Enda's job title of Athletics Academy Director fails to fully encompass the role he perfected of being coach, go-between, confidante, advisor, fundraiser, event organiser, friend, mentor and role model to so many student-athletes in DCU.  Enda has done the job so well over the last decade and a half that it's fair to say he is both invaluable and irreplaceable. 

Enda’s contribution to Dublin City University extends outside the athletics world- he has acted not only as a coach, but a friend, father and mentor. He was and is the person who got me to where I am today and to whom I will always be grateful.

I don't think I would have had such a rounded experience at any other university and that is credit to the environment created here by Enda Fitzpatrick, so for that, thank you

 The news of the termination of Enda’s contract in DCU is absolutely devastating and is a source of huge anxiety about not just my future athletics career, but the future of my training group and DCU athletics as a whole.

Without Enda, we will lose the attraction and reputation of the best Universities Athletic club that Ireland has to offer. 

I cannot comprehend how a man of such class, stature and vision is being taken out of a position where he is so much needed.