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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Edgar Graham: Was the best leader unionism never had set up by a colleague?

A week ago yesterday I found myself standing at a door just north of Dublin in the hope that I’d be able to ask a 74-...

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The uncomfortable truth for the DUP is that it has presided over the weakening of the Union

The DUP once dismissed Jeffrey Donaldson as “Enoch Powell’s messenger boy” — and then he became their leader.

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‘I was beside Edgar Graham when he was shot... so close I was covered in his blood’

The man who was beside Edgar Graham when he was murdered 40 years ago today — standing so close to him that he was co...

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Killing Edgar, part one: The IRA murder of Edgar Graham at Queen’s University

Edgar Graham was just 29 years old when the IRA gunned him down on the street at Queen’s University in south Belfast.

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Northern Ireland society is in deep trouble - the people suffering as a result of chaos are rewar...

Last Wednesday morning, my daughter couldn’t go to school because the teachers in Northern Ireland were on strike. Th...

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Killed for his convictions: Edgar Graham, the brilliant lost leader of unionism, was slain 40 yea...

Late on the morning of December 7, 1983, students and lecturers were coming and going on Queen’s University’s campus,...

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Stormont law which protects suspected paedophiles criticised by abuse charity

The main body which trains UK churches in how to spot and prevent child abuse has expressed dismay at a new Stormont ...

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DUP’s absence has done so much damage, Donaldson needs a lot to show for it but likelihood is he ...

Above a photo of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the Belfast Telegraph’s front page headline yesterday was stark: “We’re in no...

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For Sinn Féin, war crimes exist only in the eye of the beholder

Is deliberately killing civilians a war crime? Not necessarily, Sinn Féin seems to think. If it happened on this isla...

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Claims top cleric sexually abused and mutilated victims — but is now protected by new Stormont law

A senior Protestant cleric had a secret life in which he sexually assaulted young girls and sadistically mutilated th...

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Keeping Chris Heaton-Harris in cabinet is inexplicable after his behaviour – unless it’s not abou...

Whatever Rishi Sunak’s reason for keeping Chris Heaton-Harris in post, it can’t have been because a single person in ...

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Civil servants face increased calls to restore free eye and dental care for vulnerable

Pressure is mounting on civil servants or the Secretary of State to urgently act over a failure to make a technical c...

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