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
6 months ago
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Northern Ireland society is in deep trouble - the people suffering as a result of chaos are rewar...

Last Wednesday morning, my daughter couldn’t go to school because the teachers in Northern Ireland were on strike. Th...

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6 months ago
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Killed for his convictions: Edgar Graham, the brilliant lost leader of unionism, was slain 40 yea...

Late on the morning of December 7, 1983, students and lecturers were coming and going on Queen’s University’s campus,...

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6 months ago
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Stormont law which protects suspected paedophiles criticised by abuse charity

The main body which trains UK churches in how to spot and prevent child abuse has expressed dismay at a new Stormont ...

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6 months ago
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DUP’s absence has done so much damage, Donaldson needs a lot to show for it but likelihood is he ...

Above a photo of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the Belfast Telegraph’s front page headline yesterday was stark: “We’re in no...

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6 months ago
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For Sinn Féin, war crimes exist only in the eye of the beholder

Is deliberately killing civilians a war crime? Not necessarily, Sinn Féin seems to think. If it happened on this isla...

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6 months ago
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Claims top cleric sexually abused and mutilated victims — but is now protected by new Stormont law

A senior Protestant cleric had a secret life in which he sexually assaulted young girls and sadistically mutilated th...

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6 months ago
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Keeping Chris Heaton-Harris in cabinet is inexplicable after his behaviour – unless it’s not abou...

Whatever Rishi Sunak’s reason for keeping Chris Heaton-Harris in post, it can’t have been because a single person in ...

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6 months ago
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Civil servants face increased calls to restore free eye and dental care for vulnerable

Pressure is mounting on civil servants or the Secretary of State to urgently act over a failure to make a technical c...

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6 months ago
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Sinn Féin needs to shed its thin skin and stop running to the lawyers

Two separate events on either side of the Border last Tuesday could entail a crucial moment of overreach by Sinn Féin.

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6 months ago
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Unearthed after 50 years, document shows that Paisley wanted swoops on loyalist extremists

Myths can be born in an instant but persist for millennia. How the Troubles started and how they escalated is the sub...

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6 months ago
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Civil servants can act to save free eye and dental care, but are refusing to do so

A technical change to legislation which could stop people needlessly going blind and losing teeth could be made by ci...

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6 months ago
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Poll numbers make Donaldson look strong – in reality, they expose his weakness

Rarely can a political leader have been as disappointed at seeing their party’s support increase.

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