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
about 1 month ago
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Just hours from arrest… Sir Jeffrey attends Easter service

In his final public sighting as DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was at Stormont for a Christian Easter service.

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about 1 month ago
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NIO's hidden secrets uncovered by the Belfast Telegraph: Ulster Resistance, IRA intelligence and ...

For years, secrets which should have been opened to the public of Northern Ireland have instead been hidden from us.

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about 1 month ago
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Gavin Robinson the new leader of the Dysfunctional Unionist Party... but deeper power lies elsewhere

In many respects, Gavin Robinson and Jeffrey Donaldson are very different.

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about 1 month ago
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Martin McGuinness, the CIA, Mossad… and the extraordinary 50-year disappearance of a compromising...

An astonishing story involving the CIA, Mossad, and the disappearance of a compromising film for half a century raise...

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about 1 month ago
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Michael McDowell could enter the frame as a major player in border poll

The conventional reading of post-partition Irish history emphasises the significance of certain key moments: Bunreach...

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about 1 month ago
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There has been a London power grab over Irish Sea border - why haven't DUP or Sinn Fein opposed it?

Three days ago, a remarkable Westminster power grab took place — but the DUP and Sinn Fein were in complete acquiesce...

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about 2 months ago
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If St Patrick came to Ireland now, he might not be as welcome as the festivities in his name suggest

Were Saint Patrick to come to Ireland today, he’d be nowhere near as welcome as the festivities in his name suggest. ...

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about 2 months ago
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Stormont thinks we want free stuff – and now we’re going to pay for it with our health

In less than two months, anyone with a legitimate reason to be at a hospital can by law park there for free — but no ...

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about 2 months ago
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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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about 2 months ago
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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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about 2 months ago
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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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about 2 months ago
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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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