Producer credits: A Deadly American Marriage (Netflix); Dirty Moneyball (TNT/HBO); The Many Lives of Kevin McGeever (RTE)
Previous contributor to RTE, BBC World Service, Virgin Media.
Researcher and contributor for Burnt By The Sun, a two-hour RTE investigation into international property scams in Bulgaria, Dubai, Spain, France and India.
Contributor to 24 Hours to Kill - the murder of Sylvia Roche Kelly, broadcast on TV3 and CBS.
Contributor to the Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Irish Daily Mail, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Irish Mail on Sunday, BBC.
Former Security Correspondent, News Editor and Deputy Editor of the Irish Examiner.
Specialist investigative news and feature writer for the Irish Daily Mail: reported on the global financial crisis with dispatches from Madrid, New York, Berlin, Greece, Iceland, Dubai, Finland and London.
My reports from Dadaab, the world's biggest refugee camp, helped raise significant funds for four Irish charities working in the area.
I hold a Law Degree from UCD and a Master's in International Journalism from City University, London.
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By Brian Carroll
in New York
It’s 2am Wednesday in the dark, cavernous bar beneath the Fat Black Pussycat Club in Greenwich Village. Cori, a psychic, reads my right palm and tells me I will have a long and healthy life. I’m sceptical. It seems to be the prevailing mood now, not just in New York but almost everywhere else.
By Brian Carroll
in Reykjavik
The pure white snow is trampled to a concrete grey outside the food shelter in Reykjavik.
The temperature hits minus nine degrees as, throughout the afternoon, more than 400 people line up for free parcels of fish, mince, cereal, bread, and milk.
By Brian Carroll
THIS past week has been the strangest of my life. Around midday today, Sunday, I will be on Eamon Dunphy’s Newstalk radio show, reading live on air a letter I wrote to Osman, a seven-month-old baby, whom I helped to bury eight days ago.
Osman died of starvation in Dadaab, the world’s biggest refugee camp.
By Brian Carroll
In Berlin
THE 50-foot high mural opposite the Bellini Lounge on Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin asks ‘How long is now?’
Below the mural, a man with a crucifix around his neck fends off the prostitutes, who assail him every few minutes. Pointing to his cross, he tells them gently that he is a man of God and Jesus loves them
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