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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914 Articles
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Censored: The online criticism Sinn Féin is trying to hide

For more than three months, Sinn Féin has been quietly censoring criticism of the party — and even some praise. Analy...

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7 days
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Lough Neagh can now look like a rural paradise, but beneath the surface its crisis is deepening

When I visited Lough Neagh a year ago, it was a scene of devastation. Returning this week, it appeared almost idyllic.

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Declassified files: Stormont officials told name of leading businessman 'set to be named' in catt...

A senior Stormont Department of Agriculture official who wrote the department's response to an EU fraud office enquir...

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How a tragic fire at NI church was seized on by the world’s leading conspiracy theorists

As darkness descended last Sunday, an inferno seriously damaged the Greenisland Church of Ireland building and comple...

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14 days
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Ulster’s Kingspan disgrace: Spineless response to Grenfell Inquiry shows rugby is more interested...

When Ulster Rugby renamed Ravenhill the Kingspan Stadium in 2014, there’s no evidence it knew the company was conscio...

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16 days
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How I fell victim to this online scam – and you should be wary of falling into the same trap

This is an extract from Uncovered with Sam McBride, a subscriber-only weekly newsletter from the Belfast Telegraph’s ...

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17 days
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Officials dismayed at NI special school’s approach to pupil who sexually abused nine-year-old boy

A senior education inspector was appalled at how a special school handled a pupil’s sexual abuse of much younger pupi...

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18 days
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First photographs of two men responsible for one of Europe’s largest illegal dumps

These are the first pictures of the criminals who made money from the vast illegal superdump at Mobuoy, where toxic m...

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20 days
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Sinn Fein has trapped itself in a hopelessly illogical position... and this time it can’t just bl...

To govern is to choose, as France’s former PM Pierre Mendes once observed. Though for years, Sinn Fein appeared to de...

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The number of inquests in NI has collapsed by almost 90% – and that’s dangerous as many unnatural...

Five months ago, a coroner outlined how the husband of the King's second cousin had killed himself.

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Colum Eastwood’s leadership of the SDLP wasn’t a triumph — but in time it might look more signifi...

When the veteran leader of Edwardian Irish nationalism was entering the final year of his life, he reflected morosely...

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Declassified files show NI’s future reformist PM ‘against nuclear plant in Catholic area’

The man who would become Northern Ireland’s key reformist Prime Minister repeatedly expressed alarm at a plan to buil...

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