He worked at pirate radio stations while still in school, and after finishing his Leaving Certificate in the late 1980s, at Zhivago Music store.
[3] In 1990 he started work at Radio West, a precursor to Galway Bay FM, where he almost immediately became presenter of the breakfast show;[2] at 20, he was then the youngest full-time radio presenter in Ireland.
[1] He continued working at the station primarily as presenter of the breakfast show until February 2012, when he requested a move to afternoon radio.
[citation needed] In the 1990s, with his then partner, Catherine Tiernan, Norman started Eire Communications, a telecommunications company which was sold in 2002.
[1][2][4] He and his wife have subsequently run Norman Media,[1] and together hosted Galway County Matters for Irish TV from February 2015.