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Ryan McHugh (born 11 April 1994) is an Irish
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er who plays for Cill Chartha and the Donegal county team. He is the brother of
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and the son of
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. A former county minor, McHugh propelled himself onto the national stage in 2014 with a 2–2 blitz of reigning All-Ireland champions
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in their live televised semi-final meeting at
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.


Early life and family

McHugh was reared in Bavin, in south-west Donegal. He is the son of Patrice and the brother of Rachel. He is also the son of
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, the
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television analyst and 1992
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) ( ga, Craobh Shinsir Peile na hÉireann) is the premier competition in Gaelic football. An annual tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), it is contested by the county ...
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. His son
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, Ryan's older brother, is also an All-Ireland SFC winner with Donegal. Ryan McHugh's uncle
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also played in the 1992 All-Ireland Final and received an All Star in 1992. His cousin
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is James's son.


Playing career


Club

With his club Cill Chartha, McHugh won the 2012 Donegal Minor Football Championship as team captain. He scored one point in the final. He also won the 2017 Donegal Senior Football Championship, scoring a point in the final. It was the first time his club had won the title in 24 years, having been defeated by Glenswilly at the same stage the previous year.


Inter-county


Underage

McHugh won an
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and
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ed the 2012 Donegal minor team. He played in the under-21 team that lost to
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in the 2013 Ulster final, though had been troubled by a calf injury beforehand. He also played on the under-21 team that lost to Cavan in the 2014 Ulster final. He played in the 2015 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship final loss to Tyrone.


Jim McGuinness: 2012–14

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drafted McHugh into his senior squad ahead of the 2013 season, with Donegal the defending All-Ireland champions. Colm Keys of the ''
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'' named him as the third of his "ten young guns aiming to fire in the league" ahead of the 2013 National Football League. McHugh made his senior competitive debut in a home game against Down in the 2013 National Football League on 9 February 2013. He made his senior championship debut against Down as well later that year in June. Photographs of him appeared in the media the following day. McHugh won his first
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in
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, scoring one point as Donegal defeated
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in the final. McHugh propelled himself onto the national stage with a 2–2 blitz of All-Ireland champions
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in the 2014 semi-final meeting at
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on 31 August. Man of the match in that game, McHugh described himself as "fortunate" to have scored his two goals. His brother
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left him to the bus that morning, then sat by "and watched as yan McHughbecame a household name in one afternoon". Donegal qualified for the
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but lost to Kerry by a single score, with
Colm McFadden Colm Anthony McFadden ( ga, Colm Antóin Mac Pháidín; born 1982/3) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays at full forward for St Michael's and, from 2002 to 2016, for the Donegal county team. McFadden is Donegal's most-capped Championship ...
striking the goalpost to the left of goalkeeper Brian Kelly in the third minute of stoppage time. In October 2014, McHugh was named as that year's
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.


Bonner–McGuinness interim: 2014–17

Under the management of McGuinness's
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, McHugh started the opening fixture of the 2015 National Football League at home to
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. He also started the next game against Dublin at Croke Park, the third fixture against Cork in
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and the fourth fixture against Monaghan. He started the fifth fixture against Kerry at
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and scored a goal. He started the sixth fixture against Tyrone and scored 1–1. He also started the seventh fixture against Mayo. Donegal qualified for the NFL semi-final. McHugh also started and completed this game but was held scoreless. McHugh started the 2015 Ulster Senior Football Championship final. He had previously started the preliminary round against Tyrone, the quarter-final against Armagh and the semi-final against Derry. McHugh scored an important goal in the
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qualifier defeat of Galway at Croke Park and started the next game against Mayo at the same venue. McHugh started the opening fixture of the 2016 National Football League away to Down and scored 2–0. He then started the second fixture against Cork, a ten-point win in Ballyshannon. He started the third fixture against Mayo and scored 0–2. He started the fourth fixture, away to Kerry at
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. He started the fifth fixture against Roscommon and scored 0–1. He also started the sixth and seventh fixtures, away to Dublin at Croke Park and Monaghan in
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respectively. Donegal qualified for the NFL semi-final. McHugh started this game too. McHugh started the 2016 Ulster Senior Football Championship final, scoring 0–3. He had previously started the quarter-final against Fermanagh, the semi-final against Monaghan and the semi-final replay against the same opposition. McHugh scored 0–3 in the
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qualifier defeat of Cork at Croke Park. He then scored yet another goal against reigning All-Ireland SFC champions Dublin in the next game, at the same venue. His performances during the 2016 season earned him an All Star, the county's 32nd. McHugh started the opening fixture of the
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against Kerry and scored 0–1. He then started the second fixture away to Roscommon. He scored another goal against Dublin in the third round of fixtures. He started the fourth fixture against Cavan and scored 0–1. He started the fifth fixture against Tyrone and scored 0–2. He also started the sixth fixture against Monaghan. McHugh started the 2017 Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final victory against Antrim (scoring 0–1) and the semi-final loss to Tyrone. He started the
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qualifier defeat of Meath at
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and scored a goal. He then started the qualifier loss to Galway at
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.


