Business of winning a job this man takes very seriously

Slightly paraphrased, Jimmy Rabbitte’s immortal quote from The Commitments describes Pat Gilroy’s club.

Proud and passionate, “militantly Marino” as club member Tom Humphries once put it, they’re clannish too, embodying the cloaking spirit Kevin Heffernan brought to them and Dublin.

Gilroy, a godson of Heffernan, has brought some of that attitude to his position.