John Duggan (6 November 1902 – 17 August 1990) was an Irish hurler. His inter-county career with the

Kilkenny senior hurling team The Kilkenny county hurling team represents Kilkenny in hurling and is governed by Kilkenny GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior ...

lasted from 1929 until 1938.

Biography

Raised near Mullinavat,

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, Duggan was one of nine children born to Denis Duggan, a farmer, and his wife Bridget. Duggan first came to prominence as a hurler with the Knockmoylan team that won the Kilkenny Junior Championship in 1926, however, the team was later stripped of the title. With the Monncoin club Duggan won five Kilkenny Senior Championship medals between 1927 and 1938. Duggan first played at inter-county level as a member of the Kilkenny junior hurling team in 1928 before making his senior debut the following year. Over the course of the next decade he won three All-Ireland medals and six Leinster Championship medals. An All-Ireland runner-up on three occasions, Duggan was captained the team in 1937.

Honours

;Mooncoin *

Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship The Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the St Canice's Credit Union Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Kilkenny SHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Kilkenny County Board of ...

(5): 1927, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1936 ;Kilkenny *

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, known simply as the All-Ireland Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurling competition i ...

(3):

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

* Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (6):

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

National Hurling League The National Hurling League is an annual Inter county, inter-county hurling competition featuring teams from Ireland and England. Founded in 1925 by the Gaelic Athletic Association, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation within the l ...

(1): 1932–33

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duggan, Jack 1902 births 1990 deaths Knockmoylan hurlers Mooncoin hurlers Kilkenny inter-county hurlers All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners People from Mullinavat