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Answers: was doyle a demon or angels friend?
who was he?

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Doyle was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to a human mother and a Brachen demon father. Doyle never knew his father or anyone on that side of his family, and his own demonic genes didn't physically manifest themselves until 1991, when he was 21 years-old. At that time, Doyle was a third grade teacher and a soup kitchen volunteer married to Harriet, the love of his life. He didn't take the news of his demonic heritage very well, and his marriage disintegrated. Doyle hid behind the flimsy veneer of a ne'er-do-well hustler, seemingly more interested in where his next drink was coming from than helping others.

Later, he was approached by a fellow Brachen demon, Lucas, who told Doyle that the Scourge, a militant group of pureblood demons, was after all half-breeds and begged for Doyle's help. Doyle turned Lucas away, believing that this wasn't his problem. Soon after he received a vision, which he described as "splittin' migraines that come with pictures," in the throes of which he thought he was having a stroke. The vision showed him a group of massacred Brachen demons. Doyle searched the city to find out if what he had seen was real--it was. These visions, which come from The Powers That Be, are what led Doyle to Angel. As Doyle says, "We all got something to atone for," and therefore the two join forces to fight evil in Los Angeles. Once Cordelia Chase joins the team, Angel Investigations is officially formed.

Doyle soon falls in love with Cordelia, but is afraid she will reject him upon finding out about his demonic heritage. He also forms a close, brotherly bond with Angel. Despite Doyle's reluctance to discuss his past, Angel and Cordelia learn about him when Harry returns to his life, wanting a divorce so she can marry an Ano-Movic demon named Richard (the marriage is called off due to a ritual blessing of the clan that would require Richard to kill Doyle and eat his brain). Doyle's past again comes back to haunt him when the Scourge returns, threatening the Listers, another tribe of human/demon hybrids. During the battle, Doyle sacrifices his own life to save his friends, the Listers, and the city of Los Angeles. In doing so, Doyle fulfils the Listers' prophecy of the "Promised One," the bringer purported to save them from the Scourge in the last days of the 20th century. Before Doyle dies, he shares a passionate kiss with Cordelia (who had only recently learned of -- and accepted -- Doyle's demonic heritage); this is his way of not only saying goodbye to Cordelia, but also passing his visions on to her.

After Doyle's death, he briefly appears in the third season episode "Birthday" and the fifth season episode "You're Welcome" -- both times courtesy of re-used footage from the episode in which he died, "Hero."

In the fifth season of Angel, Lindsey McDonald assumes Doyle's identity in an attempt to convince Angel, Spike, and others that Spike, not Angel, is the subject of the Shanshu Prophecy.

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he was both, friend and part demon.

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He was both. He was a half demon,and he was angel's friend.

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