Sam McBride
Northern Ireland Editor at Belfast Telegraph
Northern Ireland Editor at Sunday Independent
Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Sam McBride
Lawyers dismissed ‘derisory offers’ to settle cost of case as interest mounts on £500k-plus costMore than two years after admitting it broke the law by spying on two senior police officers, the PSNI is still refusing to pay their legal bill — despite promising a judge at the time that it would do so.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Sam McBride
Cavernous Bessbrook base has been under lock and key since 2007 when the Army left – but inside remain the room where Robert Nairac left on the night of his death and another room whose walls heard many secretsDeep within the bowels of what was once the Army’s key base in the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland lies a relic of the Troubles that was formerly top secret. It’s a series of rooms — three in total — that begin with what has been made to look like a drive-in garage.
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independent.ie | Sam McBride
I’m convinced there isn’t one person in the world who fully understands the protocol. Customs experts might fully understand parts; experts in SPS (sanitary and phytosanitary, or food and plant safety) might understand other bits — but no one person fully comprehends the enormity of the complexity. Even if they did, they can’t fully predict how this fiendishly complex arrangement, involving sprawling legal texts and subtexts, can be affected by unforeseen events elsewhere.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Sam McBride
Far from the ‘best of both worlds’, our unique half-in, half-out status leaves us in a position of uncertainty... never good for businessWriting about the Northern Ireland Protocol is an exercise in Socratic wisdom: The more you know, the more you come to appreciate how little you know. I’m convinced that there isn’t one person in the world who fully understands the protocol.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Sam McBride
In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph, Micheál Martin sets out his policy on Northern Ireland in more detail than ever before. In its own way, it’s radical – and not what Irish unity activists will want to hearMicheál Martin first crossed the border as a young man desperately curious about a place which, since his childhood, had been an erupting volcano of sectarian slaughter. It was the early 1980s and, amid the hunger strike chaos, Martin’s visit was atypical.
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The Government has advertised for up to five historians who will be given access to still classified files to write the "definitive account" of British policy towards Northern Ireland during the Troubles. They'll have up to five years to do so. https://t.co/InxnoI1izl
Both the DUP & Sinn Féin are in their comfort zone arguing about the Irish language - unlike tackling Lough Neagh's pollution or a water system in crisis. And the Irish language commisisoner the DUP & SF are now appointing will multiply such disputes. https://t.co/Aa2O2ufRYu