Don Hingerty
rugby player
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. He was capped officially in the 1947 Five Nations, where he played all four of Ireland's fixtures.
Hingerty was a Professor of Biochemistry at University College Dublin.
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