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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834 Articles
2 months ago
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The ghost of Roger Casement is still beating on Britain’s door

It’s a work of captivating genius which conveys the entwined complexity and contradiction of Britain and Ireland’s lo...

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2 months ago
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NI has been key to shaping Keir Starmer... who as PM will be key to shaping NI’s future

A year from now, Sir Keir Starmer will almost certainly be Prime Minister. If rumours of a May 2 election are true, h...

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3 months ago
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Sinn Féin could revive NI’s fortunes with a move that would be a big shift for the party

On his first day as Ireland’s finance minister in 1957, James Ryan was given a stark message by his top civil servant...

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3 months ago
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Ten ways to judge if Stormont has really changed for better after two-year hiatus

A week ago the Assembly met for its first substantive session in two years. The speeches were mostly filled with opti...

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3 months ago
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Building work at Larne border post stepped up despite DUP deal as residents fear homes may be dam...

Work on the Larne border control post is pushing ahead despite last week’s DUP deal to return to Stormont.

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3 months ago
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It’s becoming clearer that Stormont’s route to getting more money is likely to involve us paying ...

If the new Executive does what it says, it’s going to be a real break with the past in one area — populism.

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3 months ago
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In unionism’s lofty citadel, there has been a revolution – but it might be purely symbolic

The Parliament Buildings sit on the top of a hill that dominates Belfast. James Craig, the leader of the ideology whi...

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3 months ago
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Despite the DUP’s Trumpian claims, this deal has embedded the sea border rather than removed it

So long, winding and wearisome has the road from Brexit been that it is easy to lose sight of where we’ve come from a...

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3 months ago
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Michelle O’Neill now using PSNI bodyguards – breaking Sinn Fein tradition

Michelle O’Neill has broken with republican tradition and is using PSNI bodyguards.

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3 months ago
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There’s an unusual risk for Jeffrey Donaldson, but not inside his party... it’s really with the TUV

As important as it was for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to win over his party to restoring Stormont, that was never where hi...

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3 months ago
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This is more than the humiliation of Donaldson, but the collapse of the DUP’s remaining reputatio...

What unfolded on Monday night was not just the humiliation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by a man he thought he could outs...

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3 months ago
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Donaldson’s deal has been sitting there for six weeks — so why won’t he show it to his party?

The DUP is alive with speculation and suspicion about what Sir Jeffrey Donaldson plans to do at tonight’s party execu...

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