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Trevor Welch

Sportscaster

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ16958056 ↗
Source-derived summary

Trevor Welch is an Irish sports commentator who worked for TV3 from 1998 until 2012.

He covered TV3's live coverage of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League and up to April 2012 he was the regular presenter of the sports news on TV3 News. From 1998 until 2009 he was the main presenter of nightly sports programme Sports Tonight until it was cancelled due to budget cuts.

Welch also hosted sports gameshow A Game of Two Halves which broadcast for one series in 1999 and League of Ireland highlights show Eircom League Weekly from 2002 to 2007.

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“Trevor Welch” enters the record as sportscaster. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Trevor, Welch and Sportscaster can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2012, 2009, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Trevor, Welch and Sportscaster.
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This entry incorporates text from “Trevor Welch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.