John Duggan (bishop)

John Coote Duggan (7 April 1918-20 July 2000) was the 11th Bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry from 1970 to 1985.

Educated at The High School, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1942, his first post was a curacy at St Luke's, Cork. He was later the incumbent at Portarlington, then St Paul's Glenageary, Dublin and finally (before his ordinationn to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Tuam.

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John Duggan (rugby)

John "Johnny" Duggan (birth registered January→March 1929 (age 86–87)) birth registered in Wakefield district, is an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Wakefield RFC, as a Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, as a wing, i.e. number 2 or 5.

At the age of 13, Duggan played Stand-Off/Fly-half and captained St Austin's school but he didn't play any further rugby until leaving school at 16 when he joined Wakefield RFC as a Winger. In the 1945/46 season, he scored three tries in four appearances. The following season saw fourteen tries in twenty two games. the 1947/48 season was his last amateur season, he played three games in 1947 scoring two tries.

He signed for Wakefield Trinity at Christmas 1947 when he was 18. In his first full season for Trinity he made 28 appearances and scored seventeen tries, four of them in one game against Featherstone Rovers.