Paraic O'Brien , Correspondent
Paraic O'Brien is a 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.
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Petrol bombs thrown at police as rioting continues in Northern Ireland
The Irish Taoiseach has warned that Northern Ireland must not be plunged back into “that dark place of sectarian murders and political discord” after another night of violence which left 14 police officers hurt. In one incident, a burning car was rammed into a police Land Rover, while petrol bombs and missiles were also hurled…
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Northern Ireland’s leaders call for protests to be cancelled
Politicians in Northern Ireland have called for planned protests and parades to be cancelled as a mark of respect, in the wake of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death.
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Large groups gather in west Belfast amid fears of continuing violence
Paraic O’Brien reports from Stormont.
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Northern Ireland: Emergency talks take place after ‘worst rioting in recent years’
Emergency talks have been taking place in Northern Ireland, after yet another night of violence on a scale which police said they had not seen for decades.
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Children as young as 12 involved in Londonderry disorder, PSNI say
Police in Northern Ireland say children as young as 12 were involved in another night of violence, as officers were attacked with petrol bombs in several predominantly Unionist estates in Londonderry last night. Officers were also attacked in loyalist areas of Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus – in scenes which the force described as “totally unacceptable”. Thirty…
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Metropolitan Police Officer convicted of neo-Nazi group membership
PC Ben Hannam was found guilty of membership of banned far-right extremist group National Action.
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Nine UK citizens sanctioned by China for speaking out about Uighur human rights abuses
Nine UK citizens, including five MPs, who’ve been sanctioned by China after accusing them of human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslims say they’ll “redouble” their campaigning on the issue.
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Priti Patel says new asylum rules will ‘deter illegal entry’ and crack down on traffickers
The home secretary has set out plans to change the asylum system so refugees are assessed on how they arrive in the UK.
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UK imposes sanctions on Chinese officials over Uighur abuses
The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced sanctions against four senior Chinese officials accused of being behind abuses of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, calling it one of the “worst human rights crises of our time”.
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The young Russian TikTokers fighting Putin and risking arrest
Now young Russian activists are using the social media app Tiktok to create videos in support of free speech and rallying the public against the government and its treatment of Alexei Navalny, the anti-Putin, anti-corruption politician and activist. They hope to bring down Putin and are risking it arrest to challenge his regime.
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Denmark offers Syrian refugees money to return home or be put in a deportation centre
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Refugee Convention in 1951, but it has now become the first European nation to tell Syrian refugees that they must return home. The Scandinavian country has declared Damascus and its surrounding areas safe, stripping nearly 100 Syrian refugees of their residencies and putting hundreds more in…
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No indications that vaccine causes blood clots, EU medicines regulator clarifies
Millions have received the Oxford AstraZeneca jab. But despite successful trials and data showing high levels of effectiveness here in the UK, the vaccine has been dogged by public scepticism in Europe.
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Inspectors say Covid outbreak virtually inevitable at barracks housing asylum seekers
A damning report today by prison and borders inspectors has concluded the cramped conditions meant that a large-scale outbreak of Covid was virtually inevitable.
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Revealed: plans for huge cuts in UK overseas aid
Among the proposals under discussion are slashing funds for Syria by 67%, and giving 60% less to Somalia and Congo.
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Home Office accused of treating asylum seekers dangerously after dozens caught Covid in housing
Two former army barracks, Napier and Penally, have been under scrutiny since they opened to asylum seekers last year.
