Never Better
eBook - ePub

Never Better

My Life in Our Times

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Never Better

My Life in Our Times

About this book

The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman. When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his 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 readers 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Beginnings
  6. 1 Sligo: early years
  7. 2 The first job
  8. 3 The north-west years
  9. 4 Brussels
  10. 5 Power and loss
  11. 6 Living with cancer
  12. 7 Love, sport and the Roy Keane interview
  13. 8 Belfast
  14. 9 Compromise and power
  15. 10 The Queen and the changing of the guard
  16. 11 Brexit
  17. 12 The journey made and the road ahead
  18. Bonus years
  19. Acknowledgements
  20. Plates Section
  21. Index