Barry Gillis

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Barry Gillis
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Position Goalkeeper
Born (1980-01-12) 12 January 1980 (age 43)
Magherafelt,
County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Occupation Service engineer [1] postman, [2]
car wash owner and
a postman working from Magherafelt
Club(s)
YearsClub
Magherafelt
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
199x–
Derry
Inter-county titles
NFL 2

Barry Gillis (born 12 January 1980) [1] is a Gaelic footballer who plays for the Derry county team, with whom he has won the National League twice. He plays his club football for Magherafelt O'Donovan Rossa.

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Gillis plays full forward for Magherafelt, but plays as goalkeeper for Derry. [3] He is in the unique position of winning a National League medal as an outfielder (2000), and another National League medal as goalkeeper (2008). [4]

Playing career

Inter-county

Gillis was originally called up to the Derry panel as an outfielder in the late 1990s [3] and was on the panel for Derry's 2000 National League success. [3] [5] Gillis was part of the panel when Derry reached that year's Ulster Senior Football Championship final, but were defeated by Armagh. [4] He pulled out of the panel for a couple of seasons in the 2000s as he was working in Dublin, but returned again. [3]

He was part of the Derry team that won the 2008 National League where Derry beat Kerry in the final. [6] [7]

Honours

County

Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Derry player profiles 2008". Official Derry GAA website. 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  2. "Derry player profiles 2008". Official Derry GAA website. 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Rodgers, Alan (29 February 2008). "Kerry litmus test". Gaelic Life .
  4. 1 2 "Derry need to make a championship mark says Gillis". Hogan Stand . Lynn Publications. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  5. "Derry record intact after a dour struggle". Irish Independent . 29 November 1999. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  6. "Derry 2–13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  7. "Derry 2–13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report – Derry GAA website". Derry GAA website. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  8. "Derry line-ups 2005". Derry GAA website. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008.