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

939 Articles
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Police urged not to adopt 'lethal' Tasers in Ulster

TASER stun guns are potentially lethal and should not be adopted by the PSNI, prominent human rights advocates have c...

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More ambulances miss emergency response targets

BY SAM McBRIDE

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Man held as police quell a near-riot at designer outlet

A groundbreaking retail promotion - which attracted a half-mile queue and prompted a near riot - will be repeated, th...

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Classroom assistants start all out strike action

More than 3,000 classroom assistants began all out strike action today after efforts to broker a deal between managem...

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Iris goes on the warpath

An Ulster MP has told how she grabbed a yob by the scruff of the neck after he terrorised walkers on an idyllic cycle...

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Only three teams to clean up 136,000 drains in east Belfast

No more than three teams are working to clean east Belfast's 136,000 drains, Roads Service has confirmed.

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UN body blow for Causeway plan

Plans for a commercial Giant's Causeway visitor centre have suffered a blow from the United Nations body in charge of...

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'All is not well with policing', warns minister

An Ulster minister has welcomed a PSNI decision to finally examine photos of children vandalising his church, but war...

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Unesco backs Causeway plan says developer at centre of row

The businessman embroiled in a public row over who should build a visitor centre at the Giant's Causeway has said the...

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Air disaster: Ulster man feared dead

A young Ulster man was last night feared to be one of the 88 people killed in yesterday's horrific plane crash on the...

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Derry family fear Aaron was killed in plane crash

An Ulster family were last night desperately hoping their son survived a horrific plane crash on the other side of th...

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Youths attack centre during DPP meeting

Youths have attacked a community centre while a District Policing Partnership (DPP) meeting took place inside.

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