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{{Short description|Derry Gaelic football goalkeeper}}
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{{Infobox GAA player 
| image           =
| name            = Barry Gillis
| nickname        =
| feet            = 6
| inches          = 1
| occupation      = Service engineer<ref name="profiles">{{cite web |url=http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=666&Itemid=184 |title=Derry player profiles 2008 |accessdate=3 January 2009 |work=Official Derry GAA website |year=2008 }}</ref> postman,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=666&Itemid=184 |title=Derry player profiles 2008 |accessdate=3 January 2009 |work=Official Derry GAA website |year=2008 }}</ref> <br> car wash owner and <br> a postman working from Magherafelt
| sport           = Gaelic football
| code            = Football
| county          = Derry
| province        = Ulster
| clposition      = Full forward
| club            = [[Magherafelt GAC|Magherafelt]]
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| clapps(points)  =
| clcounty        =
| clprovince      =
| clallireland    =
| counties        = [[Derry county football team|Derry]]
| icposition      = Goalkeeper
| icyears         = 199x–
| icapps(points)  =
| icprovince      =
| icallireland    =
| nfl             = 2
| allstars        =
| icupdate        =
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| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1980|1|12}}
| birth_place     = [[Magherafelt]], <br>[[County Londonderry]], Northern Ireland
}}
'''Barry Gillis''' (born 12 January 1980)<ref name="profiles"/> is a [[Gaelic football]]er who plays for the [[Derry county football team|Derry county team]], with whom he has won the [[National Football League (Ireland)|National League]] twice. He plays his club football for [[Magherafelt GAC|Magherafelt O'Donovan Rossa]].

Gillis plays [[Gaelic football and Hurling positions#Full Forward|full forward]] for Magherafelt, but plays as [[Gaelic football and Hurling positions#Goalkeeper|goalkeeper]] for Derry.<ref name="kerry_litmus_test">{{cite news |first=Alan |last=Rodgers |title=Kerry litmus test |work=[[Gaelic Life]] |date=29 February 2008 }}</ref> He is in the unique position of winning a National League medal as an outfielder (2000), and another National League medal as goalkeeper ([[2008 National Football League (Ireland)|2008]]).<ref name="HS">{{Cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=105182 |title=Derry need to make a championship mark says Gillis |accessdate=3 January 2009 |work=[[Hogan Stand]] |publisher=Lynn Publications |date=2 January 2009 }}</ref>

==Playing career==
===Inter-county===
Gillis was originally called up to the Derry [[List of Gaelic Games terminology#P|panel]] as an outfielder in the late 1990s<ref name="kerry_litmus_test"/> and was on the panel for Derry's 2000 [[National Football League (Ireland)|National League]] success.<ref name="kerry_litmus_test"/><ref name="hoganstand">{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/derry-record-intact-after-a-dour-struggle-392019.html |title=Derry record intact after a dour struggle|work=[[Irish Independent]]|date= 29 November 1999|accessdate=16 March 2008}}</ref> Gillis was part of the panel when Derry reached that year's [[Ulster Senior Football Championship]] final, but were defeated by [[Armagh county football team|Armagh]].<ref name="HS"/> He pulled out of the panel for a couple of seasons in the 2000s as he was working in [[Dublin]], but returned again.<ref name="kerry_litmus_test"/>

He was part of the Derry team that won the [[2008 National Football League (Ireland)|2008 National League]] where Derry beat [[Kerry county football team|Kerry]] in the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2008/0427/derrykerry.html |title=Derry 2–13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report |accessdate=27 April 2008 |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430222703/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2008/0427/derrykerry.html |archivedate=30 April 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=630&Itemid=56 |title=Derry 2–13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report – Derry GAA website |accessdate=27 April 2008 |work=Derry GAA website }}</ref>

==Honours==
===County===
*'''[[National Football League (Ireland)|National Football League]]:'''
**'''Winner (2):''' 2000, [[2008 National Football League (Ireland) |2008]]
*'''[[Ulster Senior Football Championship]]:'''
**Runner up: 2000
*'''[[Dr McKenna Cup]]:'''
**Runner up: 2005,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://derry.gaa.ie/Football/team_news.htm |title=Derry line-ups 2005 |work=Derry GAA website |accessdate=2 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719145748/http://derry.gaa.ie/Football/team_news.htm |archivedate=19 July 2008 }}</ref> 2008, more?

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

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=105182 ''Hogan Stand'' article on Gillis (January 2009)]
*[http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=666&Itemid=184 Player profiles on Official Derry GAA website]

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[[Category:1980 births]]
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