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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Reading attack: Man pleads guilty to three murders
The man who killed three people in a knife attack at a park in Reading in June has pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and three of attempted murder.
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How conspiracy theorists reacted to Trump’s vow to fight US election results
“The media is the opposition party” – that was Donald Trump just a few days after he was sworn into office in 2016. Last night, when the major networks cut away from the president’s speech as he made claim after claim of a plot to cheat him out of the election, it seemed to confirm…
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Four members of Kurdish-Iranian family killed in English Channel crossing
The Kurdish-Iranian family who died when their boat capsized in the English Channel had been trying to seek a better life in the UK.
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Four people die crossing English Channel in boat – including two children
The two children were on a small boat, carrying more than a dozen people.
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What a Biden victory could mean for post-Brexit UK
If Joe Biden were to win the election in November, what would that mean for the so-called special relationship between America and the UK?
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Rival activist groups patrolling Kent beaches as migrants cross Channel
We spent the weekend with rival groups of activists who are patrolling the Kent coastline looking out for refugees and migrants arriving on UK shores.
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The Thai king, the crop top, and a poodle
King Vajiralongkorn normally lives in Germany – a source of anger for many Thai people.
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Vietnamese migrants died in ‘unbearable’ conditions in airtight container, trial told
The Old Bailey heard that 39 Vietnamese migrants died in “unbearable” conditions, having spent at least 11 hours sealed inside an airtight container.
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Priti Patel vows to fix ‘fundamentally broken’ asylum system
Human rights groups warned the changes could make the current system worse.
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UK government charters private jet that deports one person
A jumbo jet, a fleet of buses and dozens of staff – all to deport one person, with no right to remain in the UK, back to France.
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Police officer shot dead in London police station
Boris Johnson, the Home Secretary and the Metropolitan Police commissioner have all paid tribute to the police sergeant who was shot in the chest by a suspect at a custody centre and was pronounced dead later in hospital
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Home Office ‘disappointed’ after judge halts flight to deport asylum seekers
The Home Office say they are “bitterly disappointed” by a judge’s decision to stop a whole flight of asylum seekers from being deported to Spain.
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Small businesses win court case against insurers over Covid payouts
It could be a financial lifeline for thousands of struggling small companies.
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Mass scramble to escape France to avoid two-week quarantine
Travellers returning from France must now self isolate for 14 days as new restrictions came into force after the 4am deadline.
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UK and France seek to ‘completely cut’ migrant boat route across English Channel
The surge in people trying to reach the UK by crossing the Channel is “completely unacceptable”, the immigration minister has declared – after talks with French officials in Paris.
