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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NI vets’ body defends having controversial chief vet as guest of honour after forcing out of whis...

The North of Ireland Veterinary Association has been criticised for making chief vet Robert Huey a guest of honour at...

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Desperate Tories experiment with government by conspiracy theory

The UK Conservative party is in a dark place, and it’s likely to get darker. The party of Churchill and Thatcher — th...

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‘Exhausted, fed-up and highly stressed’: The day John Hume came close to packing it all in

After three decades where it remained a secret known only to a handful of people, a new book reveals that John Hume w...

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‘I was the last person John Hume had his eyes open for’… former SDLP leader’s carer tells of fina...

The young care assistant who looked after John Hume in his final months when the pandemic prevented his family from s...

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Tens of thousands are homeless in NI as Stormont’s landlord class grows wealthier

One of the most depressing elements of Northern Ireland’s situation is not that it doesn’t have a government – a prob...

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Poor planning has destroyed much of NI’s countryside – at a massive cost

Disastrous planning has not only destroyed much of Northern Ireland’s countryside with dispersed rural properties but...

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Sentencing of Mobuoy illegal dump criminals delayed yet again due to legal aid dispute

More than ten years after the authorities finally shut down Mobuoy illegal dump, the sentencing of two men who have a...

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Why I don’t buy Heaton-Harris’ defence of ‘unbelievably straightforward’ trade system

If the Irish Sea border was a person, it would have been groaning in dismay at hearing Chris Heaton-Harris try to def...

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Housing has come a long way in this country… but we still have distance to travel

Few human needs are as basic as housing. After food, water and air, shelter is crucial to our ability to survive.

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Lawyer pulls out of Nama trial which now won't happen for at least another year

One of Northern Ireland’s biggest criminal trials in years which involves allegations of criminality by some of Belfa...

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We might all have been seriously misreading who Jeffrey Donaldson is and where he wants to take N...

What if the real Jeffrey Donaldson is not the man we’ve thought him to be? For years, Donaldson has widely been seen ...

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More than 2,000 civil servants on ‘temporary’ promotion... one for over 18 years

More than 10% of all civil servants are on temporary promotion — and one of them has been ‘temporarily’ promoted for ...

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