Nolan won a
Sigerson Cup with
DCU. 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. He was part of the half-back line with
James McCarthy and
Ger Brennan, and also scored during the final. However, injury and a medical condition limited his further development as a player.
Jim Gavin called time on Nolan's inter-county career by omitting him from the Dublin panel before the start of the
2015 Championship. ==International rules==