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’s NI Protocol dilemma: Clear that most of its seven tests not met

For more than a year and a half, the DUP has bored anyone in earshot by repeating the mantra that any deal on the NI ...

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Will the Windsor Framework be enough for the DUP?

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has triumphantly unveiled his new Brexit deal with the EU – the Windsor Framework.

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Why the devil will be in the detail as Sunak tries to sell his agreement to DUP

The problem with dishonesty is that when you’re telling the truth people might not believe you.

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PM: There’s no Irish Sea customs border – even though EU says there is

The Prime Minister has denied that there will be any customs border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland under ...

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The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean?

The Belfast Telegraph’s Sam McBride explains how the Northern Ireland Protocol has been altered and what that means f...

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Omagh gun attack is an attempt to gouge new scars into a new generation

Just hours before PSNI officer John Caldwell was shot multiple times in front of his young son last Wednesday night, ...

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A revised protocol won’t protect EU, but a new anti-smuggling agency certainly can

Two months ago I received an email I initially thought was spam, and then thought was a leak from within government.

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Farmer ‘had no idea’ about huge cannabis factory found yards from his home

A farmer whose shed housed one of the biggest and most sophisticated cannabis farms ever discovered in Northern Irela...

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RHI claimants lose attempt to recoup subsidies – but judge has warning for Stormont

RHI boiler owners relying on Arlene Foster’s cast-iron guarantee that their payments could only rise for 20 years hav...

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Downing Street’s misunderstanding of the DUP is baffling

The DUP’s refusal to rapidly sign up to a deal on the NI Protocol seems to have astonished Downing Street, but that v...

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Liberal unionism has triumphed as an idea, but is homeless thanks to NI21 chaos

A decade ago this week, two charismatic MLAs quit the Ulster Unionists to set up a new political party.

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Paul Gosling: Sam McBride quizzes the Englishman arguing for Irish unity

Paul Gosling has written for almost every British broadsheet newspaper, he has been a Labour Party councillor, and is...

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