Vincent Hanley

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Hanley's family home on Kickham Street, Clonmel; a plaque in his memory was unveiled in 2013[1]

Vincent Hanley (2 April 1954 – 18 April 1987)[2] was an Irish radio DJ and television presenter, nicknamed "Fab Vinny".[3] He worked mainly for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, and was the first Irish celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness.[4][5] He has been described as "Ireland's first gay celebrity".[6]

Hanley began presenting pop music shows on RTÉ Radio Cork in 1976. He also did stints in Dublin on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ television,[7] including a special on Gilbert O'Sullivan.[8] When the first dedicated pop station, RTÉ Radio Two (now branded 2FM), was started in 1979, he was one of its best-known DJs.[9][10] While in Dublin he shared accommodation with Charles Self.[11] In 1981, he moved to London to work for Capital Radio.[4] In 1984, he declined a lucrative offer to remain there and moved to New York City.[4]

Hanley founded Green Apple Productions in 1983 with Conor McAnally, an RTÉ television producer and son of actor Ray McAnally. The company produced MT-USA (Music Television USA), a three-hour-long music video show modelled on the new American cable channel, MTV.[7] MT-USA was broadcast on RTÉ from 1984 to 1987 on Sunday afternoons. Each block of videos was followed by a segment filmed in New York City with Hanley introducing the videos, discussing American music and culture, and interviewing a celebrity.[7] RTÉ described him as Europe's first VJ (video jockey).[4]

In 1987, Hanley died shortly after his 33rd birthday.[2] He had been visibly ill for some time, and was rumoured to have an AIDS-related illness, which he denied.[12] This reflected the stigma then associated with the disease and with homosexuality in Ireland, which was not decriminalised until 1993.[13] The illness admitted by Hanley was congenital cerebral toxoplasmosis, described as an "eye disorder"; he was blind in one eye by his death.[10] Toxoplasmosis is very rarely fatal in adults who do not have a weakened immune system. In 2000, Hanley's friend and colleague Bill Hughes, who had himself come out in the 1990s, agreed that Hanley had in fact died of an AIDS-related illness.[13] The same year, the Sunday Tribune newspaper placed Hanley at the top of a list of Irish gay icons.[4]

In February 2022, RTÉ aired a new documentary about Hanley, titled Vincent Hanley: Sex, Lies and Videotapes.[14][15]

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