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.
Further along the Black Sea from Ukraine is Georgia, which was itself invaded by Russia in 2008, and twenty percent of which is still under Russian military occupation. Protesters have gathered there tonight to rally against a so-called “foreign agents” bill. Last night, despite heavy rain, tens of thousands marched peacefully though Tbilisi against the…
Vladimir Putin has used Russia’s annual Victory Day to accuse “arrogant” Western elites of forgetting the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany.
24 hours ago Palestinians were celebrating the news that Hamas had accepted what they thought was Israel’s ceasefire proposal.
In Dublin, police have moved in to clear a tent encampment set up by asylum seekers.
Some of the missing asylum seekers we heard about earlier could be in Ireland, where politicians have raised questions over the number of people arriving from the UK to avoid deportation to Rwanda.
The war of words has intensified between the UK and Irish governments over the possible effects of the Rwanda policy.
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…