Sam McBride

To govern is to choose, as France’s former PM Pierre Mendes once observed. Though for years, Sinn Fein appeared to defy this maxim.

These are the first pictures of the criminals who made money from the vast illegal superdump at Mobuoy, where toxic material was dumped beside the river from which much of Londonderry’s drinking water is drawn.

A senior education inspector was appalled at how a special school handled a pupil’s sexual abuse of much younger pupils in the early 2000s, declassified Stormont files have revealed.

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When Ulster Rugby renamed Ravenhill the Kingspan Stadium in 2014, there’s no evidence it knew the company was consciously endangering human lives in pursuit of a quick buck.

As darkness descended last Sunday, an inferno seriously damaged the Greenisland Church of Ireland building and completely destroyed the parish hall.

A senior Stormont Department of Agriculture official who wrote the department's response to an EU fraud office enquiry about cross-border smuggling privately admitted that even he wasn’t convinced by his own defence of what they were doing.

For more than three months, Sinn Féin has been quietly censoring criticism of the party — and even some praise. Analysis by the Sunday Independent shows how the practice was started by Mary Lou McDonald in June, then followed by her party.

A former head of the Civil Service privately lobbied against legislation that could have meant jail terms for the behaviour exposed in the RHI scandal, it can be revealed.