David Hanly

{{short description|Irish broadcaster, journalist and writer}}

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| birth_place = Limerick, Ireland

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| employer = Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Bórd Fáilte
Sunday Tribune

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David Hanly (born 1944, Fairgreen, Limerick){{VIAF|55406083}}{{cite news |title=Concentrating Citizens' Minds |url=https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Hanly001.pdf |first=David |authorlink=David Hanly |last=Hanly |date=12 November 1989 |work=Limerick Tribune |via=LimerickCity.ie}} is an Irish writer and former broadcaster.{{cite book |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201145944/http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Hanly002.pdf |title= |archive-date=2014-02-01 |section=Hanley, David |url=http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Hanly002.pdf |via=LimerickCity.ie|url-status=live }} He was a co-presenter of RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland for many years.{{cite news |date=9 November 2009 |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/news/no-party-for-morning-irelands-25th-27930983.html|title=No party for Morning Ireland's 25th|author=Cormac Murphy |work=Evening Herald|access-date=2022-06-20|via=Independent.ie}}{{Cite web |url=https://memorylanelimerick.com/p584747114/h6E10E8F |title=Book 6 | Mattersons|website=Old Photographs of Limerick, Ireland}}{{cite news |title=Morning Becomes David |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=21 April 1994 |first=Eileen |last=Battersby |url=http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Hanly003.pdf |via=LimerickCity.ie}} He won a Jacob's Award in 1985.{{cite news |title=Limerickman Hanly leads call for new arts centre |first=Alan |last=Jacques |date=17 November 2001 |work= |url=https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Hanly004.pdf |via=LimerickCity.ie}} His television show Hanly's People featured in-depth interviews with people such as Seán Boylan and David Norris.{{Cite episode|url=https://www.rte.ie//archives/2017/0519/876446-academic-and-gay-rights-campaigner-david-norris/|title=David Norris|series=Hanly's People|via=RTÉ Archives|year=1987}}

As a writer, Hanly wrote for serial dramas The Kennedys of Castleross, and The Riordans. His novel In Guilt and in Glory was first published in 1979.

In 2001, Hanly campaigned for the establishment of an arts centre on Arthur's Quay, Limerick city.{{cite news |title=Hanly backs campaign for arts and trade centre |first=Jessica |last=Quinn |date=26 November 2001 |work=Limerick Leader |url=https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Hanly005.pdf |via=LimerickCity.ie}}

David's brother Mick was a singer-songwriter known for Past the Point of Rescue (song), and the brothers sometimes performed together.{{Cite web |year=1994 |publisher=RTÉ Archives |url=https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2295/091.html|title=David and Mick Hanly on 'A Family Christmas' |via=RTE.ie}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriman.ie/en/samhradh/2010s/|title=The Cumann Merriman Summer School 2010 – Cumann Merriman}}