Will Hanrahan

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Will Hanrahan is a former BBC news and features presenter (Watchdog, Good Morning). Particularly notable for reporting from the Rwandan Civil War. His live coverage of life in a refugee camp in Goma in modern-day Congo led to a Royal Television Society nomination. Currently Hanrahan runs his own Independent TV company in Britain [http://www.hanrahanmedia.tv producing an eclectix mix of programmes, factual entertainment shows for ITV and Sky one (Star Lives, SuDoKu Live, Vorderman's Brain Game) and documentaries for ITV and Channel five. Hanrahan himself has most recently produced a documentary marking the 10th anniversary of the Dublane massacre. Born in Netherton on Merseyside and schooled at St. Benet's and St. Mary's College in Crosby, Hanrahan is believed to be a distant descendant of the Irish Republican poet and author Michael Hanrahan who was executed by the British in 1916.