Brendan Barden

{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{Use Irish English|date=March 2021}}

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| code=Football

| county=Longford

| province=Leinster

| clposition= Half back

| clubs=Clonguish

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| counties=Longford

| icyears= 1960s-1970s

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| birth_place=County Longford, Ireland

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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,{{cite web |url=http://www.leinstergaa.ie/_fileupload/Archives/P219_222_League.pdf |title=Leinster's National Football League Winning Teams |work=114 Years of Results |page=220 |publisher=Leinster GAA |accessdate=2014-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715023017/http://www.leinstergaa.ie/_fileupload/Archives/P219_222_League.pdf# |archive-date=2015-07-15 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |first=John |last=Scally |year=2011 |title=100 GAA Greats: From Christy Ring to Joe Canning |chapter=Chapter 33: The Flying Flynn - Jimmy Flynn |publisher=Random House |pages=145–146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-eF-iSsUUAC&pg=PT145}} an O'Byrne Cup in 1965 and a Leinster Senior Football title in 1968.{{cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/Longford/Profile.aspx |title=Longford |work=Hogan Stand |access-date=2012-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522212343/http://hoganstand.com/Longford/Profile.aspx# |archive-date=2012-05-22 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.leinstergaa.ie/_fileupload/Archives/P228_230_TeamPic.pdf |title=Longford – Leinster Senior Football Champions 1968 |work=114 Years of Results |page=229 |publisher=Leinster GAA |accessdate=2014-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233420/http://www.leinstergaa.ie/_fileupload/Archives/P228_230_TeamPic.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }} In 1962 he played on the winning Leinster Railway Cup team.{{cite web |title=Individual Honours |url=https://longfordgaelicstats.ie/individual-honours/ |website=Longford Gaelic Stats}}{{cite web |url=http://www.leinstergaa.ie/_fileupload/Archives/P189_195RailwayCupF.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614192009/http://www.leinstergaa.ie/_fileupload/Archives/P189_195RailwayCupF.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-06-14 |title=Leinster Railway Cup Football Winning Teams |work=114 Years of Results |publisher=Leinster GAA |accessdate=2014-01-31 }} In 1966 he was a Leinster All-Star footballer{{cite web |url=http://gaa.ie/page/football_all_stars_60s.html |title=Football All Stars '60s |publisher=Gaelic Athletic Association |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913104522/http://gaa.ie/page/football_all_stars_60s.html |archivedate=2009-09-13}}{{cite web |url=http://www.leinstergaa.ie/_fileupload/Archives/P231_233_%20Football.pdf |title=Leinster's All-Star Footballers (1963-1967) |work=114 Years of Results |page=233 |publisher=Leinster GAA |accessdate=2014-01-31}} and won a Cú Chulainn Award.

He won 8 Longford Senior Football Championship titles with his club Clonguish during the 1960s and 1970s.{{fact|date=March 2021}}