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Never Better

My Life in Our Times

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Never Better

By: Tommie Gorman
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'Money is handy for doing messages' was a phrase the young Tommie Gorman heard from his father, growing up in Sligo in the 1960s. Struggle was never far away but their household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter at the Western Journal, where his deadlines were dependent on the bus schedule, Tommie landed at RTÉ, taking up the post of North-West correspondent in 1980. Over the next four decades he became a familiar presence in Irish homes, known for his coverage of Europe and Northern Ireland, as well as his unforgettable interviews with controversial figures including Gerry Adams, Roy Keane, Ian Paisley and Arlene Foster. While revelling in his life as a journalist, he was also coping with the cancer diagnosis he received in 1994 and seeking ways to access life-saving treatments for patients who shared his rare form of the disease.

In this insightful and generous book, Tommie takes listeners behind the scenes and shares some of his memories from Sligo to Stormont, via Brussels and Sweden, as he recounts forty extraordinary years of Irish history from his front-row seat and looks at what may lie ahead for the island.

©2022 Tommie Gorman (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd
Ireland Journalists, Editors & Publishers
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insightful beyond believe

This book brings the reader on a journey from the lane ways of the West of Ireland, to the corridors of power in Brussels and on to the troubled streets of Northern Ireland and then, back to the West of Ireland.
He writes a frank account of his battle with cancer.
The reader also meets many household names, at least in Ireland.

The one sad note I strike, Tommy Gorman died too soon and didn't not live to see the emergence of a new UK government and the opportunity to reset the relationship with his beloved Ireland. RIP Tommy Gorman.

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