John Patrick Donaghy (died 2 October 1987) was an Irish nationalist politician and a physician.
Born into a Roman Catholic family, Donaghy studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast, graduating in 1943, and working at the Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast from 1948 until his retirement in 1984.
[1] From 1953 until 1969, Donaghy served in the Senate of Northern Ireland, first as an independent,[2] then for the Nationalist Party.
In his spare time, he served as a leading member of the Down and Connor Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Catholic Doctors' Guild of Saint Luke, Cosmos and Damian and the Irish Association of Catholic Doctors.
Also a commissioner of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland, he was awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal in 1986.