaching, so I've decided that from a career point of view, I'm trying to kind of upscale myself in teaching maths, and I won't be playing with Kildare this year."

The Athy clubman won a Leinster U21 medal in 2004, but had many near misses in a senior career which yielded just an Allianz League Division 2 medal and two O'Byrne Cup mementos.

His last appearance came in last summer's Leinster SFC semi-final defeat to Meath. Fellow defender Hugh McGrillen has also opted off the Kildare panel for 2015.

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