Former Dublin defender Paddy Christie says the appointment of Pat Gilroy to Dessie Farrell’s backroom team ahead of next season is “an interesting one”.

Gilroy, who led the Dubs to a breakthrough All-Ireland SFC success in 2011, has since went on to manage the county’s senior hurlers for a season and will now work under Farrell next year.

Speaking to The42.ie, Longford and DCU manager Christie expects Gilroy will be “a massive addition for Dublin”.

“I don’t know what Pat was like as a manager,” he said. “But from things that I’ve heard him say or people in Vincent’s talking about him, he seems to be an organiser or a delegator, he’s quite thorough in his approach with things and he brings a lot of business management style stuff into football.

“I’m not sure how much of a tactician he is. He was on the Dublin panel when I came in, near the end of [his career]. I wouldn’t have ever really got to know him. But I’m sure he knows his stuff. But I’d say it’s more to do with the overall off-the-pitch stuff.

“Even his connections and his networking that he’d have there. He’d have an awful lot of contacts around the place. He was heavily involved in organising that DCU base where Dublin train, in St Clare’s and I think he put a lot of that in place and did a really good job. Things that he’s involved with, he seems to do very well.”

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