Tommie Gorman

Tommie Gorman
Born	1956 (age 60–61) County Sligo, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Education	Summerhill College College of Journalism, Rathmines
Occupation	Journalist
Notable credit(s)	RTÉ News and Current Affairs (1980 – present) Europe Editor (1989 – 2001) Northern Editor (2001 – present) European of the Year (2001)

Tommie Gorman (born 1956) is an Irish journalist. He has worked for RTÉ News and Current Affairs since 1980. He is currently the Northern Ireland editor for RTÉ.

He is known for his personal interviews with figures such as Seán Quinn, Gerry Adams and Roy Keane, the latter following the 2002 Saipan incident.

Gorman was born in County Sligo. He was educated in Summerhill College. In County Dublin he studied in the College of Journalism, Rathmines.

At the end of 2001 he announced on RTÉ Television he had cancer for eight years.

He began his journalistic work with the Western Journal, based in County Mayo. He joined RTÉ in 1980 and became North-West correspondent. In 1989, he moved to Brussels to become Europe Editor. He was made Northern Editor in 2001.

Gorman has also made several documentaries. Many of these have been on a Northern Ireland topic.

Following the murder of Michaela McAreavey, Gorman went to Mauritius to cover the trial for RTÉ News.

Gorman is known for the 2002 interview with Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane after he quit in the build-up to the 2002 FIFA World Cup during which Gorman begged Keane to return. The interview was broadcast over a half-hour of television on May 27, 2002. It was the top television programme of May 2002, beating even coverage of the country's general election which had been held ten days earlier. Details of the interview were later circulated outside Ireland. Afterwards Gorman said Keane was "deeply emotional".

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