Gerry Mackin

Great to see football back at Celtic Park. Great history piece below. This is the only item of memorabilia i have ever seen from Derry Celtic. If anyone has anything for sale please get in touch.

Israel's Ambassador to Italy has lost his shit over this magazine cover. Why? He knows it's an era-defining image. The hasbara crowd is insisting it's an antisemitic fake (it's not). If the cruel, degrading, illegal occupation has a face this is it. Reality bites. Hard.

I nearly don't want to say his name as he thrives on attention, violence, infamy and bullying. Way before 2016 my friends (all non-political) said Trump would win the Presidency. I was like, wtf why would you think that? They said because he was the guy off the Apprentice. He hired & fired. They didn't personally like him, but they saw how others thought that he got stuff done 1/

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra 120,000 NHS nurses. It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires.

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In medical school, we are taught a golden rule: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." It is a reminder to look for the common explanation before the exotic one. But after decades in cardiology, I’ve learned that if a patient is still suffering after the "horses" have been ruled out, a doctor must have the courage—and the curiosity—to go hunting for the zebra. Sarah was a thirty-four-year-old marathon runner and a devoted mother who came to me after six months of being told she was "fine." She had been bounced from one specialist to another, each one pointing to her normal EKG and standard blood tests as proof that her crushing fatigue and racing heart were simply the result of "new mom stress." By the time she reached my office, she didn't just look tired; she looked invisible, as if the medical system had stopped seeing the woman and only saw the data. Instead of re-reading the normal test results that had already failed her, I asked Sarah to walk me through her life. We talked about her training and her family, eventually landing on a backpacking trip she took to the Mendoza province of rural Argentina. She described staying in a charming, rustic cottage made of sun-dried mud bricks. She mentioned waking up one morning with a strangely swollen, purple eyelid that she assumed was a simple spider bite. As she spoke, a memory surfaced from a biography I had read years ago about Charles Darwin. Most people know Darwin for his theories on evolution, but medical historians have long puzzled over the mysterious, debilitating illness that plagued him for decades after he returned from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Darwin had written in his journals about being bitten by the "great black bug of the Pampas" while sleeping in mud-walled huts in South America. He spent the rest of his life suffering from heart palpitations and exhaustion that the Victorian doctors of his time could never explain. I realized then that Sarah wasn't suffering from stress; she was likely hosting the same "silent killer" that may have haunted Darwin: Chagas Disease. The "Kissing Bug" lives in the cracks of those mud-brick walls. It bites its victims—often near the eyes or mouth—while they sleep, passing a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi into the blood. The danger of Chagas is that the initial symptoms disappear quickly, but the parasite can hide in the body for years, slowly weaving itself into the muscle and electrical "wiring" of the heart. To confirm this, I moved beyond the standard tests. I ordered a specialized "Strain Rate" ultrasound, which doesn't just look at whether the heart is pumping, but at how the individual muscle fibers are stretching. We saw that while her heart looked strong to the naked eye, the fibers were "stuttering," a sign of early parasite-induced scarring. A specific blood test for the parasite's antibodies confirmed the diagnosis. Treatment required a difficult, sixty-day course of anti-parasitic medication to stop the infection, paired with a protective heart regimen to keep her electrical system stable while the inflammation settled. Because we caught it before her heart was physically damaged or enlarged, the recovery was a success. Months later, Sarah returned to my office, her vibrant energy restored. She brought me a leather-bound copy of The Voyage of the Beagle with a note tucked inside. She wrote that while other doctors had looked at her charts, I had looked at her. This case remains a vital reminder for my memoir: in a world of high-tech scans and AI, the most sophisticated diagnostic tool we possess is still the human story. When we truly listen, we don't just find the disease—we find the patient. Good morning.

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Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history." RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!

BREAKING: Music legend Bruce Springsteen just released this incredible song that will be sure to piss Trump off beyond belief. “Streets of Minneapolis”. He wrote this song about Alex Pretti and Renée Good Saturday and recorded it yesterday. Share it far and wide and play it as loud as you can

@MaldronHotels Dublin Airport was full of passengers unable to get a room as all airport hotels fully booked. You were unwilling to exchange booking for the next night. Poor inflexible service. 2/2

Flight problems all over Europe due to snow. I booked a room in @MaldronHotels Dublin Airport on Monday evening so as not have to drive to the airport early for a 9am flight. Arrived to Dublin to find flight cancelled. Unable to book another flight until Wednesday. 1/2

This is brilliant by Myriam Francois. A superb summing-up of what Israel is doing.

Wow, this 🔥 Rebukes from a few Republicans are noteworthy, but where is literally everyone else? “Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing of the White House. I didn’t see any statements from any of them. Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department. I didn’t see any statements from them. Jeff Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump and is now making documentaries about his wife Melania. I didn’t see any statements from him. No one has said anything about the character of this person today.” — Nicolle Wallace

The queer pop anthem this administration did not ask for. 💕🐴🤥 #BigPhonySchmuck #NewVideo #parody

No country should be above the rules and statutes of UEFA: FAI delegates from across Irish football voted overwhelmingly today to call for Israel's removal from UEFA competition.

I’m allowed to share an anonymised WhatsApp post. Nothing more to say, except I’m with you, resident doctor colleagues and other doctors working in the NHS. Enough is enough.

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