Full name | Donal Joseph Hingerty | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 January 1920 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 12 December 2007 (aged 87) | ||||||||||||||||
School | O'Connell School | ||||||||||||||||
University | University College Dublin | ||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Dave Hingerty (son) | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Professor | ||||||||||||||||
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Donal Joseph Hingerty (11 January 1920 — 12 December 2007) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Educated at O'Connell School in Dublin, Hingerty played rugby for University College Dublin and debuted for Ireland in a 1945 wartime international, before making three further unofficial appearances in 1946.[1] He was capped officially in the 1947 Five Nations, where he played all four of Ireland's fixtures.[2]
Hingerty was a Professor of Biochemistry at University College Dublin.[3]