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

844 Articles
7 months ago
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Once-lucrative RHI boiler can’t even be sold for £1 as hundreds drop out of bungled scheme

RHI boilers were once licences to print money – but now people are selling them at knock-down prices and one man is s...

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7 months ago
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Shifting border poll goalposts is so monumentally stupid it’s almost impossible

Steve Baker is not the first person to suggest that it would be better if Irish unity maybe should require a supermaj...

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7 months ago
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NI playwright Michael Cameron: ‘At the age of 36, I realised by mistake I was adopted... it was a...

Michael Cameron was 36 when a mundane bureaucratic procedure demolished what he believed to be the most elemental fac...

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7 months ago
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Beware a border poll dressed as a Trojan Horse

What if a border poll were more of a threat to Ireland than it is to Britain? To many people, whether nationalist or ...

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7 months ago
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Police Ombudsman and Department of Justice refuse to say if Ombudsman has offered to resign

The Police Ombudsman’s Office has refused to say whether Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson has offered to resign.

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7 months ago
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Hundreds of NI vets to strike for a week, disrupting abattoirs and Irish Sea border checks

A week-long strike by hundreds of government vets could cripple parts of the Northern Ireland economy and dramaticall...

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7 months ago
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Facebook is suppressing reputable journalism – and cashing in as a result

A few months ago, I found myself on a stage with a senior figure from Facebook. The audience included leading politic...

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7 months ago
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Stormont’s draconian new law would have criminalised news reports that exposed Kincora scandal

Days before it fell last year, Stormont passed a law which if it had been in place earlier would have made some of th...

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7 months ago
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NI vets’ body defends having controversial chief vet as guest of honour after forcing out of whis...

The North of Ireland Veterinary Association has been criticised for making chief vet Robert Huey a guest of honour at...

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7 months ago
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Desperate Tories experiment with government by conspiracy theory

The UK Conservative party is in a dark place, and it’s likely to get darker. The party of Churchill and Thatcher — th...

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7 months ago
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‘Exhausted, fed-up and highly stressed’: The day John Hume came close to packing it all in

After three decades where it remained a secret known only to a handful of people, a new book reveals that John Hume w...

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7 months ago
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‘I was the last person John Hume had his eyes open for’… former SDLP leader’s carer tells of fina...

The young care assistant who looked after John Hume in his final months when the pandemic prevented his family from s...

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