In May 2013 O'Brien was appointed Northern Correspondent of The Irish Catholic, a Dublin-based weekly newspaper, a part-time post, and conducted the first ever media interview with an elderly Catholic priest who carries a bullet in his brain from a gun attack in 1974. In November 2015 in The Irish Catholic he conducted the first wide-ranging interview with Mary McAleese since she retired as President of Ireland in 2011. Since June 2015 O'Brien has contributed regularly as a columnist to The Irish News in Belfast and also writes occasionally for The Belfast Telegraph. References Journalists from Northern Ireland Living people People from Enniskillen Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland Year of birth missing (living people)