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

839 Articles
4 months ago
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DUP councillor quits after four months, saying stress of party spats left him hospitalised

A DUP councillor has quit the party just months into his political career, days after being hospitalised with a heart...

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4 months ago
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Amber alert on NI’s electricity grid as wind doesn’t blow and loss of Kilroot slashes margins

An emergency alert has been triggered on Northern Ireland’s electricity grid, sending it into an amber warning at tea...

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4 months ago
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Sinn Féin is seeking an authoritarian society where criticism is not allowed

Not since Gerry Kelly blew up the Old Bailey in London half a century ago has he caused so much damage. But whereas t...

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4 months ago
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Strike by 80% of public sector will be devastating –but it’s just the start, with civil disobedie...

Few people yet comprehend the scale of the mass strike which is going to cripple Northern Ireland’s public and privat...

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4 months ago
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DAERA’s top official refuses to explain why department has broken the law by failing to publish a...

Stormont’s agriculture department has failed to explain why it hasn’t filed its accounts more than nine months after ...

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4 months ago
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Chief vet Robert Huey allowed to retire with £1m pension, despite scandal-hit final two years in ...

Northern Ireland’s chief vet is to retire, it can be revealed, and within months will be picking up a pension worth a...

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4 months ago
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Hefty bill for Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly as judge throws out ‘scandalous’ attempt to sue Malachi O’...

A senior judge has thrown out a “scandalous” attempt by Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly to claim he should be compensated by ...

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4 months ago
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The dangers of consensus: How Stormont was often at its worst when it was unanimous

For decades, Northern Ireland was an example of the danger of conflict. But for years it has exemplified the danger o...

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5 months ago
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Northern Ireland’s top 100 newsmakers of 2023, No 2: Lough Neagh

Not for more than half a century has Lough Neagh been as famous – but for the worst of reasons.

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5 months ago
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Half of fuel sold in NI from 1992-2000 was smuggled across the border, files reveal

About half of all fuel sold in Northern Ireland was being smuggled from the Republic, according to declassified paper...

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5 months ago
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Up to £40,000 fee for Jon Snow to chair seminar at Stormont labelled ‘outrageous’

The Head of the Civil Service was appalled at the “outrageous sum” being quoted for journalist Jon Snow to lead a sem...

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5 months ago
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State papers: London aware DUP intended to take up ministerial posts even if IRA kept its guns

Almost a year before the DUP appointed its first Executive ministers, the NIO privately knew Ian Paisley’s party was ...

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