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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Lough Neagh has become a scene of Biblical disaster, and Stormont was central to its destruction

It’s killing dogs. It’s killing swans. And almost half of Northern Ireland is drinking water drawn from a source lace...

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Poisonous bacteria out of control on Lough Neagh is now killing swans, foxes and dogs

Toxic bacteria poisoning Lough Neagh is now killing swans, foxes, and dogs — but those seeking to raise awareness of ...

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Two separate serious complaints were made by former officers about PSNI’s Byrne and Hamilton

Simon Byrne’s sudden resignation came as he was facing two separate sets of serious allegations which could have led ...

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Wallace Thompson ‘should’ve kept views on Irish unity to himself,’ says Jim Wells

Former DUP minister Jim Wells has said that his friend of 50 years who helped found the DUP was wrong to say publicly...

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Farmer who criticised police for not catching those behind huge cannabis factory is charged himself

A farmer who told the Belfast Telegraph he was “really annoyed” that the police weren’t doing enough to find the crim...

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Irish unity is now inevitable, says DUP founding member

He’s a Paisleyite, a founding member of the DUP, a former special adviser to Nigel Dodds, and a leading evangelical P...

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Simon Byrne, Sinn Fein and a sorry saga of betrayal and sectarianism

One of sectarianism’s most alluring temptations is that while it might be distasteful, it will be a bulwark which, in...

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Simon Byrne said Michelle O’Neill indicated that Sinn Fein ‘could withdraw its support for policing’

Embattled Chief Constable Simon Byrne told the Policing Board that Sinn Fein Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill had ind...

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Simon Byrne’s position is irretrievable – but with every day he remains, he does even more damage

Six days before the PSNI’s gargantuan data breach, I was sitting in the force’s Brooklyn House headquarters talking t...

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Simon Byrne said Michelle O’Neill had ‘indicated that her party could withdraw its support for po...

Embattled Chief Constable Simon Byrne told the Policing Board that Sinn Fein Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill had ind...

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Every RHI claimant forced to repay subsidies could get their cash back after civil servants admit...

Every RHI claimant forced to repay money because they were allegedly over-claiming the lucrative subsidies could be i...

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PSNI’s top two officers disagreed on Ormeau incident – and are said to have problematic relationship

Buried in more than 18,000 words of Mr Justice Scoffield’s judgment on the PSNI are revelations which hint at a rift ...

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