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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Omagh Bombing inquiry contains a critical flaw that could intensify families’ pain

Two days after the Omagh bomb tore the heart out of the Co Tyrone market town in 1998, Northern Ireland’s Department ...

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Cover-up of a cover-up: How DUP expenses claims were hidden from voters

Three years ago, a cover-up began inside a decaying Northern Ireland council. Now, as an election looms, that cover-u...

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Reunification would be easier if Sinn Féin didn’t exist, says Irish unity campaigner

Irish unity would now be far more achievable if Sinn Féin didn’t exist, the author of a book arguing in favour of reu...

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Five points to take from the NI Protocol ruling

In what was probably the most pan-unionist court challenge mounted in living memory, the UK’s highest court has compr...

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Stormont devolution could be history unless a new party emerges

At midnight a year ago today, Paul Givan’s resignation as First Minister collapsed devolution.

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Even moderate unionists and nationalists are divided on why support for Good Friday Agreement is ...

The Good Friday Agreement was meant to unite Northern Ireland’s divided society, and it still unites a clear majority...

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A deathbed tape exposes a vast criminal enterprise and the destruction of our environment

In late 2016, a dying man summoned to his hospital bed someone who would hear and record how he had transported toxic...

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Tamara Bronckaers: Top vets not questioned in probe over the forcing out of whistleblower

Civil servants have published a 69-page report into how a government vet was hounded out of her job for whistleblowin...

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Poots abused office for political gain, says union which represents Stormont’s top civil servants

A DUP minister wrongly politicised the civil service by abusing power for political gain, the union which represents ...

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Sam McBride: What’s next on Leo Varadkar’s list of regrets after his admissions over NI protocol?

Just two years ago, with the Irish Sea border just weeks old, Leo Varadkar assured the public he had helped secure th...

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Sam McBride: A letter the DUP won’t admit exists is now a nightmare for civil servants

Hours before Edwin Poots left office two months ago, he left a letter with civil servants which he knew would make th...

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State papers: NIO man said Irish officials were ‘plagued’ by Bloody Sunday relatives seeking mone...

The Irish government claimed to be “plagued” by the families of Bloody Sunday victims, who pressed for their lawyers ...

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