Sam McBride Northern Ireland Editor
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Sam McBride is the Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph and the Sunday Independent. His 2019 book Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite became a Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. He is a regular presence on radio and television, giving analysis of events which impact on Northern Irish politics and society.

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Endemic rottenness in the local waste industry a problem Stormont keeps failing to deal with

Across Northern Ireland lie myriad parcels of land which are not what they seem. A pastoral scene where light streams...

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Both DUP and Sinn Fein’s indifference to lies is really straining trust in politics

Charles de Gaulle once observed wryly that “since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to ...

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Pitiful Stormont spectacle undermines not just our faith in a system of scrutiny but risks erodin...

For 50 minutes this week, the public got to see a system of devolution whose internal scrutiny mechanisms are failing.

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Disarray on NI Executive plan to close RHI as DUP stance leaves Sinn Fein isolated

Stormont’s plan to shut the RHI scheme has been thrown into disarray after every Executive party except Sinn Féin vot...

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Jumping on every passing bandwagon sums up Sinn Féin’s shifting policies

Six days ago, as Sinn Féin was preparing to finally own up to Niall Ó Donnghaile’s indefensible actions, the party di...

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Where exactly are we going in the future? Northern Ireland politics in 2030 could look very diffe...

The year 2030 is now closer to us in the future than the fire in Notre Dame, the emergence of Derry Girls or the expo...

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Niall Ó Donnghaile was happy to slur us when we were investigating his own misbehaviour

Six days ago, Niall Ó Donnghaile engaged in what for him was typical behaviour: self-righteous denunciation of those ...

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Stormont hasn’t implemented 40% of RHI Inquiry findings – and it is getting worse in some areas

More than four years after the costly Inquiry into the Renewable Heat Initiative concluded, auditors have concluded t...

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Key discrimination against NI passengers on Enterprise train to be ended within days

A longstanding discrimination against Northern Ireland passengers on the Belfast-Dublin train is to be ended in a for...

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Anybody buying a house near NI’s coasts or rivers should consult Stormont’s flood maps

Even from afar, watching the power of nature turbocharged by mankind’s hubris is increasingly sobering.

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Indefensibly, the Covid Inquiry is hiding key Stormont evidence from public — and that is not jus...

Did you know that the public inquiry into the Covid pandemic is hiding a huge volume of evidence from the public who ...

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Sinn Fein appear to have broken Assembly rules when paying former press officer Michael McMonagle

Sinn Féin appears to have broken Assembly rules in how it claimed taxpayers’ money to pay Michael McMonagle, a man wh...

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