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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Foot and mouth crisis: NI officials feared they’d have to ask RUC to shoot animals in ‘doomsday s...

The 2001 foot and mouth disease crisis overwhelmed Stormont’s resources to the extent that if it had become much wors...

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PM was urged not to intervene in case of innocent man convicted of murder: ‘Would it do NI any go...

Civil servants warned against the Prime Minister intervening over the conviction of a young man ultimately cleared of...

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The inside story of why Doug Beattie quit: A leader whose downfall began in his moment of triumph

Doug Beattie’s sudden resignation as UUP leader stunned some colleagues.

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Sinn Féin faces a nightmarish situation as party's immigration stance is more hopelessly contorte...

Last Wednesday, Sinn Féin’s press office issued a statement encapsulating the party’s brazenness and its desperation....

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Bungling Stormont is still sitting on its hands as some of the poorest among us are allowed to go...

Even after covering Stormont for the best part of two decades, there are moments when the nature and scale of its bun...

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NI Water probing claims it has paid contractors multiple times for work

A fraud investigation is under way into allegations that lax controls at NI Water meant it has been paying contractor...

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Blair put intense pressure on Attorney General to drop case against leading Sinn Féin figure, say...

Tony Blair put intense pressure on his Attorney General to drop criminal proceedings against a leading Sinn Féin memb...

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Thousands of top-level Stormont text messages reveal officials’ contempt for ministers’ behaviour

The release of thousands of text and WhatsApp messages from some of Stormont’s most senior ministers and civil servan...

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Repeal of Legacy Act is a double-edged sword for the Irish Government

Nothing about the British government’s Legacy Act proved as unifying as its demise.

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More than 25 years later, we can at last report what Martin McGuinness said about Peter Robinson

For more than two years, the Northern Ireland Assembly has been fighting to prevent the Belfast Telegraph telling you...

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Puberty blockers unlikely to be banned in NI — which could be back door for drugs going to Britain

Stormont’s Department of Health has said that puberty blockers for children will remain lawful in Northern Ireland un...

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Former Sinn Féin press officer makes hefty payment to ex-PSNI man he defamed online

A former Sinn Féin press officer has paid substantial damages to an ex-police officer after making untrue allegations...

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