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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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Gerry Adams said he was prepared to ‘wade up to my knees in Protestant blood to united Ireland’, ex-IRA man claimed

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By Sam McBride 
| Irish Independent
Government questioned if claims were believable — while ex-Sinn Fein President now says he never made such a remark and has ‘always been avowedly anti-sectarian’ Gerry Adams (right) taking part in an IRA ‘guard of honour’ at a funeral in Belfast in 1971 of a Belfast IRA commander. Gerry Adams told a fellow republican in Long Kesh that he was prepared to “wade up to my knees in Protestant blood to a united Ireland”, that former republican comrade told British officials.
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Why do we cover inquests when it can pain families? The objections to this are understandable, but often misplaced

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By Sam McBride 
| Irish Independent
I remember being told by the news editor that it was a reporter’s job to not only listen to all the evidence in the courtroom but to also, at the end, approach the family of the deceased to delicately ask if there was anything they would like to say. As with knocking on the door of a family who’ve just lost a loved one, it’s a horrible task which feels unavoidably intrusive. Yet this is where some of the most powerful stories in journalism have originated.
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Don’t dare call Epstein a paedophile: Inside story of top Irish lawyer’s work to clean up billionaire’s image, threatening media on his behalf

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By Sam McBride 
| Irish Independent
Years after Jeffrey Epstein was first jailed for sick sex crimes, Paul Tweed took mogul’s money for threatening the mediaGoing after Sarah Ferguson, Tweed told Epstein he should ‘take the gloves off’Someone – seemingly Prince Andrew – begged for Tweed to be ‘brought into line or to heel’Tweed now says he ‘categorically rejects the suggestion that he acted in any way inappropriately’ Sarah Ferguson, Jeffrey Epstein, Paul Tweed, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor It was early 2011 and Jeffrey...
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