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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Chief vet sanctioned costly appeal against verdict that was highly critical of him

Northern Ireland’s chief vet personally authorised the expenditure of taxpayers’ money in an attempt to overturn a ju...

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Official told DAERA’s Robert Huey and Julian Henderson: You’re a credit to your profession – desp...

A civil servant gushingly told two colleagues they were “a credit to your profession” after the two men — who had for...

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Vet scandal probe still to be finished months after launch

Four months after the head of the Civil Service announced an independent review of the appalling treatment of a whist...

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Sam McBride: If there was no alternative to IRA violence, then did the IRA – on its own terms – s...

It’s easy to support a war when it has long ended; it’s far more physically and morally terrifying to support killing...

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Energy crisis: Feeling good about ourselves won’t keep us warm in winter

To most people, energy policy is stultifying — until the lights go out, the gas doesn’t come on, or letters pile up o...

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Sam McBride: Unionist unity came whisker-close at secret talks, but Tories pulled out – now it co...

Early on a chilly Sunday morning in January 2010, two groups of senior politicians set off from Belfast. They travell...

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A day after unity for David Trimble, MLAs are divided as DUP again vetoes Assembly

A day after uniting in unanimous praise of David Trimble, MLAs returned to more familiar disputatious ways — with the...

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Sam McBride: As MLAs unite, the DUP laments David Trimble - the man it once denounced as a traitor

David Trimble was the man who lost some of his friends, lost his seat and saw his party lose its position at the head...

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Sam McBride: Dignified Presbyterian funeral farewell for David Trimble, a statesman of rare abili...

Edward Carson was buried in St Anne’s Cathedral after a state funeral, his remains having been borne to Belfast on a ...

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David Trimble: Buried in simplicity without pomp or flags, former Northern Ireland first minister...

Unadorned by the Union Flag but instead wreathed in the white flowers of peace, the coffin holding David Trimble’s ea...

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Sam McBride: Trimble knew securing the rights of his own sect meant securing a future that was no...

What drove the enigmatic David Trimble to sacrifice his career and his party to secure and maintain the only lasting ...

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Sam McBride: If even David Trimble opposed NI Protocol, how can EU play the Good Friday card?

The clamour of praise for David Trimble — from Washington and Dublin to the Falls Road and former unionist foes — und...

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