Paraic O'Brien is a Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Paraic's investigations include the multi-award winning "Bruce Lee, King of Romania's Sewers", a searing film about the subterranean life of Bucharest's drug addicts. His expose of how the global online game Habbo Hotel was putting children at risk, resulted in a mass exodus of investors. His investigation into the death of Alois Dvorzac in a British detention centre exposed serious flaws in the immigration system.
He was the first TV reporter on the ground in Brixton and Croydon as the riots broke out in 2011. He also once had a minor altercation with Russell Brand.
Before joining Channel 4 News he worked at the BBC as an investigations reporter for BBC London News and Newsnight on occasion. Prior to that he was a community worker in Ireland and south London.
How did Israel manage to fend off Iran’s unprecedented attack so comprehensively?
Israel’s military says it will make the report into why it killed seven aid workers public very soon.
Three British nationals have been killed by an Israeli air strike as they were working to deliver food aid in Gaza.
With intensive fighting continuing around the al-Shifa hospital in central Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry reported today that almost 32,500 Palestinians have died since the Israeli military offensive began last October.
Vladimir Putin has accepted that radical Islamists were behind the attack on Friday that killed 137 people at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, but he has also said the shooting was linked to a wider campaign against Russia by Ukraine, something strongly denied by Kyiv.
Israeli troops have been raiding Al Shifa Hospital since Monday, targeting militants they claim are inside the hospital – something Hamas has repeatedly denied. We reported earlier in the week on teenager Rafiq and his younger sister Rafif. They, along with hundreds of Palestinians are in critical condition and still trapped inside the hospital, too…
Gunmen have stormed a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow and opened fire with automatic weapons. Multiple casualties have been reported.
In Gaza, the Israeli attack on the Al Shifa hospital has entered its fourth day – as the IDF once again says it is clearing Hamas militants from the complex it first occupied in November. Civilians who have fled the latest operation said they were surrounded by fierce fighting, and that they witnessed the IDF…
When proposed changes to the Irish constitution were comprehensively rejected in a referendum earlier this month, it was damaging for the Prime Minister Leo Varadkar who had backedthem. But few expected him to resign, at least not so quickly. Yet this morning, the media were alerted to a midday announcement. And then the man who…
In Haiti, gang violence has spread to previously safe parts of the capital. Residents in affluent parts of Port au Prince woke up to find bodies on the streets. Last week the escalating violence in the Caribbean country forced the resignation of the prime minister Ariel Henry, who had been trying to organise the deployment…
The European Council President has congratulated Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory, as voting gets underway in Russia’s presidential elections.
Ireland’s Taoiseach has used a speech to the Irish diaspora in the US, to highlight that St Patrick – who is celebrated every March 17th – was a ‘single, male, undocumented migrant’. Immigration protests have become a major thorn in Leo Varadker’s side, dominating politics in cities, towns and villages.
In the West Bank tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been a fact of life for decades.
President Biden says the sanctions against Russia are in response to “aggression abroad and repression at home.”
Alexei Navalny’s mother has said she’s been shown his body, and accused authorities of planning a ‘secret’ funeral for her son.