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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Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Independent

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  • Northern Ireland

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Trimble spad said he used solicitor related to Irish News owner in hope it would help secure retr...

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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David Trimble spad said he used solicitor related to Irish News owner in hope it would help secur...

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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Sam McBride: State Papers: Six things we learned from the 1999 files declassified in London

1 Tony Blair became exasperated with Mo Mowlam over her determination to liberalise the drugs laws despite opposition...

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Sam McBride: State papers: Bush administration ‘not at all interested in NI’, Downing Street quic...

George W Bush’s disinterest in Northern Ireland was not purely because of his focus on the ‘War on Terror’ but preced...

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Sam McBride: State papers: Doctor struck off for cover-up after child’s death accused parents of ...

A senior doctor who was recently struck off for a cover-up following the death of a child claimed parents were being ...

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Sam McBride: State Papers: Clinton’s own man in London urged Major to be forthright with Presiden...

The US Ambassador told John Major the British were “too polite” about how they expressed their stance on Northern Ire...

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Sam McBride: State Papers: Secret meeting - Alliance proposed a watering down of Agreement to get...

The Alliance Party quietly proposed ditching part of the Good Friday Agreement in an attempt to help David Trimble ke...

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State papers: Belfast doctor who was struck off for child’s death cover-up accused parents of tel...

A senior doctor who was recently struck off for a cover-up following the death of a child claimed parents were being ...

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Sam McBride: Decisions over what not to release in State Papers aren’t always correct… it seems t...

When government files from 1998 were declassified a year ago, there was great expectation about what they would revea...

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Omagh bomb: Hospital’s persistent refusal to accept offers of help left doctor ‘at a loss’

Omagh’s hospital inexplicably refused multiple offers of help in the hours after the bombing of the town, a senior do...

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Drumcree: How murder of the three little Quinn boys brought people to their senses

The final Drumcree crisis involved fears loyalists could cut the electricity supply, hundreds of damaged vehicles, 25...

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Labour shadow secretary of state ‘misled US Embassy over British policy’, declassified papers show

Labour’s shadow secretary of state grossly misrepresented British government policy on Northern Ireland to the US Emb...

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