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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.

  • 1 Jul 2013

    One man’s enthusiastic grin as he stands within inches of his hero Barack Obama has caught the imagination of the Twittersphere. Paraic O’Brien went in search of #redtieguy.

  • 26 Jun 2013

    Special Branch officer Roger Pearce refutes claims there were attempts to smear the family of the murdered black teenager, Stephen Lawrence. Paraic O’Brien reports, with analysis by Simon Israel.

  • 14 Jun 2013

    What drove the university-educated Londoner Ibrahim al-Mazwagi to fight and die in Syria’s civil war? What drove him to jihad and how many others are there like him in the UK?

  • 27 May 2013

    Far-right Hungarian party Jobbik is one of the country’s most successful political parties. It is anti-Semitic, anti-EU and anti-Roma and is described by some as the incarnation of the new Europe.

  • 30 Mar 2013

    A British blogger has been monitoring weapons used in the Syrian conflict, providing important analysis of the conflict for human rights groups – while working from his Leicester home.

  • 22 Jan 2013

    New footage emerges of the bloody aftermath of the hostage taking at an Algerian natural gas facility, in which nearly 40 hostages were killed. Paraic O’Brien reports.

  • 22 Jan 2013

    The tabloids are dominated by headlines about Prince Harry killing the Taliban. But what did he actually say? And what about the “not necessarily politically correct” posters in Camp Bastion?

  • 21 Jan 2013

    As he returns from duty in Afghanistan, Prince Harry offers a rare insight into juggling his roles as a prince and pilot – revealing that he does not always get the balance right.

  • 13 Jan 2013

    Channel 4 News learns that the death of a British schoolgirl in Jamaica could have been connected to a lottery scam. Imani Green, from south London, was killed in the town of Duncans on Friday.

  • 11 Jan 2013

    Today’s report into Jimmy Savile’s career of abuse, which lasted for 54 years, details allegations as recent as 2009 and includes one incident in which a dying child was touched inappropriately.

  • 12 Nov 2012

    Amid claims, denials, legal threats and apologies, one fact remains: we still do not know the truth about children abused in north Wales. Paraic O’Brien anticipates where the two reviews will lead.

  • 8 Nov 2012

    From the initial investigation into north Wales child abuse in 1991 to the Waterhouse inquiry in 2000, Sian Griffiths has collated details of every allegation and document surrounding the scandal.

  • 6 Nov 2012

    Exclusive: Steve Messham tells Channel 4 News he passed photographs of children being abused, including himself, to the police but they failed to act.

  • 31 Oct 2012

    Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O’Brien looks at Jimmy Savile’s time as head of a taskforce at psychiatric hospital Broadmoor.

  • 30 Oct 2012

    The former headmistress at Duncroft approved school, where the Jimmy Savile scandal started, is claimed to have said the police never contacted her in connection with abuse at the institution.

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