The Big Interview: For Tommie Gorman, sport and politics have always mixed

Tommie Gorman, recently retired RTÉ Northern Editor, carried out perhaps the most famous interview in Irish sporting history, with Roy Keane after Saipan. But sport has always been close to O'Gorman's heart, whether as Mayo manager John O'Mahony's video analyst, following his beloved Sligo Rovers and Spurs, or when his childhood home acted as a makeshift dressing room for Markievicz Park. 

Recently-retired RTÉ Northern Editor, Tommie Gorman, relaxing near his home at Kelltstown, Co Sligo. Picture: James Connolly

Although Tommie Gorman hardly uses a word of profanity over the three hours, his outlook could be described to be similar to Adam Clayton’s: while there are people who say you shouldn’t mix sport or music with politics, he himself thinks that’s kind of bullshit.

All through his career and indeed life, sport and politics have been intertwined. In almost every gig he’s had, at almost every juncture he’s been.