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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Sam McBride: History and film on horror of the Troubles tells us a united Ireland achieved by bot...

Why do unionists still oppose Irish unity when the reasons their predecessors gave for opposing home rule — economic,...

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Sam McBride: History and film on horror of the Troubles tell us a united Ireland achieved by botc...

Why do unionists still oppose Irish unity when the reasons their predecessors gave for opposing home rule — economic,...

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Sam McBride: History and film on horror of the Troubles tells us a united Ireland achieved by bot...

Why do unionists still oppose Irish unity when the reasons their predecessors gave for opposing home rule — economic,...

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Sam McBride: PSNI broke intelligence rules to spy on its own officers – and now taxpayers must fu...

After six years of denial, the PSNI yesterday admitted that it broke intelligence-gathering rules to spy on its own s...

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Chaotic NI council discussing offloading £7.5m Gobbins attraction and lifting bins once in three ...

Northern Ireland’s most dysfunctional council is examining shutting public toilets and offloading The Gobbins, a majo...

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NI rates bills are likely to rise steeply next spring for two related reasons

For those prudent souls who budget carefully months into the future, they should set aside considerably more money th...

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Sam McBride: We cannot slam door in the faces of Ukrainians facing death

Tens of thousands of people across Ireland will be mourning this Christmas; they’ll be mourning a way of life, a home...

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Sam McBride: Absurdly, our civil servants are being made quasi-kings — all-powerful and unremovable

Northern Ireland is now being governed by unelected civil servants who have been given unprecedented power, cannot be...

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Sinn Fein ex-minister silent on why she sat on housing report for weeks

A former Sinn Fein minister has refused to say why for weeks she sat on a politically embarrassing housing report, wh...

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Prosecutors considering third file from Nama deal detectives linked to Ten Square hotel

The PPS has for months been considering a third file from detectives in the National Crime Agency (NCA) who investiga...

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Sam McBride: Housing crisis will not be solved by Sinn Féin’s cynical populism

Nine months ago, a bafflingly absurd scene unfolded in the Northern Ireland Assembly, followed by a less public seque...

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Sam McBride: Obscure London judgment reveals how Nama dealmakers are now at each other’s throats

One of Northern Ireland’s most lurid scandals had almost vanished from public view — but now a judgment in London’s H...

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