Danny Nugent
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| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Danny Nugent is a retired Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a defender for the Louth senior football team and for his club Newtown Blues. He also played inter-provincial football for Leinster.
His inter-county career began with the Louth junior side in 1966 while still a teenager. He was a member of the team that defeated Kildare in the final of the Leinster Junior Football Championship,[1][2] scoring the decisive goal in a two-point win.[3] Later that year Nugent won his first Louth Senior Football Championship medal when Newtown Blues beat Cooley Kickhams in the county final at St Brigid's Park.[4] He was team captain in the 1970 county decider when the Drogheda side overcame St Mary's by three points.[5]
Nugent lined out at right half-back against Dublin in the quarter-final of the 1973 Leinster Championship, as Louth beat the Metropolitans by 1–08 to 0-09.[6] At the end of the year he received the Louth GAA Player of the Year award[7] and was nominated for an All-Star.[8] Two years later he was captain of the county side that beat Meath by 0–15 to 1–09 in the opening round of the 1975 provincial championship.[9]