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: Green manifesto strong on grand plans, but not on paying for them

From the first words in the Green Party manifesto — “we are in Code Red for humanity” – this is a document suffused w...

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Whistleblower scandal: head of Civil Service won’t intervene in vet row

The head of the Civil Service has refused to intervene in the scandal over an official who forced another civil serva...

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Nothing has changed in civil service, claims RHI whistleblower Janette O’Hagan

THE woman who repeatedly tried to raise the alarm about the RHI scandal has said she has been “dismayed and disgusted...

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Stormont’s former spin chief denounces ‘scandalous’ vet case

The man who for 15 years was the Executive’s most senior spin doctor has denounced the “scandalous behaviour” of some...

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SDLP’s Nichola Mallon ‘deeply concerned’ by civil service whistleblower’s treatment

The first Executive minister has broken ranks to criticise the treatment of a civil service whistleblower who was for...

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Civil servant who forced out whistleblower vet rewarded with promotion

A civil servant involved in hounding a whistleblower vet out of her job has been promoted to deputy chief vet — despi...

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NI Civil Service chief apologises to senior whistleblower vet hounded out of job

The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has issued an “unreserved apology” to a civil servant hounded out of h...

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Sam McBride: All is not yet lost for the DUP in tactical battle to beat Sinn Féin

Four weeks from today, the votes will be counted, and we will know whether a political party which does not want Nort...

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Sam McBride: It’s no surprise that Stormont’s lost... it can’t even agree a roadmap for ruling

As anyone who has started a diet or made a New Year’s resolution will know, deciding what you want to do is no guaran...

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Stormont department apologises and drops its legal challenge over whistleblower

A Stormont department has “unreservedly apologised” and abandoned its attempt to overturn a devastating industrial tr...

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Sam McBride: Michelle O’Neill’s priority shifting from a border poll is highly revealing

Michelle O’Neill’s response to a question on Irish unity on Tuesday was verging on the Augustinian: give me a border ...

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Sam McBride: Beating Sinn Fein will be hard, but dealing with what comes next will be harder for ...

Launching the DUP’s Assembly election campaign in a Dundonald cinema, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson described it gravely as “...

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