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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State Papers: Stormont knew in 1996 Belfast air quality was poor - but told us otherwise

Stormont’s Department of the Environment told the Belfast Telegraph in 1996 that air quality in Belfast was generally...

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State papers: Tory minister told civil servants to do as little as possible on EU environment law

A Tory minister told officials to do as little as possible on implementing an EU law to protect the environment — but...

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State papers: Assembly debate report altered after DUP’s Peter Robinson threated to sue

An edition of the official Hansard record of what was said in the Assembly Chamber had to retrospectively remove some...

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State papers: Part of confidential NIO assessment of Sammy Wilson stays under wraps

Sections of a confidential NIO personality note on Sammy Wilson have not been declassified along with other files, an...

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State Papers: Terms of border poll discussed by Sinn Fein at private meeting

Four days before the Good Friday Agreement was signed, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness privately pressed the govern...

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State Papers: David Trimble told officials that Seamus Mallon didn’t want an Irish language body

David Trimble “took great delight” in telling the Irish government that Seamus Mallon thought a cross-border body to ...

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Sam McBride: A Sinn Fein taoiseach could hurt, not help, chances of a united Ireland

While there seems no immediate prospect of an Irish general election, and no guarantee that the outcome would propel ...

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Sam McBride: Civil servants saw from the outset in 1998 that Stormont was built on sand

A century ago, as Northern Ireland’s governmental institutions were built from scratch, members of the fledgling Nort...

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State Papers: In 1998, NIO considered flying Irish Tricolour on government buildings in Northern ...

The NIO examined the possibility of not flying the Union Flag at all on government buildings in Northern Ireland — or...

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Why 31 files from 1998 still remain closed to public scrutiny after two decades

Some 31 files from 1998 remain fully closed at the Public Record Office in Belfast and have not even been partially d...

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State Papers: Sinn Fein played down dissident threat months before Omagh bombing

Just months before the Real IRA bombed Omagh in 1998, Sinn Fein complained to the government that it was taking the t...

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Jeffrey Donaldson pledged not to make life difficult for the Parades Commission

Jeffrey Donaldson told the Secretary of State that his party did not plan to make life difficult for the Parades Comm...

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