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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French rescue services failed to respond to sinking migrant boat, leaked report shows
More evidence has emerged highlighting concerns over the response to a migrant boat that sank in the Channel last November, with at least 33 people on board.
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Ukraine war: Inside a reported Russian army torture site (Dubbed)
The newly liberated Ukrainian city of Kherson is coming to terms with eight months of war and Russian occupation.
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Ukraine war: Inside a reported Russian army torture site
The newly liberated Ukrainian city of Kherson is coming to terms with eight months of war and Russian occupation.
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‘Russia missiles’ kill two in Nato member Poland, claims US official
The timing of this fresh wave of Russian attacks is not lost on anybody, coming hours after President Zelenskyy addressed world leaders meeting in Bali for the G20.
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Ukraine war: Zelenskyy tells soldiers ‘we are moving forward, we are ready for peace’
Kherson was captured in March just weeks after Russia’s full scale invasion, the only regional capital which Moscow managed to occupy.
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The joy and the pain of liberation in Kherson
President Zelenskyy has been giving his nightly address – saying Ukraine had now gained control over 60 settlements in the Kherson region.
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Ukraine troops greeted with celebrations as Kherson is retaken
Joyous residents welcomed Ukrainian troops in the centre of Kherson today after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion earlier this year.
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Ukraine war: is Russia’s Kherson retreat a turning point? (Dubbed)
Could this be a turning point in the war in Ukraine?
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Ukraine war: is Russia’s Kherson retreat a turning point?
Could this be a turning point in the war in Ukraine?
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Russia humiliated, forced to retreat from crucial Ukrainian city
Russia has announced its imminent withdrawal from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the only regional capital it has captured since February’s full-scale invasion, and which it illegally annexed just weeks ago.
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Ukraine: Russia ‘fleeing’ Kherson as its civilians reveal brutality
As winter sets in, the war in Ukraine looks set for a new, bloody phase around Kherson.
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Russian forces ‘withdrawing from Kherson’
Russian forces appear to be withdrawing from the Ukrainian city of Kherson in the south of the country – the first and only regional capital they managed to take and hold since the invasion began. There are reports of checkpoints abandoned around the city and residents have told us that there are fewer troops on…
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Ukraine: Power and water supplies hit in missile attacks
Power and water supplies have been hit across many of Ukraine’s major cities, after a barrage of Russian missiles and drones struck critical infrastructure this morning. Most of the missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defence and emergency crews have now managed to restore water to most of the capital Kyiv, although part of…
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Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘primitive blackmail’ after backing out of grain deal
Ukraine has accused Moscow of engaging in yet more “primitive blackmail” after it pulled out of the deal allowing exports of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
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Russia-Ukraine war: The story behind a suspected war crime (audio dubbed)
It’s been 246 days since Russia invaded Ukraine.
