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: Nationalist parties ‘opposed to Assembly meeting at Stormont’

Sinn Fein told the government in 1998 that it was “totally opposed” to the Assembly meeting at Stormont for symbolic ...

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State Papers: Suggestion that Gerry Adams be invited to London Cenotaph service was discreetly bl...

A suggestion by Mo Mowlam that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness might be invited to attend the national Remembrance ...

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State Papers: Northern Ireland pandemic plan feared rapid spread as China opened up

Officials considering the possibility of an influenza pandemic in the late 1990s expected to have months to prepare f...

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State Papers: Military memo said soldiers guarding Queen were each given five live rounds during ...

Soldiers who formed the ceremonial guard for the Queen’s Coronation visit to Northern Ireland in 1953 were each given...

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State Papers: Jim Molyneaux pulled the strings with other MPs opposed to Agreement, warned David ...

Former Ulster Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux was “pulling the strings” with Jeffrey Donaldson and other UUP MPs oppose...

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State Papers: Northern Ireland grammar school tried to keep secret parts of report into notorious...

The board of governors of a leading grammar school attempted to keep secret parts of a devastating report into their ...

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State Papers: Queen’s food choices, speech preference, and how rationing restricted her meat orde...

A request by the Queen’s representative in Northern Ireland for additional food under the post-war rationing system w...

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State Papers: Little optimism for peace in the run-up to Good Friday accord

Just a month before the Good Friday Agreement, private Northern Ireland Office (NIO) research into public attitudes i...

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Sam McBride: Public release of eight years of Irish files has brought an unseasonal blizzard upon us

Most of us only get to peer into the heart of government from afar. As journalists, we can quiz ministers and officia...

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Sam McBride: Nervy unionists know Boris can’t soften an Irish Sea border forever as Lord Frost re...

The sheer scale of Brexit has transfixed both its supporters and its opponents. Withdrawing from an institution so de...

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Sam McBride: Hospital official told staff regulator gave it a ‘gift’ by not revealing criticism

Four months ago, a team of inspectors arrived unannounced at a small hospital for extremely vulnerable patients in Lo...

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Sam McBride: If we tolerate the paramilitaries, are we surrendering our children’s futures?

Eight months ago, I stood for hours in rain and smoke just off Belfast’s Shankill Road. As darkness fell and an orche...

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