Philip O'Connor is an Irish freelance multimedia journalist, broadcaster and author living and working in Stockholm, Sweden for the last 20 years. In that time, he has covered major sporting events such as soccer World Cups and the Olympics as well as elections and breaking news all over Scandiavia. A fluent Swedish speaker, he also understands Norwegian and Danish.
Sweden-based journalist Philip O'Connor joins Eamon to talk about Sweden's move away from being a social democracy and what's behind the recent surge in gang violence.
Stockholm-based journalist Philip O'Connor joins Eamon to talk about the rise of the right in Sweden.
Stockholm-based journalist Philip O'Connor joins Eamon to talk about the rise of the Sweden Democrats party in the recent general election. The Swedish democrats are a nationalist, populist party with roots in a neo-Nazi party.