Boost for Longford as Barden commits for 15th season

Paul Barden has committed to a 15th season in the Longford shirt.

Manager Jack Sheedy is currently planning without midfielder John Keegan, who has taken a break from the game, and wing back Shane Mulligan, who was due to be married yesterday, but the country’s joint longest serving footballer Barden has indicated he will continue for one more campaign.

Along with Limerick’s John Galvin, Barden is the last remaining player in the country to play inter-county championship football in the 1990s, and according to Sheedy, the Clonguish man will return to the fold before the end of January.