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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Top NIO official privately said nationalists had an ‘inability to come to terms with’ Bloody Sunday

The NIO’s most senior official — who would go on to head up the inquiry in the Iraq War — referred to “the nationalis...

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State papers: Mention of the names Ruth Dudley Edwards or Sean O’Callaghan ‘infuriated’ Irish gov...

The name of the historian and columnist Ruth Dudley Edwards "infuriated" the Irish government because she had critici...

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Irish diplomat privately told Foreign Office that Dublin expected north-south bodies to fall if S...

An Irish diplomat privately told the Foreign Office in 1999 that if Stormont collapsed, he would not expect north-sou...

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NIO believed Sinn Fein was whipping up parade tensions, declassified files reveal

Escalating parading disputes in the 1990s were in large part due to Sinn Fein orchestrating protests, the NIO believed.

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State Papers: NIO’s polling and focus groups made it nervous of support for Good Friday Agreement

A week before the Good Friday Agreement was signed, the Northern Ireland Office was nervous about whether a majority ...

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Whistleblower vet: I don’t think I will ever get justice for being forced out of my job

The Stormont vet hounded out of her job for attempting to prevent animal suffering and potential fraud has said she h...

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Sam McBride: Principles abandoned, statements disavowed - Sinn Féin will do whatever it takes to ...

If the Sinn Féin which might soon lead Ireland’s government had been around in the 1970s, it would have been denounce...

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Sam McBride: Principles abandoned, statements disavowed - Sinn Féin will do whatever it takes to ...

If the Sinn Féin which might soon lead Ireland’s government had been around in the 1970s, it would have been denounce...

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Mystery over missing files ‘whitewash’ as not one of 650 declassified Downing Street files relate...

The Government has failed to explain why not a single file relating to three years of Downing Street activity is abou...

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Sam McBride: Nationalism is losing the battle against direct rule... but that doesn’t mean unioni...

In the months after the Good Friday Agreement, ministers and officials wondered if they should create a mechanism for...

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Mystery over missing files as not one of 650 declassified Downing Street files relates to Ireland...

The Government has failed to explain why not a single file relating to three years of Downing Street activity is abou...

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David Trimble aide’s 1999 row with Irish News over concerns it had ‘demonised’ him

One of David Trimble’s special advisers told the head of the Civil Service he had employed a solicitor related to the...

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