From energy security, to multi million pound contracts and no show loyalist protests.
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  May 5, 2021  
     
 

 

Alistair Bushe
 
Alistair Bushe
Editor


Dear reader,

It has been a busy period dominated by street violence, the NI Protocol and more recently Arlene Foster being deposed as DUP leader and the current leadership challenge.

Here we have hand-picked five recent stories from Sam McBride, which you might have missed, that dig deep into issues affecting all our lives in Northern Ireland.

 

 

 
     
 
 
Sam McBride: The most important firm in Northern Ireland you’ve probably never heard of – but are paying for
 
One of the many damaging consequences of sectarian division is how it distracts from major problems which affect us all. Sometimes it diverts attention from problems which are costing us financially. For those making money at our expense, that suits them just fine.
 
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Farce as loyalist protest group claims credit for no one showing up to its protest
 
A new loyalist group which claimed to have been behind hundreds of anti-Irish Sea border posters which appeared across Northern Ireland has admitted that not a single person showed up after it called multiple protests.
 
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DUP MP Gavin Robinson’s wife hits back at internal party critics of her anti-gay conversion therapy campaigning
 
The wife of a DUP MP has hit back at those within the party said to have questioned some of her recent comments urging a ban on gay conversion therapy.
 
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Sam McBride: On the streets and in Stormont, the next few months look bleak for Northern Ireland
 
Since the erection of the Irish Sea border at the start of January, there has been both implicit and explicit dismissal of unionist anger.
 
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  Secretive road contract for millions ruled illegal as court lashes civil servants for giving firm preferential treatment  
     
  Dave Lewis  
     
  Northern Ireland’s highest court has savaged civil servants for an illegal secretive process to award lucrative road contracts to a firm incapable of doing the work.  
     
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