Never Better av Tommie (author) Gorman

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<p>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 <i>Western Journal</i>, where his deadlines were dependent on the bus schedule, Tommie landed at RT¿ 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<br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 h