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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Gaza: hundreds of thousands return to homes reduced to rubble
The UN says more than 375,000 Palestinians have been returning to what’s left of their homes in Northern Gaza, facing a huge level of destruction and the absence of any key services.
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Democratic Republic of Congo: M23 rebels claim Goma control
M23 rebels backed by Rwanda claim to have taken control of Goma – the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Hundred protests in Syria after Christmas tree set alight
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets across Syria after a Christmas tree was burned down last night.
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What Syria’s new army might look like
The leader of Syria’s HTS rebel group has promised to disband the armed factions that toppled Bashar al Assad and unite them under the authority of the defence ministry.
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True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave
His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.
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Syrians fight to identify loved ones in desperate prison search
While many Syrians celebrate, others continue their desperate search for loved ones disappeared by Assad’s brutal regime.
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Syria: Mourners gather for activist Mazen al-Hamada funeral [DUBBED]
He was the Syrian activist who became a symbol of the Assad regime’s brutality. Mazen Al-Hamada was one of tens of thousands detained and tortured after the 2011 uprising against Assad’s rule.
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Syria: Mourners gather for activist Mazen al-Hamada funeral
He was the Syrian activist who became a symbol of the Assad regime’s brutality. Mazen Al-Hamada was one of tens of thousands detained and tortured after the 2011 uprising against Assad’s rule.
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How young Syrians feel about the fall of Bashar Al-Assad
How young Syrians are reacting to the fall of Bashar Al-Assad.
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What next for Syria? – interview with HTS member
The most powerful militant group in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham or HTS, swept Bashar Al-Assad from power at the weekend with its lightning-quick offensive.
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Inside Sednaya: Blood stained nooses and giant iron press (dubbed)
The leader of HTS has vowed to pursue officials responsible for torture and war crimes during Assad’s violent regime.
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Inside Sednaya: Blood stained nooses and giant iron press
The leader of HTS has vowed to pursue officials responsible for torture and war crimes during Assad’s violent regime.
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Syria: Inside Sednaya prison
Foreign Affairs correspondent Pariac O’Brien reached Damascus after travelling by road from the Lebanese border.
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Counting underway in Ireland election
In Ireland, the two large centre right parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, look set to return to power.
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Housing crisis dominates as Ireland prepares to vote in snap election
Ireland is into its final hours of campaigning, ahead of tomorrow’s snap election.
