{"id":446685,"date":"2026-05-13T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446685\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:40:11","slug":"meath-woman-turns-decade-long-battle-with-lyme-disease-into-short-film-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446685\/","title":{"rendered":"Meath woman turns decade long battle with Lyme disease into short film success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katie Joan Maguire at the 'Warrior' private screening. Photo: Emilien Durand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4ea893af-6059-480c-938d-e8997144d43d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Katie Joan Maguire at the &#8216;Warrior&#8217; private screening. Photo: Emilien Durand<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Katie Joan Maguire began to feel sick after her 21st birthday party in 2008 and since then it has been a long road to diagnosis and eventually recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Her short film \u2018Warrior\u2019 recently wrapped up, with the trailer released on social media last week, navigates the life of someone living with an invisible illness that often gets dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Joan Maguire at the &#8216;Warrior&#8217; private screening. Photo: Emilien Durand Katie Joan Maguire began to feel sick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,5657],"class_list":["post-446685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louise-hickey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}