{"id":630922,"date":"2026-08-11T03:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/630922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:26:27","slug":"all-ireland-winning-donegal-football-star-james-mchugh-killed-in-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/630922\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland winning Donegal football star James McHugh killed in crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

James McHugh, the 1992 All-Ireland winning Donegal football star, was killed in a road crash<\/a> in Co Cavan<\/a> on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The collision, involving a car and a van, occurred on the N3 at Drummallaght shortly before 2pm.<\/p>\n

McHugh, who was driving the car, was fatally injured in the incident and his body was removed to Cavan General Hospital. <\/p>\n

A woman passenger, also aged in her 60s, was seriously injured and airlifted to Beaumont Hospital<\/a> for treatment.<\/p>\n

The driver of the van, a man in his 50s, was taken to Cavan General Hospital to be treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n

The road was closed to facilitate an examination by Garda forensic collision investigators and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the crash or who was travelling on the N3 between Virginia and Cavan, particularly between 1pm and 2pm, to come forward. <\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed are particularly asking motorists who may have dashcam or other camera footage of the area during this time to make it available to them.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Bailieborough Garda station on 042 969 4570, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McHugh, the 1992 All-Ireland winning Donegal football star, was killed in a road crash in Co Cavan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,67554,9,10,42554,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,11697,7,8],"class_list":["post-630922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-beaumont-hospital","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cavan","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117074748495961859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}