Brendan O'Brien was once a journalist on

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programme, he worked for RTE from 1973 until 2002. In 1983, O'Brien won a

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for his reporting on the RTÉ current affairs programme, ''

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''. He is noted for his report and investigation of

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where he follows the criminal and confronts him in the street. In 2008, O'Brien won the Irish Children's Book of the Year Award for ''The Story of Ireland''. He has also written about the history of the IRA."''O'Brien Pocket History of the IRA'' by Brendan O'Brien"
The O'Brien Press. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
Publisher sales display. . With short biography of O'Brien. He worked from 2005 until 2010 for the independent radio station

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presenting ''The Saturday Edition''. O'Brien is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Ulster.

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