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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📢Some news from me: I've written a book with the erudite & eloquent Fintan O'Toole in which we each argue for - and then against - Irish unity, setting out objectively what seem to us each side's best arguments, and the issues people across the island of Ireland should consider.
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Exactly a year today @SJAMcBride for the launch, every prediction has come true and service hasn’t changed.
Nowhere more obvious than GP to be so fundamental to new model, to prevention and proactive care and to shift to out of hospital care, but has instead been decimated
Northern Ireland's collapsing health service is a scandal; Stormont knew this would happen - and has allowed it. Vast sums have been paid to temporary staff to prop up a system MLAs admitted a decade ago was unsustainable. Now even that isn’t working.
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Rhinos, Provos and loyalist terror bosses: Northern Ireland has become the land of the absurd where words have lost their meaning. Society is pretending all is well, when deeply abnormal behaviour has become not only acceptable but encouraged.
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😭 great to see.. what a hero.
World-leading cardiac surgeon Asif Hasan was surrounded by the children who received the gift of life thanks to his unerring skills at the emotional climax of another memorable Pride of Britain ceremony. 🥹
Now 70 years old, Mr Hasan has just retired after 35 years of service at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, but just after receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award, he had an extra special surprise: a cast of patients who would not be alive without him. ❤️
Stormont descends into chaos as Michelle O’Neill walks out, leaving Emma Little-Pengelly unable to continue: After O'Neill belatedly agrees to attend scrutiny committee, FM-dFM chasm is impossible to conceal or deny. This is now government in name only.
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Today's @BelTel column
💚 Time to end the cruel urban myth that unfairly tarnishes NI fans
🏴 Duncan Ferguson deserves credit for taking Glentoran gig. But reputations count for nothing in Irish League
💛 St Brigid's put South Belfast on GAA map
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Jeffrey Donaldson’s incessant trips to the developing world raise dark new questions about shadow career abroad: DUP MP visited African country 10 times in less than 3 years, helped flog weapons alongside a British general & worked with special forces man.
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London shouldn’t give Stormont any more money - extra cash has been perversely making things worse for the public. The Executive is an emperor with no clothes: It’s strutting around buck naked and far too many people who know this are silent.
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Jeffrey Donaldson was a key and ‘very keen’ British asset in sensitive west African conflict, paid thousands while Irish Sea border was emerging. Documents show prized role working with Cameroonian dictator’s forces, luxury hotel stays, and personal cash.
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Despite its bluster, the DUP knows the Union they loved has gone, & it’s unlikely to return. That doesn’t mean the Union’s over, but it will be different – different in a way they didn’t foresee, & don’t want, but might never be able to change – & which they brought on themselves
Apologies to Sir Chris Bryant for inadvertently referring to him as 'Sir Christ Bryant' in my email newsletter last night. Although I'm sure he's been called worse, the correct version, minus Biblical title, is now online.
I went to hear Barack Obama this week with low expectations; they were not surpassed
✍️: @SJAMcBride
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BREAKING: Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years for 18 child sex offences.
Full story - @beltel belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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🔴The latest Red Lines with @MarkCarruthers7 has dropped🔴
Drumcree: The political fallout with @BBCGarethG @SJAMcBride and Dr David McCann.
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Last call for Truth Be Told, TOMORROW at 6pm. @SJAMcBride and Angela Graham in conversation. It's FREE of charge and there are still some tickets available, but you need to register via the @BelfastExposed website. See you there!
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As Barack Obama speaks to an audience of more than 10,000 people in Belfast's O2 Arena, talking abut the fragility of democracy around the world, someone shouts out loudly from the crowd: "F**k Stormont".
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Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots says an MLA was wearing AirPods in the Chamber tonight.
“If you don’t want to listen to debates and want to listen to something else, you leave the chamber.”
Assembly members are paid £67,000
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Fascinating conversation about photography, journalism and poetry between @SJAMcBride of the @BelTel and Angela Graham, expertly chaired by @williamcrawley on today's Talkback @BBCRadioUlster - begins at 1 hr 03 mins 48 secs into the programme.
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