Declan Bonner: 2017–

Under the management of
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, McHugh started for Donegal in the opening fixture of the 2018 National Football League against
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in
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. He scored a point in the next game against
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. He scored 0–3 in the third game against Dublin and 1–2 in the fourth game against
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. He started against Tyrone and
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in the fifth and sixth games, though was not part of the seventh game against
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. McHugh started the final and scored a goal as Donegal secured the
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. He had previously started the preliminary round against Cavan (scoring a goal), the quarter-final against Derry (scoring 0–2) and the semi-final against Down (again scoring 0–2). On 26 September 2018, however, it was announced that McHugh had accepted medical advice and would be sidelined for the remainder of the year due to concussion. His injury came while playing for his club in a challenge match against Dublin champions St Vincents in Cavan in late August 2018 — he received a blow to the head during that match. Concussion had also caused McHugh to spend six weeks on the sideline following a 2018 National Football League game (against Kildare or Tyrone depending on which report you read) earlier that year. The injury meant he could take no part in the
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(of which his club were the defending champions), news which was worsened when taken in the context of the earlier loss of McHugh's club and county teammate
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to a cruciate ligament injury. McHugh won a second All-Star at the end of the season. This remarkable achievement was further contextualized when McHugh later revealed he had suffered a "a slight bleed" in his brain and two concussions in seven months during that season. McHugh started against
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in the opening fixture of the 2019 National Football League in
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. He also started the next fixtures against Meath,
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,
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and
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. He started and scored two points in the sixth fixture against
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. He started the seventh fixture against Kildare and scored three points. Donegal qualified for the National Football League Division 2 final and McHugh started the game as Donegal defeated Meath to win the title. McHugh won his third Ulster SFC in 2019, scoring one point as Donegal defeated Cavan in the final. He had previously started the quarter-final against Fermanagh and the semi-final against Tyrone (scoring 0–1 in the latter game). McHugh started each of Donegal's first five fixtures of the 2020 National Football League against Mayo, Meath, Galway, Dublin and Monaghan, though he scored only once (against Mayo in the opening game). Then the
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brought play to a halt. Play resumed behind closed doors on 18 October with a home game against Tyrone; McHugh started that game and scored three points. He did not participate in the concluding game of the league campaign (away to Kerry) as he and other senior players (such as
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, Hugh McFadden and Eoghan Bán Gallagher) were rested ahead of the 2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final against Tyrone the following Sunday. McHugh started and completed that opening victory against Tyrone, though he did not score. He also started the semi-final victory against Armagh, scoring two points. McHugh made his hundredth appearance for Donegal against Cavan in the 2020 Ulster SFC final. He scored a point in what proved to be the season's concluding game for his team. McHugh started in the half-back line in each of Donegal's four fixtures of the 2021 National Football League (against Tyrone, Monaghan, Armagh and Dublin), completing all four and scoring a point against Armagh. In the 2021 Ulster Senior Football Championship, he started each of Donegal's three fixtures and scored four points against Down in the opening round but was held scoreless against Derry in the quarter-final and against Tyrone in the semi-final. McHugh started each of Donegal's fixtures of the 2022 National Football League, against Mayo, Kildare, Kerry, Tyrone, Monaghan, Dublin and Armagh. He scored a point against Mayo, followed by a goal and a point in the second fixture against Kildare. He did not score in the third fixture, away to Kerry. He scored a point against Tyrone in the fourth fixture but failed to score again in the next game, a loss to Monaghan. He then scored a point away to Dublin in the penultimate fixture, before being held scoreless in the win against Armagh at
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. In the 2022 Ulster Senior Football Championship, McHugh started each of Donegal's three fixtures but was held scoreless in two of them, the quarter-final against Armagh and the semi-final against Cavan. He scored one point in the final against Derry but his team lost that game after
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. He also started the
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qualifier loss to Armagh, scoring a point.


