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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Northern Ireland’s frightening decay is breaking public services, and breaking people

There’s an end of days feel to Northern Ireland. It’s not that Irish unity is necessarily looming, but that dramatic ...

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Lough Neagh will remain seriously polluted for 20 years, even if we cut emissions — which are sti...

Lough Neagh is so heavily polluted that it would take 20 years to make it environmentally “safe” even if the pollutio...

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Disquiet within PSNI’s most elite unit over proposal to move it to RAF Aldergrove

A plan to move the PSNI’s most elite officers to RAF Aldergrove has led to internal disquiet amid concerns that the l...

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Testing of Lough Neagh fish for poison begins 10 days after full extent of pollution crisis revealed

Ten days after the Belfast Telegraph revealed the scale of devastating pollution afflicting Lough Neagh, the authorit...

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Stormont has made mistakes with Lough Neagh, admits Sinn Fein’s Francie Molloy

Stormont’s mistakes have contributed to the Lough Neagh pollution crisis, a Sinn Fein MP has admitted — and he doesn’...

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Leo Varadkar’s absurd take on Northern Ireland funding has all sides hot and bothered

Sometimes Northern Ireland’s capacity for absurdity defies the expectations of even the most cynical observers. Last ...

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It’s not just Sinn Féin – the PSNI has been cosying up to loyalist crime bosses, with disastrous ...

Lurching along with some sort of collective leadership while bureaucrats insist everything is fine, the PSNI now rese...

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Lough Neagh pollution: Lifeboat training suspended and crews only allowed in water to save lives

Lough Neagh is now so dangerously polluted that its lifeboat crews are unable to train in the water and now cannot en...

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Dog became seriously ill and died within hours of walk on beach 35 miles from Lough Neagh

The sudden death of a dog has prompted a Ballymoney woman to warn dog owners about the danger of the deadly cyanobact...

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Confusion as public are warned against eating some fish from Lough Neagh

There is confusion from government over whether it is safe to eat fish caught on Lough Neagh’s chronically polluted w...

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Taxpayers asked for another £100k because PSNI refuses to pay bill over its own law-breaking

A refusal by the PSNI to pay a bill for something that it has already accepted it is liable for has seen the cost to ...

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Ian Paisley’s old friend says a ‘new Ireland’ is now inevitable, but will his cultural identity b...

When your enemy becomes your friend, it can be awkward for you as well as for him. For years, nationalists presented ...

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