Paraic O'Brien , Foreign Affairs Correspondent
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.
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Sudan crisis: thousands of British nationals stuck in war zone
There’s a Royal Navy frigate nearby and an RAF plane has landed in Port Sudan – as ministers admitted the “job isn’t done” when it comes to rescuing thousands of British passport holders trapped by the fighting.
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Over 10,000 people flee Sudan as ceasefire attempts fail
More than ten thousand people have fled across the Sudanese border into Chad – as fierce fighting continues between government and paramilitary forces battling for control of the country.
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Thousands flee Sudan capital as gunfire erupts despite ceasefire
Huge blasts and gunfire in Sudan’s capital were heard minutes after a ceasefire was due to start.
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Inside the world of Ukraine’s private arms dealers
The number of military vehicles sold by private dealers in the UK to Ukraine have soared since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion last year.
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President Biden wraps up four-day trip to Ireland
President Biden is wrapping up his four-day trip to the island of Ireland with a bit of family history – visiting a cathedral built with the bricks that his great, great, great grandfather sold to fund his voyage to America.
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Lebanon: The families trying to escape as country falls into chaos (dubbed)
Lebanon’s descent into economic and political chaos – both symbolised and exacerbated by the 2020 Beirut explosion – has forced much of its population into the hardest of decisions: whether to stay and hope things will improve, or risk life and limb seeking a better future abroad.
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Lebanon: The families trying to escape as country falls into chaos
Lebanon’s descent into economic and political chaos – both symbolised and exacerbated by the 2020 Beirut explosion – has forced much of its population into the hardest of decisions: whether to stay and hope things will improve, or risk life and limb seeking a better future abroad.
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France pension protests: Will Emmanuel Macron listen to public?
King Charles was meant to be beginning his European tour in France but as President Macron grapples with protests, sometimes turning violent, against his pension reforms, the trip was cancelled.
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France protests: hundreds of thousands on Paris streets as police deployed
In France, a 10th day of action by protestors – demonstrating against President Macron’s pension reforms – has again ended in clashes with the police.
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Inside Lebanon’s crisis: why families are fleeing to Europe (Dubbed)
There’s been no president for a year, political deadlock in parliament and banks have stopped people from withdrawing their own money.
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What’s it like living in a hotel seeking asylum in Britain?
Over 45,000 asylum seekers are now being housed in hotels across the UK, a situation the government says it wants to put an end to.
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Who is fuelling protests against UK’s asylum seekers?
More than 45,000 asylum seekers are currently being housed in hotels across the UK, at a cost of over six million pounds per day.
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Lineker backers crash far-right protest against refugees
The row over Gary Lineker also featured at a pre-organised protest against refugees by a far-right group in Cannock in Staffordshire.
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Has the Government’s small boats plan put people in Calais off crossing the Channel?
Downing Street is claiming the Home Secretary Suella Braverman didn’t approve an email sent in her name blaming civil servants for the failure to stop asylum seekers in small boats.
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Will the UK’s small boat ban actually work?
Almost 200 people, including children, attempted to cross the Channel in the early hours of Monday, some at risk of hypothermia after they were found along a freezing stretch of the French coastline. But undeterred, it seems, by the prospect of Britain’s proposed new ban.