Player profile

McHugh's footballing intelligence is equivalent to that of
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and his instincts are similar to Maurice Fitzgerald. He is possessed of a low centre of gravity and a slight physical frame. With an excellent positional sense, he dips his shoulders to set off on a run. Over 30 metres he can accelerate his pace. His mannerisms and
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are more similar to his father than the other McHughs. Though he plays in the half-back line, he is often a goalscorer. McHugh has been likened to a child of school-going age — "You'd think he had just stepped off a school bus", Benny Tierney, the GAA
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, once said. His former county manager
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has suggested: "Even when the big hits are going in, Ryan has the ability to summon that little shimmy that helps to take him past defenders and allows him to set up colleagues."
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is another admirer.


Other activities


English Football League Championship

McHugh, though from a football family, often used to play a bit of soccer with St Catherine's "as a distraction". A scout for the professional English league side
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spotted him at the age of 16 and McHugh was invited to England for a trial. However, after playing several games, McHugh decided he would prefer to return to football so off he went, back home. That Reading team, then managed by Brian McDermott, were one year away from promotion to the
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Peil Star video

In 2016, Ryan appeared in a street Gaelic football film created by Peil Star with Kieran Hughes (Monaghan), Richie Donnelly (Tyrone) and Niall McKeever (Antrim). The film was shot at Belfast's
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Personal life

As of 2020, Ryan McHugh was working at Ocean Knowledge, a fertiliser company, in Kilcar. Ocean Knowledge employs him in the role of business development manager. Published on page 14 of that day's print edition with the title "Putting the extra time to good use: Footballer Ryan McHugh on work, home life and dreams". His cousin
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also works there. The McHugh cousins often play
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together. As of 2021, McHugh was sharing an apartment with his partner Bridget Molloy. He has had a girlfriend since at least 2016. He has supported
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since childhood.


Career statistics


Honours

;Donegal *
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) ( ga, Craobh Shinsir Peile na hÉireann) is the premier competition in Gaelic football. An annual tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), it is contested by the county ...
runner-up:
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Ulster Senior Football Championship The Ulster Senior Football Championship is an inter-county competition for Gaelic football teams in the province of Ulster. It is organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and begins in early May. The final is usu ...
:
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* National Football League Division 2:
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*
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runner-up: 2013, 2014, 2015 * Ulster MFL Shield: 2011 *
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: 2011 ;Cill Chartha *
Donegal Senior Football Championship The Donegal Senior Football Championship (abbreviated as Donegal SFC) is an annual football competition organised by Donegal GAA and contested by the highest-level clubs, to determine the best team in County Donegal. Since 2016, it has been known ...
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* Donegal Senior Football League Division 1: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 * Donegal Under-21 Football Championship: 2011, 2013, 2015 * Donegal Minor Football Championship: 2012 ( c.) ;Individual *
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: 2014 * All Star: 2016, 2018 **Nominated in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 * ''
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'' Player of the Year: 2014 * ''
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'' Team of the Year: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McHugh, Ryan 1994 births Living people Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers Gaelic footballers who switched code Gaelic football forwards
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