{"id":589462,"date":"2026-08-11T01:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:48:24","slug":"all-ireland-winning-donegal-football-star-james-mchugh-killed-in-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589462\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland winning Donegal football star James McHugh killed in crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">James McHugh, the 1992 All-Ireland winning Donegal football star, was killed in a road <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\">crash<\/a> in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cavan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cavan\/\">Cavan<\/a> on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The collision, involving a car and a van, occurred on the N3 at Drummallaght shortly before 2pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">McHugh, who was driving the car, was fatally injured in the incident and his body was removed to Cavan General Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman passenger, also aged in her 60s, was seriously injured and airlifted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\/\">Beaumont Hospital<\/a> for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the van, a man in his 50s, was taken to Cavan General Hospital to be treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road was closed to facilitate an examination by Garda forensic collision investigators and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,41038,15218,42,43,11318,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-589462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-beaumont-hospital","tag-cavan","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}