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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Covid Inquiry: Top Stormont health official voiced concern that death figures were ‘completely mi...

One of Northern Ireland’s most senior medical figures accused the Department of Health (DoH) of “completely misleadin...

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Stormont emergency plans only kick-started when Covid arrived... too late to have any impact

Stormont only started updating its arrangements for handling a major emergency when that emergency arrived, the forme...

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Stormont’s shambolic politicking as people died led Chief Medical Officer to despair of ‘dysfunct...

Northern Ireland's chief medical officer referred to Executive ministers as "dysfunctional b******s", it has emerged,...

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How Orange Order’s plan for a neck tie with crown motif was undone by the Queen

Just a few years before the Troubles began, the Home Office knew so little about the Orange Order that it resorted to...

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How a stranger’s unexpected words imparted wisdom from beyond the grave

Life’s many coincidences lead us down unexpected paths. One day recently my wife came into the kitchen where I was li...

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It would be a scandal if Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial collapsed due to the justice system’s failure

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial is a monumental challenge for the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland.

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Army’s concern at RUC getting a bigger covert operations role

A secret Army paper in 1984 expressed concern the RUC might get more involved in “the mucky end” of intelligence-gath...

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Kew Files: Adams and McGuinness separately said IRA had been wrong not to decommission earlier

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were in Dublin to meet US President George W ...

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The Kingsmill massacre: A squeeze of the hand on a cold winter’s night shows hope was always there

Imagine you are driving down a dark country road on a winter evening when you are stopped by armed men blocking the r...

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Inside IRA decommissioning: US spy satellites, Adams criticising the IRA, and inspections in dark...

Ever since the IRA’s historic decommissioning of weapons, the process which saw arms destroyed has been clothed in ac...

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Informant was paid equivalent of £55k for info which saw ‘notorious IRA gang’ arrested

The largest single payment to an informant in Northern Ireland during the first 13 years of the Troubles was £15,000 ...

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SF lobbied for return of on the run IRA man later killed by his former comrades

Sinn Féin pressed to get on the run Provo Kevin McGuigan back into Northern Ireland in 2000 — 15 years before the IRA...

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