Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Caoimhín Ó Nualláin | ||
Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Left half back | ||
Born | Sept 1988[1] Dublin, Ireland | ||
Occupation | Teacher of PE[2] | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
2006-2018[2] 2018? 2019? onwards | Kilmacud Crokes Cremartin | ||
Club titles | |||
Dublin titles | 2 | ||
Leinster titles | 2 | ||
All-Ireland Titles | 1 | ||
Colleges(s) | |||
Years | College | ||
DCU UUJ | |||
College titles | |||
Sigerson titles | 1[2] | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2008-2015 | Dublin | 22 (0–05) | |
Inter-county titles | |||
Leinster titles | 6 | ||
All-Irelands | 2 | ||
NFL | 2 | ||
All Stars | 1 |
Kevin Nolan (born 19 September 1988)[1] is a Gaelic footballer who formerly played for Kilmacud Crokes and the Dublin county team.
On the field of play, Nolan won a Sigerson Cup with DCU; an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship with Kilmacud Crokes; a National Football League and All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with Dublin, winning the man of the match award for his performance in the final of the latter.[2]
Nolan was raised in the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown suburb of Monkstown.[2] He attended Holly Park for his education.[2] He played association football with St Joseph's Boys in Sallynoggin.[2] English association football clubs Leicester City and Blackburn Rovers expressed an interest and invited him to go to England for trials.[2] He left that sport due to making progress with the Dublin minor football team.[2]
Nolan won the 2008 Dublin Senior Football Championship with Kilmacud Crokes. He then won a Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, Dublin Division One AFL and the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.[3]
He played his last game with Crokes in 2018, when he moved to County Monaghan and began playing for Cremartin.[2]
Nolan won a Sigerson Cup with DCU.[2]
Nolan won the Dublin Minor Football Championship.
He made his championship debut for Dublin against Wexford in the final of the 2008 Leinster Senior Football Championship.[4]
He won five further Leinster Senior Football Championships with Dublin: in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Nolan was named the man of the match in the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, as Dublin won their first title in sixteen years.[5] He was part of the half-back line with James McCarthy and Ger Brennan, and also scored during the final.[2]
However, injury and a medical condition limited his further development as a player.[1]
Jim Gavin called time on Nolan's inter-county career by omitting him from the Dublin panel before the start of the 2015 Championship.[1]
Nolan won the U-17 International Rules Series with Ireland.
Nolan later moved from his base in Lucan[1] to County Monaghan (close to Castleblayney)[2] and married Lorna[2] (to whom he became engaged in 2017)[1] in April 2019.[2] He previously suggested an openness to playing for the Monaghan county football team.[1] This never came to be.
Awards | ||
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Preceded by | All-Ireland Senior Football Final Man of the Match 2011 | Succeeded by |
Kilmacud Crokes squads | |||||
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2011 All Star Gaelic Football Team | |
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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final – Man of the Match | |
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