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

Focus Areas

  • Northern Ireland

910 Articles
5 months
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IRA was short of cash after 1994 ceasefire and ‘had no strategy’ to replenish funds

Two months after the first IRA ceasefire in 1994, Britain’s top intelligence unit had evidence the Provos needed mone...

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Robinson privately briefed NIO and worked to manoeuvre Paisley into talks

Peter Robinson privately briefed the NIO on his desire to re-enter political talks in the early 1990s and worked with...

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Intelligence showed IRA leader in charge of decommissioning was secretly in the US looking for gu...

The IRA leader in charge of decommissioning was secretly in America under an illegal name looking to import new guns ...

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Republican icon or tout? Why Martin McGuinness’s legacy has never been so uncertain

What would it mean if Martin McGuinness was exposed as a long-standing informer at the top of the Provisional IRA?

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Just hours from arrest… Sir Jeffrey attends Easter service

In his final public sighting as DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was at Stormont for a Christian Easter service.

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NIO's hidden secrets uncovered by the Belfast Telegraph: Ulster Resistance, IRA intelligence and ...

For years, secrets which should have been opened to the public of Northern Ireland have instead been hidden from us.

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Gavin Robinson the new leader of the Dysfunctional Unionist Party... but deeper power lies elsewhere

In many respects, Gavin Robinson and Jeffrey Donaldson are very different.

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6 months
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Martin McGuinness, the CIA, Mossad… and the extraordinary 50-year disappearance of a compromising...

An astonishing story involving the CIA, Mossad, and the disappearance of a compromising film for half a century raise...

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Michael McDowell could enter the frame as a major player in border poll

The conventional reading of post-partition Irish history emphasises the significance of certain key moments: Bunreach...

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There has been a London power grab over Irish Sea border - why haven't DUP or Sinn Fein opposed it?

Three days ago, a remarkable Westminster power grab took place — but the DUP and Sinn Fein were in complete acquiesce...

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If St Patrick came to Ireland now, he might not be as welcome as the festivities in his name suggest

Were Saint Patrick to come to Ireland today, he’d be nowhere near as welcome as the festivities in his name suggest. ...

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Stormont thinks we want free stuff – and now we’re going to pay for it with our health

In less than two months, anyone with a legitimate reason to be at a hospital can by law park there for free — but no ...

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