Barry Gillis

Barry Gillis
Personal information
Irish name Barra Mac Giolla Íosa
Sport Gaelic football
Position Goalkeeper
Born 12 January 1980 (1980-01-12) (age 32)
Magherafelt,
County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Occupation Service engineer[1] / car wash owner
Club(s)
Years Club
?-Present Magherafelt
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
199x-Present Derry
Inter-county titles
NFL 2

Barry Gillis (Irish: Barra Mac Giolla Íosa; born 12 January 1980[1]) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry, with whom he has won the National League twice. He plays his club football for Magherafelt O'Donovan Rossa.

Gillis plays full forward for Magherafelt, but plays as goalkeeper for Derry.[2] He is in the unique position of winning a National League medal as an outfielder (2000), and another National League medal as goalkeeper (2008).[3]

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Playing career

Inter-county

Gillis was originally called up to the Derry panel as an outfielder in the late 1990s[2] and was on the panel for Derry's 2000 National League success.[2][4] Gillis was part of the panel when Derry reached that year's Ulster Senior Football Championship final, but were defeated by Armagh.[3] He pulled out of the panel for a couple of seasons in the 2000s as he was working in Dublin, but returned again.[2]

He was part of the Derry team that won the 2008 National League where Derry beat Kerry in the final.[5][6]

Club

Gillis usually plays full forward for Magherafelt and often takes frees for them.

Honours

County

Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of. works/owns a car wash that is 2nd to none on the station road of magherafelt.

References

  1. ^ a b "Derry player profiles 2008". Official Derry GAA website. Early 2008. http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=666&Itemid=184. Retrieved 3 January 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c d Rodgers, Alan (29 February 2008). "Kerry litmus test". Gaelic Life. 
  3. ^ a b "Derry need to make a championship mark says Gillis". Hogan Stand. Lynn Publications. 2 January 2009. http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=105182. Retrieved 3 January 2009. 
  4. ^ "Derry record intact after a dour struggle". Irish Independent. 29 November 1999. http://www.independent.ie/sport/derry-record-intact-after-a-dour-struggle-392019.html. Retrieved 2008-03-16. 
  5. ^ "Derry 2-13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report". RTÉ Online. http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2008/0427/derrykerry.html. Retrieved 27 April 2008. 
  6. ^ "Derry 2-13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report - Derry GAA website". Derry GAA website. http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=630&Itemid=56. Retrieved 27 April 2008. 
  7. ^ "Derry line-ups 2005". Derry GAA website. http://derry.gaa.ie/Football/team_news.htm. Retrieved 2 April 2008. 

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