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

834 Articles
28 days ago
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Leo Varadkar praises Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly at meeting of North-South Minister...

In his last major engagement as Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar has praised the “very good impression” which the First and De...

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28 days ago
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Thefts linked to Belfast missile factory sparked fears loyalists were exporting secrets

A series of thefts linked to a Belfast missile factory caused the intervention of the Ministry of Defence and MI5, pr...

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about 1 month ago
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Emma Little-Pengelly’s father was ‘leading UDA man’ who was key to missiles-for-arms plot, MI5 be...

Despite his denials, secret documents discovered by the Belfast Telegraph show that the Government believed Noel Litt...

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about 1 month ago
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Rather than Britain plotting to murder Peter Robinson, as he claimed, officials worked to protect...

Contrary to Peter Robinson’s claim that the UK Government was hiring a mercenary to murder him after his ‘invasion’ o...

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about 1 month ago
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Garda officer saved Peter Robinson from being put in handcuffs and carted off to prison

A Garda officer saved Peter Robinson from being handcuffed and taken to Mountjoy Prison after a court appearance rela...

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about 1 month ago
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Trimble told SoS how ‘police officers waved their warrant cards at UUP representatives after they...

The reform of policing was more damaging to the UUP than the lack of IRA decommissioning, the UUP told the Government.

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about 1 month ago
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Sinn Fein undoubtedly stole votes when it beat SDLP in 2001 election, official believed

Sinn Féin “undoubtedly” stole votes in the 2001 General Election — the first time the party overtook the SDLP — the N...

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about 1 month ago
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Paisley ‘aware of DUP candidates’ paramilitary links’

Almost half of the DUP’s candidates for Newtownabbey Borough Council in 1993 had some links to loyalist paramilitaris...

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about 1 month ago
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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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about 1 month ago
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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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about 1 month ago
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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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about 1 month ago
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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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