Michael Callaghan

Michael Rosen: Letter to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/letter…

The Global March to Gaza (marchtogaza.net) is more than a march. It is an act of global disobedience against one of the most brutal, enduring and profitable (ask Lockheed-Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir, ELBIT, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Maersk, Barclays Bank, Allianz, BNP Paribas etc.) genocides. It is living proof that, even when governments remain silent or acquiesce, the people do not forget – and they do not give up. The thousands of activists who are now gathering in Cairo, in preparation of their March to Gaza, will cross checkpoints and fences; they will face untold obstacles and weapon-grade hurdles – and they will do so to honour internationalism’s most fundamental principle: None of us are free, if one of us are chained. No one can be free while Gaza is being levelled, starved, besieged and annihilated – especially when this crime against humanity is perpetrated, supposedly, in our name by corporations, banks, states, universities and armies whose power and authority stems from within our societies. As a citizen, as an internationalist, as an activist who demands that our actions and practices subscribe to minimal ethical standards, I wish to state my unconditional support for the March to Gaza and to salute the marchers not only for their courage but, primarily, for their determination to prevent the normalisation of genocide, to shatter the West’s guilty silence, and to remind the world that the only path to Peace is through a Justice that is meaningless without Freedom for Palestine. Let us all march together, even in our imagination, until the blockade of Gaza is broken, until the people of Gaza are saved from Israel’s meatgrinder, until the voices of the people of Gaza reach every corner of the Earth. Yanis Varoufakis

60-Second Journal Club: NEJM Editorial Fellow @sarah_gorey, MB, summarizes the REDOX trial assessing hospitalization and mortality among patients with chronic severe hypoxemia who received long-term oxygen therapy for either 24 or 15 hours per day. Full trial: nej.md/4cR3pK4

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I’ve been all over the country in the last month. And I get asked the same question, over and over again: “I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is my answer:

Northern lights visible in Derry

Interested in becoming a GP in Ireland? Want a good work-life balance, & wide choice of career options. Applications for the 2025 Training Programme open 7th October. Go to beagp.com or IrishCollegeofGPs.com for details. #BEaGP

Difference is an accident of birth. Difference is of the essence of humanity. Respect for difference is the first and deepest principle of real peace. Today, on John Hume’s 4th anniversary, his core belief is more important than ever.

Why does a terrible attack on Ukrainian children bring about an immediate response from our new Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer while he has said nothing about the horrible slaughter of Palestinian children in nine months of relentless mass murder? Just to put this in context by 29 Oct 2023, barely a month into the Israeli assault, Save the Children declared that the number of children killed in Gaza was more than all those killed globally since 2019. Why is the mass-murder of Palestinian children less upsetting to him than an attack on those in Ukraine?

@columeastwood @ClaireHanna @SDLPlive Well done colum

Thank you to everyone who came out to send a message and send hardworking SDLP MPs to Westminster to fight for them this week. The campaign is over but the hard work starts now. A new government has promises to keep. @ClaireHanna and I will be there to serve all our communities.

Brilliance!

David McGloin captured this pod of dolphins swimming close to the shoreline in Rathmullan this evening

This is a sobering read on GP capacity from @HIQA - is it any wonder our Emergency Departments are overcrowded? By these estimates we need up to 3000 more GPs in our health system within the next 4 years #PublicHealth #GeneralPractice #EmergencyDepartment #CareCantWait

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A powerful Irish voice raised on behalf of the people of Gaza at the International Court of Justice. Shaming the Irish government, which looked the other way.

Winter cruise on lough swilly brian callaghan @suzannecallagha

He deserves to end up in the Hague, getting the full Milošević

Aided, abetted and enabled by the US & the UK