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.
Spain deployed its military to beaches surrounding the city, as more than 6,000 thousand new arrivals, many of them teenagers, emerged from the sea to a wall of soldiers.
In a knife-edge contest, Edwin Poots has won the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland.
If you live in Belfast, do you look to London, or do you look to Dublin? Or maybe you look to both, or neither.
The Queen has hailed the continued peace in Northern Ireland as a credit to its people – in a message marking a hundred years since its creation.
Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster says she’ll be stepping down from the job, and as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, after a revolt from within her own party ranks, especially over her handling of Brexit.
Arlene Foster’s days as the leader of the Northern Ireland’s biggest party, the DUP, could be coming to an end after a number of her assembly members and MPs reportedly called for a vote of no confidence in her.
Boris Johnson met the costs of refurbishing his flat in Downing Street out of his own pocket, a senior government minister has insisted.
The Irish Taoiseach has warned that Northern Ireland must not be plunged back into “that dark place of sectarian murders and political discord” after another night of violence which left 14 police officers hurt. In one incident, a burning car was rammed into a police Land Rover, while petrol bombs and missiles were also hurled…
Politicians in Northern Ireland have called for planned protests and parades to be cancelled as a mark of respect, in the wake of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death.
Paraic O’Brien reports from Stormont.
Emergency talks have been taking place in Northern Ireland, after yet another night of violence on a scale which police said they had not seen for decades.
Police in Northern Ireland say children as young as 12 were involved in another night of violence, as officers were attacked with petrol bombs in several predominantly Unionist estates in Londonderry last night. Officers were also attacked in loyalist areas of Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus – in scenes which the force described as “totally unacceptable”. Thirty…
PC Ben Hannam was found guilty of membership of banned far-right extremist group National Action.
Nine UK citizens, including five MPs, who’ve been sanctioned by China after accusing them of human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslims say they’ll “redouble” their campaigning on the issue.
The home secretary has set out plans to change the asylum system so refugees are assessed on how they arrive in the UK.