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Mick Holden
Personal information
Irish name Mícheál Ó hOláin
Sport Gaelic football
Position Full-back
Born (1954-10-03)3 October 1954
Dublin, Ireland
Died 26 July 2007(2007-07-26) (aged 52)
Dublin, Ireland
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Club(s)
Years Club
Cuala
Club titles
Dublin titles 0
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1979-1985
Dublin
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 4
All-Irelands 1
NFL 0
All Stars 0

Mick Holden (3 October 1954 – 26 September 2007) was a Gaelic footballer and hurler for Dublin and Cuala CLG.

Playing career

Holden was on the 1983 All-Ireland winning Dublin side that defeated Galway by a scoreline of 1–10 to 1–8. He also played with the Dublin hurlers and won the Railway Cup with Leinster in 1979. Six years later, he became one of the few players to win the Railway Cup in both codes, when he was a member of the victorious Leinster football panel.[1]

Death

Holden died suddenly on the morning of 26 September 2007.[1]

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