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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910 Articles
6 months
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PSNI deputy chief constable’s future uncertain as neither of two new employers will say he’s join...

There is confusion over the future of PSNI deputy chief constable Mark Hamilton after neither of the two bodies to wh...

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AA tears up OAP’s car insurance ‘because he lives in NI’

The AA has cancelled an elderly motorist’s car insurance because he lives in Northern Ireland, but has denied it is p...

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PSNI Deputy Chief Constable ‘spared discipline months ago’ over unlawful decision

The Policing Board decided three months ago not to discipline PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, it has been ...

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6 months
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Almost eight years after Brexit vote, we’re still not even in foothills of real debate about a un...

Decades from now, historians might look back and wonder at how little Irish unity campaigners made of their unprecede...

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6 months
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Belfast-Dublin rail link set to be transformed within months — with far grander plans ahead

It’s a cross-border train link that began two years after the Second World War and whose health has been a crude baro...

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NI Enterprise train: Guaranteed seat booking and double capacity as part of Translink plans

Northern passengers will be able to book seats on the Enterprise train by the summer, and an hourly service between B...

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Lough Neagh’s fish contain toxins but are safe to eat if handled properly, tests show

Fish caught in Lough Neagh a few months ago contained toxins produced by the cyanobacteria which turned the water gre...

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SDLP’s first Opposition day at Stormont splits Executive as DUP and SF join forces to defeat refo...

In its first day of business at Stormont, the Assembly’s new Opposition succeeded in splitting the Executive, as part...

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PSNI disciplines Ormeau Road officer despite High Court verdict — prompting internal dismay

One of the two young PSNI constables involved in a controversial incident on the Ormeau Road three years ago has been...

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6 months
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Chief vet Robert Huey’s complaint against Belfast Telegraph thrown out by independent regulator

Northern Ireland’s chief vet has attempted to have the Belfast Telegraph censured for our coverage of him — but his c...

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Who’s the former hurler from West Cork shaping policy for the UK’s next prime minister?

Unlike the second Earl of Shelburne and the first Duke of Wellington, Keir Starmer will not be a British prime minist...

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Stormont’s populism is worse than ever – and more dangerous than ever, as lives depend on funding

It’s a measure of what we now accept as normal that two Stormont departments — Education and Communities — were liter...

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