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.
Exclusive: An email sent by a reporter on Newsnight’s axed Jimmy Savile investigation suggests editor Peter Rippon played down the story because “it was 40 years ago… the girls were not too young”.
Channel 4 News has obtained an email involving the Newsnight team that worked on the abandoned Savile expose. Paraic O’Brien reports.
The BBC says Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon will “step aside with immediate effect” pending an investigation into the decision to drop the programme’s report into allegations against DJ Jimmy Savile.
Why did so many individuals and institutions ignore the warnings about Jimmy Savile? Was it the tyranny of celebrity? Or an outdated, male-dominated culture that was happy to turn a blind eye?
As the BBC’s director-general apologises, Jimmy Savile’s former producer tells Channel 4 News nobody from the corporation has contacted him, despite the fact he worked for the star for 21 years.
The British entrepreneur and inventor Simon Woodroofe has re-engineered a city centre studio apartment into flexible suite by using some mechanical tricks from the stage.
BMW launches an investigation into its vehicles’ security after discovering a high-tech security loophole which has seen top-of-the-range cars driven away without the owners’ keys.
Olympic champion and 800m world record holder David Rudisha tells Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O’Brien that an Irish priest who trained him is “more than a father”.
It’s all happening at the Aquatics Centre – or rather, outside it – as embattled Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt shakes hands with News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Channel 4 News’s Paraic O’Brien looks on.
Earlier this week, Bradley Wiggins became the Briton to win the most Olympic medals ever. But his record was quickly overtaken by Sir Chris Hoy. So what makes the cyclists so individually special?
Ever wondered what sports journalists do when they cease their unrelenting pursuit of Olympic truth? They sit at desks, they eat food and they unwind in a place called the “quiet room”.
As anger mounts over empty seats at the London 2012 Olympics, Channel 4 News’s Paraic O’Brien offers Lord Coe photographic evidence of vacant blocks at the men’s gymnastics event.
Is it the torch relay or is it Eddie and Patsy with a bottle of champagne and a large cigarette lighter? Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O’Brien meets the stars of AbFab.
Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O’Brien uses the power of video to show the side of the Olympics you might not otherwise see…
For the first entry in his Olympics Scrapbook, Paraic O’Brien meets US comedian/activist the Reverend Billy Talen as he rails against the Olympics – “as bad as the Bank of England!”