[2] He took a year of leave of absence from RTÉ to pursue a project centered on digital media and global journalism.
During college, he served as president of the Students' Union for a year, and was a member of the Labour Party.
He was then hired as a TV reporter for RTÉ News and Current Affairs in 1991,[8] after answering a newspaper advertisement.
[11] In 2001 he won TV Journalist of the Year in the ESB National Media Awards.
He has also reported from disaster and conflict areas such as, Iraq, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
[15][16] In 2002, he joined RTÉ's flagship current affairs programme Prime Time, which he co-presented with Miriam O'Callaghan.
[7] As of December 2009, Little was married to Tara Peterman, an American who worked with him on Prime Time, they had two children, Daisy and Tommy, and lived in Dalkey, County Dublin.