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Sam McBride
@sjamcbride.bsky.social
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.
Talking with former Irish diplomat Rory Montgomery and @fotoole.bsky.social on the @arinsproject.bsky.social about our new book For and Against a United Ireland.
🎧Full podcast episode: t.co/ELXfJv4jZG
📖Get the book here: shop.ria.ie/products/for...
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You probably didn't know that David Trimble - then a hardliner close to Bill Craig & involved in bringing down Stormont's first power-sharing experiment - travelled to jail to teach republican students interned in 1971. Lots more nuance like that in @stepwalktv.bsky.social's new biography.
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🎧Podcast (free)
Who is the mystery owner of Ian Paisley Jr's valuable constituency office? Talking to @OliviaPeden_ about how a DUP MP was able to claim vast sums of public money to rent from an entity whose owner is hidden behind a dead man's name.
👉 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/podcasts/the...
July 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Tickets now available for the Dublin launch event accompanying the release of For and Against a United Ireland with @fotoole.bsky.social. Despite it being in the National Concert Hall, I promise not to sing.
🎟️Book tickets: www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
📙 Pre-order the book: shop.ria.ie/products/for...
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Tickets now available for the Lyric Theatre event accompanying the release of For and Against a United Ireland: Fintan O'Toole for & against; yours truly for and against... and more.
🎟️Book tickets here: lyrictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/for...
📙 Pre-order the book here: shop.ria.ie/products/for...
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM