Will Hanafin

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|alma_mater = Dublin City University
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|birth_place = Youghal, County Cork

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|spouse = Mary Kirwan

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William Hanafin is an Irish journalist, researcher, television producer and radio presenter from Youghal, County Cork.

Hanafin was a print journalist with the Irish Examiner before working as a researcher on The Late Late Show. He spent the final year of Gay Byrne's tenure and the first four years of Pat Kenny's tenure working on The Late Late Show.{{cite news|first=Will|last=Hanafin|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/is-it-too-late--to-save-the--late-late-1698141.html|title=Is it too late to save the Late Late?|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=4 April 2009|accessdate=5 April 2009}} He also trained as a television producer with state broadcaster RTÉ, obtained a degree in zoology and is a qualified barrister. His writing can be read in the Sunday Independent.{{cite news|first=Will|last=Hanafin|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/professor-bertie-is-just-the-business-1965686.html|title=Professor Bertie is just the business|newspaper=Sunday Independent|date=6 December 2009|accessdate=11 December 2009}}{{cite news|first=Will|last=Hanafin|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/lost-cusack-has-found-a-winner-1924055.html|title=Lost Cusack has found a winner|newspaper=Sunday Independent|date=25 October 2009|accessdate=11 December 2009}}

A feature on The Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM, largely in the background offering advice to listeners but sometimes presenting the show by himself, he has been with Today FM for four years and presented his own segment, "Where there's Will... There's a way!", on the difficulties listeners encounter in removing awkward stains.{{cite web|url=http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Ray-DArcy-Show/wherethereswilltheresaway.aspx|title=Where there's Will... There's a way!!|work=Today FM|accessdate=7 January 2009}} On several occasions he has provoked talking points on the airwaves, such as the time he failed his third driving test and the occasion he broke his knee and had to have surgery or his numerous articles.O'Mahony, Claire and Freyne, Patrick. (12 October 2008). "The Desk Job" - Tribune Magazine. p. 22. [http://www.tribune.ie/article/2008/oct/12/the-desk-job/ Online link]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Retrieved 24 January 2010. In addition, he was famously questioned by the Guards in 2009 over nude portraits of the Taoiseach, initially declining to co-operate and later describing the entire affair as "crazy".{{cite news|first=Caroline|last=O'Doherty|url=http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/idqlqleysn/|title=Today FM producer brands reaction 'crazy'|newspaper=Irish Examiner|date=18 June 2008|accessdate=17 May 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302224032/http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/idqlqleysn/|archivedate=2 March 2015}}

Writer of De Little Book of Bertie about former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern,{{cite news|url=http://shopping.todayfm.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=2069|title=TDFM026 De Little Book of Bertie by Will Hanafin|work=Today FM|accessdate=11 December 2009}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} this was the first book dedicated to Bertiespeak.{{cite news|first=Seán|last=McCárthaigh|url=http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2001/08/13/story10134.asp|title=Unravelling the many mysteries of Bertiespeak|newspaper=Irish Examiner|date=13 August 2001|accessdate=11 December 2009}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}