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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A January Stormont election is increasingly hard to avoid – and entails huge risks for DUP

After a visit from Sinn Féin’s vice president last week, Cobh and Harbour Chamber posted online that “First Minister ...

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The mysterious goings-on in Mid and East Antrim Borough Council – A fire, politicians misled, was...

Almost two years ago, a suspicious fire damaged the old fish factory in Glenarm, a prime development site which North...

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Liz Truss: I've no regrets over NI Protocol support, we needed to get Brexit done

Liz Truss has said she does not regret voting for the Northern Ireland Protocol that she now says is disastrous, sugg...

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Sam McBride: Great paradox of Article 16 incident is that it gave the NI Protocol some breathing ...

Tomorrow, MPs will vote for the first time on the legislation which would shred most of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

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Sam McBride: How our questions about lucrative contracts tore council apart

Five months ago on a Friday afternoon, something extraordinary happened in Northern Ireland’s most dysfunctional coun...

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Peter Dixon: Queen’s University ‘pauses’ honorary degree for Stormont scandal figure after Belfas...

Queen’s University has “paused” an honorary degree it chose to award to someone involved in a Stormont scandal after ...

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Arc21: Top civil servant tried to persuade minister to reverse Mallusk incinerator refusal after ...

A senior civil servant vehemently opposed Nichola Mallon taking a decision which refused planning permission for the ...

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DAERA breaks silence on why Kilroot power station was allowed to exceed emissions limits

Edwin Poots’ Stormont department has said the order allowing Kilroot power station to exceed its emissions limits was...

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Sam McBride: History teaches us that sometimes we must break free of its bindings

In the long and bloody centuries of sectarian conflict in the northeast of this island, the history books can ascribe...

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Sam McBride: Why were the words uttered by Martin McGuinness in Stormont in 1998 judged today too...

We now take for granted that what is said in Parliament or the Northern Ireland Assembly is freely available to read ...

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Northern Ireland firms face being kicked out of EU single market if Protocol Bill becomes law, wa...

Northern Irish firms will almost certainly lose access to the EU single market if Boris Johnson’s legislation to tear...

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British goods going to Northern Ireland will always require more paperwork, says EU’s Šefčovič

The EU will not accept the UK’s suggestion that goods crossing the Irish Sea to stay in Northern Ireland should do so...

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