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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Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Independent

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  • Northern Ireland

844 Articles
1 day ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

In defence of leaking: Sometimes you have a right to know, and we’ve a duty to tell you

For three weeks, the Covid Inquiry has sat in Belfast to examine Stormont’s response to the pandemic.

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2 days ago
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In full: The 1,000+ DUP WhatsApp messages published and then deleted by the Covid Inquiry

Here are the more than 1,000 internal text messages between some of the DUP's most senior figures which were publishe...

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4 days ago
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More than 1,000 high-level DUP messages show party top brass mocking the Catholic Church, laughin...

More than 1,000 internal text messages between the DUP's most senior figures have been published by the Covid Inquiry...

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4 days ago
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A defiant Arlene Foster confronted with the hapless government over which she presided, admitting...

If anyone in the DUP was getting nostalgic for the days of Arlene Foster's leadership, today might have dispelled the...

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5 days ago
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Devastating examination of Michelle O’Neill leaves her flapping – and shows her evidence was misl...

Never in her 19-year career as a politician has Michelle O'Neill been as hopelessly at sea about a matter of such pro...

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5 days ago
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Only after some calculations on a piece of paper over deaths did Swann realise scale of crisis

Health Minister Robin Swann has said he only realised the true scale of the Covid pandemic days before lockdown when ...

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8 days ago
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Alarmingly, Covid Inquiry isn’t calling key witnesses, with not a single spad or PSNI officer to ...

The Covid Inquiry’s investigation of how Stormont handled the pandemic is now just days away from leaving Belfast, an...

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9 days ago
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NIO advised Brandon Lewis to talk up ‘excellent care’ for first NI Covid patient – despite being ...

The Northern Ireland Office advised the Secretary of State to tell the public that Northern Ireland’s first Covid pat...

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10 days ago
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We were cruel to ban people from mourning the dead during Covid, says emotional Edwin Poots

A deeply emotional Edwin Poots has said the Executive was "cruel" to ban the public from visiting graveyards during C...

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11 days ago
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SF minister admits she knew going to Bobby Storey funeral would undermine Covid effort

A senior Sinn Féin figure has admitted that she knew before attending veteran republican Bobby Storey's funeral that ...

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14 days ago
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Stormont official tried to destroy messages about Sue Gray BBC interview following ‘scary convers...

A BBC interview with Sue Gray where she dismissed claims she was a spy was 'unauthorised' and sparked fury, text mess...

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14 days ago
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Controversial ‘public history’ of the Troubles will be imperfect but has value which the savage d...

To what extent should academics work with government to unearth the secrets of the past? The question is at the heart...

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