Trevor Giles

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Trevor Giles
Personal information
Irish name Trevor Mac Goill
Sport Gaelic football
Position Half forward
Born Skryne, County Meath
Club(s)
YearsClub
Skryne
Club titles
Meath titles 4
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCountyApps (scores)
1994-2005
Meath 47, (6-140)
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 3
All-Irelands 2
NFL 1
All Stars 3

Trevor Giles is an Irish former Gaelic footballer for the Meath county team. [1] Regarded as one of the best players of his generation, he plays club football for Skryne.

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He came to prominence first when he won an All Ireland minor medal with Meath in 1992. In 1993 he moved on to the Under 21 team and won an All Ireland title coming on as a sub in the final. He would go on to win 2 All Ireland Senior medals, 3 Leinster Senior Football Championship medals & 1 National League Medals. He usually played in the half forward line for Meath. Trevor has won 3 All Star awards and was chosen as the All Stars Footballer of the Year in 1996 and 1999 [2] (as of 2019 still the only player to accomplish this feat) and Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1999. Trevor had to deal with some injury setbacks in his football career, playing against Kildare in the 1998 Leinster final loss he ruptured his cruciate knee ligament, a serious injury which kept him out of the game for many months, but he returned in 1999 to have probably his best season of his playing career. In 2001 Meath made the All Ireland final but were well beaten by Galway. Since the 2005 season Trevor has not made himself available for selection for the Meath panel. He was said to have taken inspiration from the Kildare footballer Johnny Doyle.

Trevor represented Ireland in many of the annual International rules series against Australia. Trevor is a cousin of another Meath footballer Mick Lyons.

For his club Skryne he usually played at Center Half back, with whom he has won 4Meath Senior Football Championship Titles.

He was a selector when clubmate Mick O'Dowd managed Meath. [3]

In May 2020, the Irish Independent named Giles at number seventeen in its "Top 20 footballers in Ireland over the past 50 years". [4]

Career statistics

TeamSeason Leinster All-Ireland Total
AppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScore
Meath 1994 30-0800-0030-08
1995 30-0600-0030-06
1996 31-1431-1362-27
1997 52-2000-0052-20
1998 30-0900-0030-09
1999 30-1020-0950-19
2000 10-0500-0010-05
2001 31-1440-0771-21
2002 20-0730-0650-13
2003 31-0620-0451-10
2004 20-0210-0130-03
2005 00-0000-0000-00
Total315-101151-40466-141

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References

  1. Boyle, Donnchadh (27 June 2014). "Old Meath master plotting a real Royal revolution". Irish Independent.
  2. Keys, Colm (20 July 2012). "Meath legend Giles wary Royal revival may be false dawn". Irish Independent.
  3. "O'Dowd ratified as Meath boss". Irish Examiner . 9 October 2012.
  4. Breheny, Martin (30 May 2020). "Revealed: The Top 20 footballers in Ireland over the past 50 years". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media . Retrieved 30 May 2020.
Preceded by All Stars Footballer of the Year
1996
Succeeded by
Preceded by Texaco Footballer of the Year
1999
Succeeded by
Preceded by All Stars Footballer of the Year
1999
Succeeded by