‘Matured’ Donegal star McHugh ready to size up to Rebels

The first thing you notice on meeting Mark McHugh is his build and size.

Modern football may have embraced the maxim that bigger is better but the man from Kilcar, so vital to his county’s style and success, is no more than average in height and of a similar mass in his civvies.

In that, he is an anachronism, and all the more so this Sunday when Gaelic football’s two behemoths face each other in the first of this year’s All-Ireland semi-finals at an expectant Croke Park.