Sam McBride
speaker
783 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard yesterday
Sam McBride’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But from the police's perspective, they've kept the police.
They've managed to keep people in positions where this is still about words.
It's not about violence.
What Alison has said about people who are trying to be violent, they're being restrained on the other side, is also very important.
So this is not a lost situation right now.
There is still something here to be salvaged, but it will require compromise.
And I think the difficulty here is that both of these particular positions have been ventilated over such a long period of time.
It is very difficult to see why, if you're Brent McKenna, you're going to accept anything going down the road.
If it's a single orange man with nothing at all, that's too much.
For the orange, they say, look, we have compromised.
It's not 800, it's not bans, it's not flags, it's 35.
And so we've kind of got to the compromise.
It hasn't worked.
It's very difficult to see where we go from there.
he might be very happy with you describing him in those terms.
Look, he is a significant player in unionism.
He has been for a very long time.
It's clear that he is respected by the Orange Order.
They have brought him in to help manage this situation for them.
They will say and he will say that he's won.
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