Examine Yourself: Getting cancer made sense of everything for Tommie Gorman

RTÉ reporter Tommie Gorman’s diagnosis in 1994 radically shifted his outlook. He would now have to manage his disease and living fully was the way to do that, says Ciara McDonnell.

In January of 1994, RTÉ reporter Tommie Gorman was given a diagnosis that would change his life. “I was working in Brussels at the time and had been home for Christmas,” says RTÉ’s northern editor.