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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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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Keir Starmer’s competent monotony could halt Border poll progress

For two-and-a-half years, Keir Starmer has been leader of the British Labour Party; for two-and-a-half weeks it has b...

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Sam McBride: Friday’s Stormont ‘deadline’ is meaningless... the scarier truth is we are all out o...

For weeks the Northern Ireland Office has attempted to build a sense of crisis about what happens next Friday, threat...

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Sam McBride: Liz Truss’s disgraceful chapter in British politics shows the peril of pig-headed po...

Liz Truss departed Downing Street as she had inhabited it: Weakly, woodenly, arrogantly, haplessly, incoherently, unr...

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Change sees barrister Gavyn Cairns’ £50k fine go to legal profession, not public purse

The fine paid by a barrister found to have massively over-charged taxpayers for work which he didn’t do is not going ...

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Barrister who wrongly tried to get £400,000 from taxpayers can keep claiming Legal Aid, Stormont ...

Stormont’s Department of Justice has said that a barrister who billed taxpayers for hundreds of thousands of pounds o...

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Sam McBride: Barrister billed taxpayer for 29 hours of work in one day

A barrister who billed the taxpayer for 29 and a half hours of work in a single 24-hour day has been fined and suspen...

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Sam McBride: My meeting with Covid conspiracy pair spooked me more than paramilitaries

A year ago this week, I had the scariest meeting of my 16-year career as a journalist. It wasn’t with paramilitaries ...

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Sam McBride: My meeting with Covid conspiracy pair spooked me more than paramilitaries

A year ago this week, I had the scariest meeting of my 16-year career as a journalist. It wasn’t with paramilitaries ...

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Sam McBride: Bright idea might have unintended consequences on the electricity grid

In December, most people in Northern Ireland will wake up one day to find that their household has an extra £500 to s...

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Sam McBride: Bright idea might have unintended consequences on the electricity grid

In December, most people in Northern Ireland will wake up one day to find that their household has an extra £500 to s...

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Sam McBride: Electric heaters unintentionally encouraged by UK subsidies, straining a creaking el...

In December, most people in Northern Ireland will wake up one day to find that their household has an extra £500 to s...

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