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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Good Friday Agreement: With free movement on the island, the border means we’re having our cake a...

Never in the 102 years of partition has it been easier to not only work across the border, but also for people to pla...

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Transformation of NI has been imperfect... but now our future looks brighter

We are now as far from the Good Friday Agreement as its creators were from the Sunningdale Agreement or as far as tha...

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Trimble and Hume’s Agreement was imperfect – but it has transformed NI in ways we can scientifica...

We are now as far from the Good Friday Agreement as its creators were from the Sunningdale Agreement or as far as tha...

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Good Friday Agreement: Ex-spin-doctor lays bare hidden Stormont

Stephen Grimason was the journalist who waved a leaked copy of the Good Friday Agreement on our television screens wi...

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Why a crisis is building in Stormont’s veterinary division

Government vets are like power station engineers or sewerage treatment plant workers — unseen by most of us but criti...

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NI civil servants union calls for form of Westminster direct rule if Stormont is not restored

A form of direct rule is needed within weeks if power-sharing isn’t urgently restored, the body which represents Stor...

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Why do unionists call GFA the Belfast Agreement? The answer is complicated

It is the most quintessentially Northern Irish example of being able to argue over something most people elsewhere wo...

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Shambolic state of Defence Forces shows Irish Government doesn’t take idea of a united Ireland se...

If a united Ireland came suddenly and loyalists went on a murderous rampage, what would happen? Based on the current ...

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How one Stormont department faces a massive crisis of its own making

Government vets are like power station engineers or sewerage treatment plant workers — unseen by most of us but criti...

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Hidden Stormont: Ex-spin doctor sets out how politicians in ‘crap’ Executive really functioned

The man who for 15 years was the Executive’s most senior spin doctor has laid bare the impossibility of persuading th...

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SNP frailty shows Sinn Fein and unionists the risks of centralising a constitutional movement

There can be peril in political popularity. That may seem absurd in an occupation where success is defined by popular...

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Northern Ireland is becoming more Irish as the grip of unionism fades

The utter dominance of unionism in Northern Ireland’s first half century can be conveyed in three facts: in that peri...

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