Tommie Gorman's curiosity, kindness and love for life remembered

Sligo Rovers players line up as the coffin of Tommie Gorman is carried into in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Ransboro, Co Sligo. Picture: PA Wire

Under brilliant blue skies at Our Lady of the Sea Church in Ransboro, Co Sligo on Saturday afternoon, Joe Gorman delivered a eulogy for his late father Tommie that was amongst the finest I have ever heard. 

Equal parts funny, moving, generous and loyal, Mr. Gorman captured the essence of man beloved by so many in the journalism and broadcasting community and beyond. There are not many eulogies that include such direct references to Roy Keane, the Reverand Ian Paisley and Gorman’s beloved Sligo Rovers, but such was the breath of Tommie Gorman’s canon that nobody was surprised to hear such names mentioned in the telling of his life’s story.