People of the Year in 2003 and in the same year he was also awarded the James Larkin Justice Award by the Labour Party for his contribution to social justice in Ireland. In 2006 O'Gorman presented Sex Crimes and the Vatican for the BBC Panorama documentary series, which claimed that the Vatican has used Crimen sollicitationis secret document to silence allegations of sexual abuse by priests and also claimed Crimen sollicitationis was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI. In 2020, O'Gorman was interviewed as part of the Australian documentary series Revelation. Political career In April 2006, he announced that he would stand for the Progressive Democrats, a pro-free market liberal political party, in the 2007 general election in the Wexford constituency. On 3 May 2007, he was appointed to the Seanad by the Taoiseach to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Kate Walsh. He was not elected in the 2007 general election in Wexford polling 3% of the vote. He was not re-appointed to the 23rd Seanad in July 2007. Amnesty International O'Gorman is the executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, and often appears in the media to talk or write about human rights in Ireland and around the world. He and Amnesty have called for an update to Ireland's hate-crime legislation, stating that freedom of expression does not extend to hate crime and that Irish people need to accept that "it is not enough to be anti-racist but that there is a need to be actively anti-racist." References External links Official Colm O'Gorman site One In Four official site One In Four UK Apology and settlement from the Church Telegraph interview with O'Gorman 1966 births Living people People from Gorey Activists for victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church Amnesty International people Gay politicians LGBT legislators in Ireland Members of the 22nd Seanad Progressive Democrats senators Nominated members of Seanad Éireann Irish abortion-rights activists 21st-century LGBT people