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.
Paraic O’Brien went to Bucharest to meet the people who live underground. Here he explains how it came about and what happened when he was there.
Deep under the streets of Bucharest – in Europe, in the 21st century – there is a network of tunnels and sewers that is home to hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse HIV and TB.
Until he was exposed by using an incorrect pigment, Wolfgang Beltracchi was the world’s most successful art forger. Channel 4 News meets the man whose forgeries are now valuable in their own right.
Last October, Paraic O’Brien spent three days and two nights with Constantine Boboc, a Romanian living rough in London. Here, he goes to Romania to try and find him.
The outgoing chair of the Police Federation Steve Williams writes to the organisation’s joint central committee claiming he was “gratuitously and cruelly bullied” by senior colleagues.
Baron Ramsbotham, a former chief inspector of prisons, asks the Home Office what it knew about the 84-year-old Canadian who died in handcuffs at Harmondsworth detention centre.
He died in handcuffs while detained at Harmondsworth detention centre – an 84-year-old Canadian with Alzheimer’s. Until now we only knew a name: Alois Dvorzac. But who was the man behind the tragedy?
Fracking has sparked protests in Britain, but these look subdued compared with a campaign in Romania by peasant farmers, who are fighting their own government. Jim Wickens and Paraic O’Brien report.
He was on a global quest to find his daughter, that ended in tragedy. How did an 84-year-old Canadian’s flight to Slovenia end with his death while handcuffed in Britain?
As Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale are found guilty of murdering Lee Rigby, the radical cleric who was Adebolajo’s mentor after he converted tells Channel 4 News he is “proud” of what he did.
More than 700 fines have been issued to niqab-wearing women in France since the country banned public face coverings in 2011. How does it feel for law-abiding citizens suddenly to be criminalised?
Dancing, and surviving, in the streets: Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O’Brien spends three days and two nights with Roma immigrants in London.
Are people in rural areas being left behind in the broadband age? Paraic O’Brien meets people in Cumbria who say it’s affecting their businesses and prospects. #c4newspopup
As Channel 4 News visits Swindon as part of #c4newspopup, we take a look at how the local NHS has managed to get so many people to enter therapy to cope with depression and stress.
Britain’s top police officer apologises for the “shock and offence” caused after it emerges undercover cops stole the identities of 42 dead children in order to infiltrate extremist groups.