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
4 months ago
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Republic is idling in neutrality – but if the world grows less stable, Ireland will grow less wea...

Moral consistency can carry a high price. As Christ was seized by Roman soldiers, he told his disciples to lay down t...

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4 months ago
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Killing Edgar: The IRA murder of Edgar Graham

Law lecturer Edgar Graham was gunned down by the IRA in broad daylight at Queen’s University on December 7, 1983. Sam...

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5 months ago
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Fifty years after a mass strike brought down Stormont, another hopes to bring it back — or could ...

Half a century after a mass strike toppled devolved government in Northern Ireland, a mass strike might restore devol...

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5 months ago
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Sellout posters unnerved the DUP because the party is obviously horse-trading sea border stance f...

The DUP is stalling on a deal, irritating those who want to see devolved government back by Christmas – but that’s no...

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5 months ago
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NI farmer charged with handling proceeds of huge cannabis factory yards from his front door

A farmer who told the Belfast Telegraph he was “really annoyed” that the police weren’t doing enough to find the crim...

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5 months ago
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A DUP founder and an ex-UDA man are both thinking the previously unthinkable: Irish unity might work

In the undergrowth of unionism, something is stirring. It’s still only a few rustling leaves rather than a stampede, ...

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5 months ago
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Jayne Brady was brought in to fix the Civil Service… but WhatsApp issue shows lessons of RHI have...

Back when Northern Ireland was governed by ministers, Arlene Foster and her special adviser devised a means of commun...

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5 months ago
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Jimmy Savile was a paedophile – but I could be jailed for saying that, thanks to Stormont’s new law

Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. Those words have for years been accepted as uncontroversially factual — but now utteri...

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5 months ago
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Donaldson hopes cash makes up for Irish Sea border climbdown – but it could make it seem worse

Gordon Brown once said that when he came to Belfast he would “feel the hand of history on my shoulders, and the hand ...

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5 months ago
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Is Westminster’s power-sharing £2.5bn cash offer all as it seems?

The Government is offering Stormont what seems like a massive sum if the DUP restores power-sharing rapidly — but is ...

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5 months ago
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Edgar Graham: Was the best leader unionism never had set up by a colleague?

A week ago yesterday I found myself standing at a door just north of Dublin in the hope that I’d be able to ask a 74-...

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5 months ago
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The uncomfortable truth for the DUP is that it has presided over the weakening of the Union

The DUP once dismissed Jeffrey Donaldson as “Enoch Powell’s messenger boy” — and then he became their leader.

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