Tommie Gorman: Never Better: My Life in Our Times [2022] hardback Condition:Very Good what it was like to

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Without even sign language in common - their parents have not bothered to teach them - family communications are chaotic and rife with misinterpretations

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Tommie Gorman: Never Better: My Life in Our Times [2022] hardback Condition:Very Good what it was like to'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 RTE, taking up the post of North West correspondent in 1980. Over the next four decades he became a