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

850 Articles
5 months ago
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Queen personally intervened to ensure Irish passport holders from NI got to Buckingham Palace gar...

The Queen requested that those invited to summer garden parties at Buckingham Palace should include Irish passport ho...

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5 months ago
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Catholic teacher investigated by the RUC on basis of anonymous note

An 80-year-old file from the Second World War which has just been declassified reveals the alarm within Stormont caus...

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5 months ago
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Stormont releasing fewer files under law it passed to supposedly make itself more transparent

Despite claiming to love transparency, Stormont is getting more secretive, with a dramatic decrease in the number of ...

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5 months ago
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State papers: IRA was evenly split on peace process just months before ceasefire

Just eight months before the IRA’s first major ceasefire in 1994, intelligence showed there was a “close to 50/50 spl...

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5 months ago
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Republic is idling in neutrality – but if the world grows less stable, Ireland will grow less wea...

Moral consistency can carry a high price. As Christ was seized by Roman soldiers, he told his disciples to lay down t...

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5 months ago
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Killing Edgar: The IRA murder of Edgar Graham

Law lecturer Edgar Graham was gunned down by the IRA in broad daylight at Queen’s University on December 7, 1983. Sam...

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Fifty years after a mass strike brought down Stormont, another hopes to bring it back — or could ...

Half a century after a mass strike toppled devolved government in Northern Ireland, a mass strike might restore devol...

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5 months ago
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Sellout posters unnerved the DUP because the party is obviously horse-trading sea border stance f...

The DUP is stalling on a deal, irritating those who want to see devolved government back by Christmas – but that’s no...

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5 months ago
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NI farmer charged with handling proceeds of huge cannabis factory yards from his front door

A farmer who told the Belfast Telegraph he was “really annoyed” that the police weren’t doing enough to find the crim...

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5 months ago
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A DUP founder and an ex-UDA man are both thinking the previously unthinkable: Irish unity might work

In the undergrowth of unionism, something is stirring. It’s still only a few rustling leaves rather than a stampede, ...

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5 months ago
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Jayne Brady was brought in to fix the Civil Service… but WhatsApp issue shows lessons of RHI have...

Back when Northern Ireland was governed by ministers, Arlene Foster and her special adviser devised a means of commun...

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6 months ago
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Jimmy Savile was a paedophile – but I could be jailed for saying that, thanks to Stormont’s new law

Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. Those words have for years been accepted as uncontroversially factual — but now utteri...

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