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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Head of NI Civil Service now sets up review of whistleblower scandal – but no mention of immediat...

The Head of the Civil Service on Friday night moved to set up an independent review of the appalling treatment of a w...

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Tamara Bronckaers: We will look at conduct of our staff if there is a complaint, says vet regulator

The body which has the power to stop vets from practising has said that it will examine the conduct of Northern Irela...

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Sam McBride: Alliance manifesto talks tough on Stormont reform

If opponents of the Good Friday Agreement expect to ever see the deal radically altered, they probably expect that ch...

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Vet scandal: Department of Agriculture chiefs refusing to front up as they send junior official o...

Bosses in Stormont’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs have run away from scrutiny over the wh...

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Vet Scandal Revealed: Taxpayers paid extra £250k due to civil service decision to appeal

Stormont is remaining silent about who took the decision to appeal the devastating judgment in favour of whistleblowe...

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Michelle O’Neill declines to endorse the man appointed chief vet while she was DAERA minister

Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill has refused to say that she has confidence in Northern Ireland’s chief vet, Robert Huey ...

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Sam McBride: Sinn Fein election manifesto contains one page of costs – which is already the flims...

The first thing you notice about Sinn Fein’s manifesto is that it’s much flimsier than those of rival parties. At 20 ...

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Vet scandal: ‘Sheep were fighting for hay and some pens were overcrowded’

It was after Tamara Bronckaers had attempted to get Stormont’s agriculture department to investigate animal moves bei...

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Whistleblower Tamara Bronckaers exposes top civil servants’ conduct: ‘My life was hell’

For a year, Tamara Bronckaers tried to warn senior Stormont colleagues about animal suffering and abuse of the livest...

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Sam McBride: There is something rotten in the Northern Ireland Civil Service

Imagine refusing the clear instruction of your boss, who specifies that he doesn’t want you to do something you know ...

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Sam McBride: Brexit protocol mess causing ructions in a febrile Whitehall, leaked emails reveal

Away from the Orange and Green arguments about the Irish Sea border, Whitehall emails and documentation leaked to the...

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Vet scandal: Stormont pays out £1m but still insists it did nothing wrong to whistleblower

The Stormont department that hounded a whistleblower out of her job for exposing animal suffering and potential fraud...

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