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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Department refuses to release information after Tamara Bronckaers tribunal case

After being asked five times for a copy of a civil servant’s register of interests, a Stormont department has refused...

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Brexit protocol: Northern Ireland set for 'problems and confusion' with UK and EU clash over stat...

The UK Government has admitted that “problems and confusion” could flow from the creation of two different legal regi...

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Give Stormont the power to set income tax in NI, Fiscal Commission recommends

A body set up by Finance Minister Conor Murphy to examine the case for devolving tax powers to Stormont is to recomme...

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Sam McBride: Secretive and defensive, Northern Ireland Civil Service remains profoundly flawed in...

If there’s one thing civil servants love, it’s bureaucracy: reports, strategies, committees, consultations, organisat...

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EU law which relates to Northern Ireland not being properly scrutinised, says committee

Neither the UK Government nor the EU are doing enough to scrutinise and explain the mountain of EU law which applies ...

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Clarity on trade rules has been lost deep in the Northern Ireland Protocol labyrinth

There was a time — just a year ago — when it was received wisdom that the Northern Ireland Protocol was a transitory ...

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Sam McBride: Pick and mix protocol isn’t just a nightmare for local businesses... democracy suffe...

A month ago, a Northern Irish lorry carrying New Zealand and Australian lamb was stopped at the Irish Sea border in B...

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Derry hospital ordered to improve as regulator says it’s unclear patients were able to eat and dr...

A Northern Ireland hospital which treats extremely vulnerable patients has finally been ordered to improve by the reg...

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Northern Ireland's Kilroot power station seeking to ditch Russian coal — but Stormont says no

One of Northern Ireland’s main power stations wants to stop buying Russian coal — but is forced to do so by Stormont’...

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Up to £660m of RHI money may go unspent by Stormont

Stormont is on course to waste at least £420m — and perhaps as much as £660m — over the next 20 years due to its fail...

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MLAs who tried to cut rents in Northern Ireland will actually force them up, claims estate agents...

A body which represents estate agents has claimed that private rents in Northern Ireland are likely to increase as a ...

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New Civil Service chief silent over whistleblower case

The new head of the Civil Service has declined to say whether it is acceptable for a Stormont department to attempt t...

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