Vincent Leo Martin Hanna was a Northern Irish television journalist known for his coverage of United Kingdom by-elections.
11 Facts About Vincent Hanna
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Vincent Hanna's father, Frank, was a prominent solicitor and a member of the Stormont Parliament.
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Vincent Hanna was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, the Queen's University of Belfast, Harvard University and the London School of Economics.
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Vincent Hanna embraced his new career with an enthusiasm that irritated some of his less committed colleagues.
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Vincent Hanna was recruited by the BBC Current Affairs department in 1973 and became well known for his Newsnight coverage of by-elections.
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At Darlington in March 1983, Vincent Hanna's broadcasts helped to destroy the campaign of SDP candidate Tony Cook, who had been the early favourite to win.
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In 1984, Vincent Hanna's impartiality came into question when he failed to disguise his support for tactical voting in some reports on the Chesterfield by-election of that year.
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Vincent Hanna was an active broadcaster on BBC Radio 5 Live from 1994.
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Vincent Hanna was an active trade unionist in the National Union of Journalists.
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Vincent Hanna led a strike at the BBC in 1985 when the Governors, bowing to Government pressure, suppressed a documentary called Real Lives: At the Edge of the Union which covered the home life of Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein and Gregory Campbell of the Democratic Unionist Party.
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Vincent Hanna died of heart disease in 1997 at the age of 57.