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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Russia Ukraine war: Families mourn loss of tens of thousands in Ukraine
A 21-year-old Russian tank commander was given a life sentence for committing a war crime in a Ukrainian court.
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Ukraine Russia Conflict: Zelenskyy says only diplomacy can end war
In Ukraine there has been intense fighting around the city of Severodonetsk, as Russia stepped up its offensive in the Donbas region. Meanwhile in Kyiv President Zelenskyy warned that peace would only come through negotiations, but the prospect of any agreement remained distant.
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Kharkiv residents finally leave metro station after months
Russian troops have bombarded the eastern city of Severodonetsk today as part of a renewed push in the Donbass.
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Ukraine Russia war: Ukranians retaking control from Russia in Kharkiv
Twelve people have been killed and dozens injured in heavy Russian shell attacks in eastern Ukraine.
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Russia Ukraine conflict: Russian soldier admits killing unarmed 62-year-old civilian
A Russian soldier has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed Ukrainian, in the first war crimes trial of the conflict.
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Ukraine Russia war: Zelenskyy orders soldiers to leave ‘scorched earth’ Mariupol
It’s become a huge symbol of Ukraine’s resistance against Russian invasion, in the midst of a city pulverised. Ukrainian fighters held out in the tunnels deep below the Azovstal steel plant, in Mariupol, under constant bombardment.
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Russia Ukraine conflict: Russia ’deleting Ukraine’ from school books to be used in occupied areas
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine it’s been trying to rewrite the country’s history – to deny Ukraine’s existence as a separate nation.
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Succession: Philippines Dictator’s son poised for landslide election win
Ferdinand Marcos, the son of the late Philippines’ dictator, looks set for a landslide victory in the country’s presidential elections.
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Welcome to Poland? – A tale of two refugee crises
The unimaginable number of people who’ve been uprooted from their homes in Ukraine dwarfs any refugee crisis Europe has seen in most of our lifetimes.
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The Ukrainian refugees who end up in Russia – often not by choice
Since the war started in February, the world’s focus has been on refugees from Ukraine heading west.
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Russia Ukraine conflict: Putin orders blockade of last Mariupol stronghold
Vladimir Putin has ordered his forces not to storm the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the city of Mariupol – but to blockade it instead.
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Russia Ukraine conflict: 300-mile offensive begins as Ukraine braces for more Russian strikes
Russian forces have launched their offensive in the east of Ukraine.
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Hans Zimmer: Art is ‘greatest weapon’ against brutality and war
His own mother fled the Nazis in 1939. Today his orchestra includes a number of Ukranians – many of them women from Odesa who’ve fled the war back home.
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One family’s journey out of Mariupol
There have been renewed efforts to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol in Ukraine.
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What happened to the Mariupol teachers we met in January?
Before the war broke out, back in January, our reporter Paraic O’Brien was in Mariupol, where he spent time filming with two teachers at a local elementary school in the east of the city.
