Martin McHugh (bowls)

Hugh Martin McHugh, known as Martin McHugh, was born on 14 May 1973 and is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler. He has competed in five World Bowls Championships, winning a triples bronze medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, a bronze in the combined Irish fours team with Simon Martin, Neil Mulholland and Ian McClure in 2016, and two more bronzes in 2023, in the triples with Ian McClure and Stuart Bennett and in the fours with McClure, Bennett and Adam McKeown. At the Commonwealth Games he has competed seven times, from 1998 to 2022, winning fours gold in 1998 and again in 2022 in a team with Sam Barkley, Adam McKeown and Ian McClure; at the 2022 opening ceremony he and the boxer Michaela Walsh were the flagbearers for Northern Ireland. He has been capped 115 times by Ireland and has won eighteen senior titles at the Irish National Bowls Championships, six in the singles, six in the pairs, two in the triples and two in the fours, along with two junior titles. He has also won four British Isles Bowls Championships.