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

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Belfast Telegraph

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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sunday 4

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07.09.2025 10

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07.09.2025 10

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05.09.2025 20

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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

Belfast Telegraph

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

Belfast Telegraph

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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 4

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

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25.08.2025 20

Belfast Telegraph

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

Belfast Telegraph

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

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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

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

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

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11.08.2025 3

Belfast Telegraph

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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

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Sam Mcbride

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

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04.08.2025 10

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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

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

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28.07.2025 20

Belfast Telegraph

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

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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

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

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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Sam Mcbride

Scarred by conflict, Norman Tebbit knew the price of peace

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14.07.2025 5

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Sam Mcbride

MLAs voted to accidentally tie their own hands – now they’re going to do what they hate: take unpopular decisions

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13.07.2025 8

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

Why controlling rather than eradicating bonfires could help loyalism, and society

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07.07.2025 6

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29.06.2025 70

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29.06.2025 4

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Unity or the Union? Both sides have a good argument, but rarely is it made in a sensible way

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28.06.2025 30

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The case for either unity or the Union should be based on facts, not tribal thinking... our future depends on it

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28.06.2025 10

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22.06.2025 20

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A far-sighted DUP would realise migrants might decide a border poll… but party appears more worried about appeasing paramilitaries

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17.06.2025 8

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State funding has become a perverse incentive to riot

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16.06.2025 10

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Incoherent DUP vulnerable if voters realise it lobbied for more migration while presenting very different message

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15.06.2025 40

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Incoherent DUP vulnerable if voters realise it lobbied for more migration while presenting a very different message

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15.06.2025 4

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Sam Mcbride

The cross-border service doing more to break down barriers than all the north-south bodies combined

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09.06.2025 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

Sir Ken Bloomfield was a titanic figure who helped reshape NI in ways unthinkable for our sorry civil service

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08.06.2025 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

Sir Ken Bloomfield was a titanic figure who helped reshape Northern Ireland in ways unthinkable for our sorry civil service

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08.06.2025 10

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Sam Mcbride

Dismayed by Gerry Adams’ libel victory in a Dublin court, BBC now considering geoblocking Republic

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02.06.2025 6

Belfast Telegraph

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01.06.2025 20

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As Adams’ trial began, Denis Donaldson’s daughter sent us a statement we can only now print, revealing an intriguing rift

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01.06.2025 10

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Sam Mcbride

Gerry Adams is a man of towering ambition who’d no moral qualms about securing his goal through murder

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31.05.2025 60

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

Kneecap are not above the law – even if they are from Belfast

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27.05.2025 40

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25.05.2025 5

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Revealed: Winston Irvine’s host of top-level referees, some of whom wanted to hide their identity from the public

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24.05.2025 6

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

UK-EU deal drastically softens Irish Sea border but also reduces NI’s supposed ‘best of both worlds’

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20.05.2025 20

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18.05.2025 9

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Forget Brits out – Sinn Féin’s hapless ministers can’t even get cars out of a tiny Belfast street

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12.05.2025 20

Belfast Telegraph

Sam Mcbride

Forget Brits out - Sinn Féin's hapless ministers can't even get cars out of a tiny street

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12.05.2025 3

Belfast Telegraph

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