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This artwork is a silent rebuke for all of us… too scared or insensitive to recognise NI’s often ignored victims

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Sam Mcbride

Expert warns NI on a path to Lebanon-style decay if floundering Stormont isn’t urgently reformed

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Sam Mcbride

Inquiry has cost over £200m, yet has hidden evidence of Stormont’s chaos which will be destroyed – just as some hoped

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23.11.2025 7

Sam Mcbride

Paul Givan may be happier with the Supreme Court’s religious education ruling than he appears

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21.11.2025 4

Sam Mcbride

The Rathlin experiment: How a tiny island could have a big role in how we live our lives

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17.11.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

NI’s governance was revolutionised 40 years ago – but only now is gulf between ferocious unionist rhetoric and private compromise emerging

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16.11.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

How one noble act prompted ex-Provo’s quest to find remains of Robert Nairac

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10.11.2025 10

Sam Mcbride

Civil servants and MLAs are gorging on taxpayer-subsidised food while at the same time juries are refused so much as a toaster

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09.11.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Dissident republicans must wish Blue Lights had never been made

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03.11.2025 7

Sam Mcbride

Stormont has never had it so good – despite decrying ‘British austerity’, it’s getting more money than ever in NI’s history

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02.11.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Will Catherine Connolly be a president who can heal cross-border relations or a Sinn Féin stooge?

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27.10.2025 10

Sam Mcbride

In praise of MLAs: Recent episode shows they’re not all useless — and believing otherwise is highly dangerous

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26.10.2025 4

Sam Mcbride

If a border poll arrives, the southern ‘No’ campaign will shock and appal many Irish people

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20.10.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Why should the south vote for a united Ireland? Finding practical reasons was tougher than I thought

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20.10.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Judge's scathing verdict poses a serious question for integrated education... while DUP now needs to speak to a sceptical public

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19.10.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

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12.10.2025 4

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12.10.2025 20

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Nama trial is a thriller with back-stabbing and claims of insatiable greed... and it's an establishment who's who

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06.10.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

Nama trial a riveting blockbuster of high politics and raw capitalism

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06.10.2025 4

Sam Mcbride

Stormont is pretending to close RHI, but isn’t: it’s quadrupling payments, locking them in to 2036, and making scheme easier to abuse

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05.10.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

Largely unknown parliamentary veto on border poll exists — but Government dismisses possibility of a rogue minister

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28.09.2025 10

Sam Mcbride

The spying that wasn’t really spying: How PSNI’s silence made its actions seem far worse than they were

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25.09.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

Man or Machine? In politics and everyday life, it’s increasingly hard to tell

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22.09.2025 8

Sam Mcbride

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21.09.2025 10

Sam Mcbride

There’s a gaping hole in the British-Irish legacy deal – and to the killers it must reek of weakness

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20.09.2025 10

Sam Mcbride

Sam McBride goes inside the undeveloped $20bn NI goldmine that Stormont can’t decide on

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14.09.2025 7

Sam Mcbride

The slowest gold rush: A $20bn Tyrone gold deposit Stormont can’t decide on – which is now geopolitically significant

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14.09.2025 4

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07.09.2025 10

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05.09.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Gerry Adams is Sinn Féin’s best hope for the Irish presidency — so why isn’t he running?

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01.09.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Buried file reveals how London wanted Stormont to pardon men accused of killing son of Apprentice Boys’ chief in 1920 as anarchy gripped Derry

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31.08.2025 6

Sam Mcbride

Buried file reveals how London wanted Stormont to pardon two men accused of killing the son of Apprentice Boys’ governor as violence and anarchy gripped Derry in June 1920

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31.08.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

Working from home might suit people like me, but it could accelerate already dangerous trends

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25.08.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Some of the behaviour which led to RHI is being repeated under Sinn Féin minister

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24.08.2025 30

Sam Mcbride

Hapless Stormont’s inability to kill RHI exposes how irreformable devolution has been – and now this is sucking in Sinn Féin

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24.08.2025 30

Sam Mcbride

Money Stormont ‘spent’ on cycling and walking won’t actually be spent until next year – but it says that’s fine

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12.08.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

Why the other Stormont could help unlock Casement conundrum...and influence international sport

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11.08.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

Sinn Fein has much to gain from going out to bat for cricket

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11.08.2025 8

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10.08.2025 10

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10.08.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin might soon be using: Keep Northern Ireland

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04.08.2025 10

Sam Mcbride

The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin soon might be using: Keep Northern Ireland

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04.08.2025 10

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03.08.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Opinionated and outspoken, Deirdre Heenan an intriguing potential candidate in Irish presidential race

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28.07.2025 20

Sam Mcbride

Opinionated and outspoken, Deirdre Heenan an intriguing candidate in Irish presidential race

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28.07.2025 4

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27.07.2025 5

Sam Mcbride

Two incidents illustrate the futility of the unionist unity being pushed by DUP, and why it would weaken rather than strengthen unionism

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20.07.2025 6

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Norman Tebbit had rage, but many missed that he also recognised the need for rapprochement

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14.07.2025 20

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Scarred by conflict, Norman Tebbit knew the price of peace

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