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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The uncomfortable truth is that capitalist ‘success’ is bad for the planet

Throughout human history mankind has struggled to acquire wealth, not just out of personal greed but in the belief we...

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Sam McBride: Stormont knows we could be growing food on toxic land, but has chosen to leave us un...

Across Northern Ireland, vast tracts of land have been poisoned in ways which civil servants admit creates a “high ri...

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DAERA inspector faces charges linked to unlawful possession of vet medicine

A Stormont veterinary inspector who last month won a string of medals at the Balmoral Show is facing multiple charges...

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NI’s greenhouse gases still rising as Stormont officials suggest plan which wouldn’t meet legal t...

Northern Ireland is hopelessly failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the rest of the UK — and civil se...

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Thousands of NIO files have been quietly hidden – and lots of them are acutely sensitive

For 12 years, I have covered the government files declassified at the Public Record Office in Belfast.

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Dump leaking waste into Derry’s drinking water even worse than feared, experts have found

The scale of illegal waste dumped at a site which is leaching into Londonderry’s drinking water is vastly greater tha...

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Neutrality remarks row is about an undiplomatic president — but also something bigger

A furore over Irish President Michael D Higgins’ remarks on neutrality speaks to the intensity of the dispute over ho...

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Sacking of union official who accessed email accounts of colleagues was lawful: industrial tribunal

A trade union official at the monopoly company critical to keeping the lights on was lawfully sacked because he impro...

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Ireland has some of the world’s most scenic train journeys – but our railways could be so much be...

The names are evocative of adventure, romance and spectacular beauty: The Orient Express, the Flying Scotsman, the Tr...

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The world has changed so much in a decade... it is sobering to think what the future holds

A decade ago today, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and other world leaders flew into Northern Ireland fo...

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Incoherent Secretary of State cut our taxes last year — but now suggests we’re not being taxed en...

The Secretary of State’s list of 10 areas in which the people of Northern Ireland might be taxed more or lose free st...

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Dry taps and sewage flowing out of toilets: The future if NI water system isn’t repaired

Few of us want to think about what happens when we flush the toilet, or what is necessary to ensure clean water comes...

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