Former RTÉ reporter was ‘without doubt, a great talker’ and ‘walked with great nobility among us’
Sligo Rovers players line up as the coffin of veteran RTÉ journalist Tommie Gorman is carried into in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Ransboro, Co Sligo for his funeral on Saturday. Photograph: PA Wireloved funerals. He took funeral attendance “to a level of high art. I can imagine him coming home from this and saying jeez, it was great, full to the rafters. Kieran and Sinéad were incredible on the music. Fr Christy was on fire.
Irish renters living in fear: ‘We can’t get mortgages, even though I’ve been paying rent for 12 years’ His great phrase was “what is life, but love and sport? And in sport, as in love, the imperfections are the most beautiful thing of all. He wrote that Rovers are the perfect fit for Sligo because of the flaws. We are never the finished article.”Gorman believed, “not just in some religious sense”, and he “loved people who believed”, people like journalists John Healy, Tom Lyons, and Ian Kehoe who set up their own publications.
Quoting a friend of his own Fr McCrann said that one of Gorman’s qualities was “the sacrament of friendship.” Each person “was special and unique to him and he managed, like St Paul, to ‘become all things to all people’. ”
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