Personal information | |||
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Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Half back | ||
Born | County Longford, Ireland | ||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Clonguish | |||
Club titles | |||
Longford titles | 8 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
1960s-1970s | Longford | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Leinster titles | 1 | ||
NFL | 1 |
Brendan Barden was a Gaelic footballer from County Longford, Ireland. He was part of the Longford team that won a National Football League title in 1966 as captain, an O'Byrne Cup in 1965 and a Leinster Senior Football title in 1968. In 1962 he played on the winning Leinster Railway Cup team. In 1966 he was a Leinster All-Star footballer and won a Cú Chulainn Award.
He won a number of Longford Senior Football Championship titles with his club Clonguish during the 1960s and 1970s.
He is the uncle of Longford footballers Enda Barden, Paul Barden, and David Barden.