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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Serious pressures facing NI public services not conveyed in top Stormont official Jayne Brady’s c...

Northern Ireland is experiencing what the body representing head teachers describes as a “catastrophic failure of gov...

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Civil servants were warned of flaws but pushed on with £14m Planning Portal

Northern Ireland’s widely-derided new £14m online planning system was so problematic that before its delayed launch B...

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A dystopian world of dark possibility is now here, even if few yet realise it

Sean was baffled when a rival company announced a technological breakthrough which he’d just made, but discussed with...

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Weak NI Civil Service is letting Secretary of State get away with a budget which hurts us all

Budgets might sound boring, but this one is going to impact everyone in Northern Ireland: it will mean less money for...

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Recycling firm which entered joint venture with Mobuoy dumpers says it knew nothing of illegality

A major recycling company had entered into an agreement with the operators of Mobuoy illegal dump, according to docum...

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Stormont was told in 2016 of crime scene documents found by Telegraph rotting at vast illegal dump

Thousands of pages of documents which the Belfast Telegraph found lying at a major crime scene had been drawn to the ...

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SF thinks it should be illegal to treat a nun more favourably than a criminal – and not for the r...

Seven years ago a Sinn Féin TD stood up in the Dáil and proposed something which went without remark, but which gives...

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Mobuoy scandal: Criminals’ documents show even the PSNI was using vast illegal dump, funding orga...

Just minutes after climbing through the broken bars of the vast galvanised gates on Mobuoy Road, I was standing in wh...

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Two top British cyber security officials on how Belfast came to become a key hub for sector

For years, Belfast has been evolving into an increasingly important hub for cyber security companies — but how did th...

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Cyber security chief says ‘offensive’ file saying Belfast black taxis are ‘run by the IRA’ should...

The Belfast-born official in charge of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has expressed profound regret at a d...

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Peter Robinson: DUP should have talked to SF earlier, and McGuinness, via his actions, recanted f...

The DUP should have talked directly to Sinn Féin before it did, even though that would have dismayed the supporters o...

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A trawl through the archives reveals the twists and turns on road to peace in Northern Ireland

In the weeks leading up to Good Friday 1998 the mood within unionism gave little indication David Trimble would be ab...

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