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.
Hundreds of people have tried to storm the border from Belarus into Poland, using branches and cutting through razor wire in an effort to climb over fences.
At least 25 people have been killed and dozens of others were injured after an attack at the entrance to a military hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul.
An eighth person has died attempting to cross into Poland in what has become the new frontline for desperate migrants trying to make it illegally into Europe.
Ethnic minority French nationals have told Channel 4 News they feel under threat from “anger” stirred up by a man dubbed the “French Trump”, as he surges in popularity ahead of the country’s presidential elections next year.
At least six people have been shot dead by guards at a migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, according to United Nations officials, after yesterday’s mass breakout by hundreds of people.
The Libyan authorities have rounded up thousands of refugees and migrants over the last week, holding them in detention centres where conditions are described as “inhumane”.
20 years ago today the UK, US and coalition forces began a military offensive to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan. Today the Taliban is back in charge – facing an insurgency very similar to the one they once posed. Islamic State Khorasan Province – otherwise known as IS-K – is the regional affiliate of the…
The High Court has ruled that Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, “probably ordered” the hacking of his ex-wife and her lawyer’s phones. The two have been locked in a custody battle over their children after she fled with them to the UK fearing for her safety in Dubai.
Several civilians are thought to have died in the blast, the biggest attack in the city since local Islamic State extremists targeted the mass evacuation at the airport more than a month ago.
The police watchdog is investigating five serving Met officers who are accused of sharing what are described as “discriminatory and inappropriate” WhatsApp messages with Sarah Everard’s murderer Wayne Couzens.
Barely a month after the Afghan debacle, lleaders in Mali have accused France of abandoning it in the fight against jihadist insurgents by reducing its forces there.
A senior Taliban official in Afghanistan has warned that extreme punishments like executions will resume in the country, claiming it’s “necessary for security”.
Hundreds more people have been evacuated from a village in La Palma, as a volcano on the Canary Island continues to erupt.
A third Russian man has been accused of involvement in the poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in 2018.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Russia’s ruling pro-Kremlin party looks poised to keep its supermajority in parliament, after elections marred by allegations of vote rigging and fraud.