One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political history:
originally a green-energy initiative, the Renewal Heat Incentive (RHI)
or 'cash-for-ash' scheme saw Northern Ireland's government pay £1.60 for
every £1 of fuel the public burned in their wood-pellet boilers, leading
to widespread abuse and ultimately the collapse of the power-sharing
administration at Stormont. Revealing the wild incompetence of the
Northern Ireland civil service and the ineptitude and serious abuses of
power by some of those at the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which
would go on to prop up the governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson,
this scandal exposed not only some of Northern Ireland's most powerful
figures but revealed problems that go to the very heart of how NI is
governed. A riveting political thriller from the journalist who covered
the controversy for over two years, Burned is the inside story of the
shocking scandal that brought down a government.