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: Ex-UUP minister Dermot Nesbitt says unionism made major errors after 1921 and time i...

The Northern Ireland into which Dermot Nesbitt was born in 1947 was outwardly stable. The sacrifices of the Second Wo...

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Sam McBride: Ex-UUP minister Dermot Nesbitt says unionism made major errors after 1921 and time i...

The Northern Ireland into which Dermot Nesbitt was born in 1947 was outwardly stable. The sacrifices of the Second Wo...

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Dermot Nesbitt: 'Mandatory coalition has served its time' | The BelTel podcast

Ex-UUP minister Dermot Nesbitt has lived through – and been influential in – decades of tumultuous change.

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Public facing major bill for MLA pay-offs in winding-up of NI Assembly – on top of costs of new e...

Taxpayers face having to fund a new round of politician pay-offs and other costs if a fresh Assembly election is held.

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Sam McBride: Asking voters to go to the polls again may embolden DUP and make Northern Ireland Of...

On the day that Stormont’s new devolved Assembly first met in 1998, the perceptive journalist David McKittrick remark...

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Sam McBride: Putting car parks before patients: how our MLAs bungled the last sitting of a functi...

Seven months ago, a functioning Assembly sat for the final time. What transpired that day helps explain why so few be...

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Electric grid operator sacked trade unionist because of his political beliefs, tribunal told

A trade union official at the monopoly company critical to keeping the lights on in Northern Ireland has alleged that...

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Rishi Sunak’s earnest sobriety a break with the bungling of his predecessors — but he is a huge risk

There was a dramatic contrast between the earnest sobriety of Rishi Sunak and the haplessness of Theresa May, the bum...

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Senior vet Julian Henderson no longer in deputy chief role, but department is silent as to why

One of the senior civil servants involved in unlawfully hounding a government vet out of her job has lost his positio...

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Sam McBride: Rishi Sunak’s earnest sobriety a break with the bungling of his predecessors — but h...

There was a dramatic contrast between the earnest sobriety of Rishi Sunak and the haplessness of Theresa May, the bum...

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Sam McBride: Rishi Sunak remains enigmatic –but the manner of his ascent to the top shows how Bri...

Rishi Sunak’s stances on Northern Ireland are so slim as to be almost non-existent, yet he now inherits a crisis of g...

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Health trust paying rent on ‘five-star’ cancer patient accommodation that may never reopen

A health facility for cancer patients which opened a decade ago and involved £150,000 of charitable funds has not re-...

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