As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, O'Gorman never won a Railway Cup medal.
At club level he won several championship medals in all grades with Milford, while he also line dout with divisional side Avondhu.
[2] After enjoying championship success in the under-21 grade with Milford, O'Gorman quickly joined the club's top team.
After annexing the North Cork junior championship title, Milford subsequently faced St. Catherine's in the county decider.
[citation needed] Cork retained the provincial title in 1978, with O'Gorman winning a second Munster medal following a narrow 1–14 to 3–6 defeat of Tipperary.
[citation needed] O'Gorman made his senior debut with Cork in a National Hurling League defeat by Tipperary on 18 November 1979.
He was a Munster medallist as a non-playing substitute that year, however, Cork were subsequently defeated by Kilkenny in the All-Ireland decider.
[6] O'Gorman failed to make the match day panel for Cork's subsequent All-Ireland final defeat of Offaly.
In 1985 O'Gorman added a fourth successive Munster medal as a non-playing substitute to his collection as Cork defeated Tipperary by 4–17 to 4–11 in the provincial decider once again.
After being dropped from the panel in 1986, O'Gorman made his championship debut on 28 June 1987 in a 3–14 to 0-10 Munster semi-final replay defeat of Limerick.
Galway were once again the red-hot favourites and justified this tag by going seven points ahead in the opening thirty-five minutes thanks to a masterful display by Joe Cooney.
The game was effectively decided on an incident which occurred midway through the second half when Cork goalkeeper Ger Cunningham blocked a point-blank shot from Martin Naughton with his nose.
At half-time Cork were two points ahead, however, two second-half goals by John Power and Michael "Titch" Phelan supplemented a first-half D. J. Carey penalty which gave Kilkenny a 3–10 to 1–12 victory.
In 1993 and 1994 O'Gorman was a regular member of the starting fifteen, however, Munster's campaign in both years ended at the semi-final stage.