Sam McBride

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527 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard yesterday

Sam McBride’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Indo Daily · Extra: Garvaghy Road stand-off - Northern Ireland in political turmoil over planned Orange Order march · 28 Sep 2026 podcast

What is the point of having a parades commission? voice-verified

What is the point of having the High Court when Alison says there that this is probably going to go back to the High Court this week, which I think is probably right? voice-verified

What is the point of doing that if we're not going to, on both sides, buy into what the outcome is? voice-verified

If the outcome goes a different way, then you're going to have loyalists saying, hang on a minute, we're not accepting this. voice-verified

And I think the fundamental danger that goes beyond parading, goes beyond what any of us think about this issue, voice-verified

is that what this tends towards is saying might is right. voice-verified

If you get enough people into a road, you can decide what happens. voice-verified

Forget the courts, forget the police, forget the government, forget any commission or what any law says. voice-verified

We can decide this for ourselves. voice-verified

Now, some people will agree with that here. voice-verified

Some people will disagree with that. voice-verified

But think about that in another context. voice-verified

Think about that in a context of race or migration. voice-verified

Think about that in a context of sexuality or any of the number of issues where people might have their rights protected by the law as a minority. voice-verified

You go to court, you assert your rights and you're protected by the state. voice-verified

We're in really dangerous territory if it's simply the case that we say, forget what the court says, we're going to do this. voice-verified

And there was a line in that Parades Commission determination saying, voice-verified

which when I read it, it jumped out at me way before this. voice-verified

And I had no reason to believe that any of this was going to happen. voice-verified

But I read it and I thought it alluded to something quite concerning because the commission, as Alison says, did say the police said to them that they didn't have evidence that there was going to be trouble. voice-verified

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