Hughie Travers

Hugh J. Travers, known as Hughie Travers, was an Irish Gaelic footballer who was born in 1943 and died in Letterkenny on 9 July 2024 at the age of 81. At club level he played with Four Masters, and at inter-county level he played with the Donegal senior football team. He first played for Donegal during a three-year spell on the minor team from 1959 to 1961, then moved straight to the under-21 side and won consecutive Ulster Under-21 Football Championship medals in 1963 and 1964, after final victories over Cavan and Monaghan. He also lined out for the junior team and joined the senior panel in that period, collecting a combined four McKenna Cup and Dr Lagan Cup medals between 1963 and 1966, and he played in Donegal's 1965 National Football League semi-final defeat by Kerry.