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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DUP needs to realise PM cares more about the EU than its tests, says Stormont’s former Brexit chief

The man who was Stormont’s most senior official dealing with Brexit has said that the DUP needs to realise that the G...

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Prominent US priest tried to sue BBC’s Seamus McKee after claiming he’d linked him to the IRA

A high-profile Irish American priest launched a libel action against BBC journalist Seamus McKee and others after bei...

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Stormont officials knew of cross-border cattle smuggling during BSE – but didn’t want public to know

Senior Stormont officials knew in 1997 that systemic smuggling of cattle across the border was dangerously underminin...

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A blackout crisis may be beyond point of no return, with little evidence of panic

At 7.33am yesterday morning, the antiquated Unit Two at Kilroot Power Station on Belfast Lough’s northern shore had t...

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Letter proposing road from NI to Scotland by filling sea with rubble actually got considered civi...

Almost 60 years ago, a civil servant sent a detailed reply to a member of the public who suggested filling in a stret...

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Declassfied files: Government estimated between 30 and 40 transgender people living in NI 23 year...

There were believed to be just 30 or 40 transgender people living in Northern Ireland in 2000, the First and Deputy F...

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Declassified files: Stormont department paid US lobbyists thousands a day to fight guidelines on ...

A Stormont department paid US lobbyists the equivalent of more than $2,000 a day to oppose Irish-American activists p...

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Evidence that anti-McGuinness protests at Donaldson’s old school were orchestrated, declassified ...

There was circumstantial evidence that walkout protests by pupils at Jeffrey Donaldson’s old school were being orches...

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How Irish Sea tunnel proposed in 60s became just another pipe dream

Just a few years before the outbreak of the Troubles, the old Northern Ireland government examined the possibility of...

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Declassified file reveals ‘unacceptable terms’ for NIO in 1999 including ‘joint authority’ and ‘r...

Northern Ireland Office ministers were in 1999 warned to avoid any reference to joint authority because it would “inf...

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Anti-Catholic sentiment in the PSNI is driving brave officers away

There are times when bureaucrats must wonder if their work really matters — staring at screens in esoteric corners of...

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PSNI admits senior officer who drove off with sensitive papers on car roof scattered names of 42 ...

The PSNI has denied that the paperwork that a senior PSNI officer put on top of their car and scattered over a motorw...

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