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: Jeffrey Donaldson has turned down three vacant MLA seats since becoming DUP leader, ...

A key element of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s campaign to be DUP leader – indeed, one of the few areas in which he differe...

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We are insulated from Russia’s war on Ukraine, but not its effects

When Ukraine’s children are being shot dead in the street and its pregnant women bombed during labour, worrying about...

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Sam McBride: Basic, inexcusable failures mean that recyclable items are being dumped

Consider these three facts: six months ago Belfast City Council started examining a four-day week for its staff while...

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Taxpayer funds chief vet’s bid to quash verdict over sacking of whistleblower

A Stormont department is using taxpayers’ money to attempt to overturn a devastating judgment that raised serious con...

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The hidden RHI scandal of how Stormont wasted £90m in green energy subsidies

The Renewable Heat Incentive shut to new entrants six years ago, yet still it hangs unwelcomely over Stormont’s effor...

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Floundering council’s £1,272-a-day boss quits just days into role – putting fourth person in char...

A man brought in at a cost of £1,272 a day to head up a struggling Northern Ireland council has left his job — just d...

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Kerbside boxes for every home to sort recycling ‘could save £12m a year’ – and clean up the curre...

In the thundering heart of the facility where half of Northern Ireland’s waste is sorted for recycling, the scale of ...

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Northern Ireland-wide 10% rent cut halted after Sinn Féin U-turns to vote down proposal

Within the space of 12 days, the Assembly has bizarrely U-turned on a new law to give every private renter a 10% rent...

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Sam McBride: Decision to pull the plug on Russia Today’s propaganda is a profound error

Last week, Vladimir Putin’s favourite global news channel dropped off TV screens across the UK, Ireland, and much of ...

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Sam McBride: MLAs ‘mistakenly’ vote to force 10% cut on rents in latest Stormont shambles

MLAs have voted, seemingly by mistake, to change the law in a way which would cut housing rents for every private ren...

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Days into £1,272-a-day job, NI’s most expensive council boss goes off sick, plunging council into...

Northern Ireland’s most chaotic council is leaderless again after the man who took over just last week at a cost of £...

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Alliance tops donations list thanks to ex-member’s legacy, but Sinn Fein still NI’s wealthiest party

The Alliance Party got more notifiable donations than any other Northern Ireland political party in the final months ...

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