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.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the country’s energy supplies are in a critical state – after another wave of Russian bomb and drone attacks left a third of its power plants destroyed.
Russia’s latest brutal tactic in its war against Ukraine was laid bare this morning – as a swarm of so-called kamikaze drones, laden with explosives, struck the capital Kyiv during rush hour. Ukrainian officials say most of the Iranian-made drones were shot down, but several made it through, and at least four people, including a…
More than 30 settlements across Ukraine have been hit by Russian missile strikes in the last day, damaging civilian homes and critical infrastructure.
The UK has promised to send hundreds of anti-aircraft rockets to Ukraine, capable of shooting down cruise missiles – as Russian airstrikes intensify.
Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy has urged Western leaders to send him more air defence systems, a day after Russian missiles rained down on numerous cities including the capital Kyiv.
Ukraine hadn’t seen attacks like this since the early days of the war.
Russia has faced weeks of military defeats in Ukraine, but today brought a reminder its military is still able to cause substantial destruction.
With the news from the frontline in Ukraine getting ever worse for Moscow, could the Putin era be drawing to a close?
Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s first ever female Prime Minister – and head the most right wing government since the demise of facism in 1945.
Military officials around Russia have begun serving call-up papers on men of fighting age, just hours after President Putin announced what he called a ‘partial mobilisation’ to bolster his forces in Ukraine.
Our Foreign affairs Correspondent Paraic O’Brien has been looking at the build-up to his speech in Russia and the occupied territories where referendums are due to be held.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a surprise visit to Izyum, a newly retaken city in the north east of Ukraine, which has been left devastated by months of Russian occupation.
In Ukraine, the country’s president says 6,000 square kilometres of territory have now been seized back from Russian occupied forces. Volodymr Zelenskyy has renewed calls for international allies to send fresh weaponry. But amid fears at how Moscow will now respond, the Kremlin has issued a veiled threat to critics of Vladimir Putin’s invasion –…
Ukraine says it has forced Russian troops out of more than 20 towns and villages in the last 24 hours, claiming that Russians have begun fleeing from occupied areas of the Donbas.
Political leaders across Northern Ireland have united to pay tribute to the Queen, recalling her historic handshake with the former IRA leader turned deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness a decade ago – which did so much to advance the cause of reconciliation.