{"id":596930,"date":"2026-08-18T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596930\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:28:08","slug":"achill-gp-to-launch-book-on-rural-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596930\/","title":{"rendered":"Achill GP to launch book on rural healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Achill GP is to launch a book this Friday, with a collection of stories connecting rural life and healthcare on Ireland\u2019s westernmost islands with community health and development in rural Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Noreen Lineen Curtis has worked in general practice on Achill, Mayo\u2019s offshore islands and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The book, \u2018Rural eye \u2013 10 Years of Scribbling\u2019, brings together stories Dr. Curtis has written over a ten-year period for \u2018Forum\u2019, the official publication of the Irish Colleges of GPs.<\/p>\n<p>Interspersed between Noreen\u2019s stories are chapters describing the work of Brighter Communities Worldwide in the rural communities of Kericho County, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation partners with communities in East Africa to deliver health, education and economic development programmes.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the book will be dedicated to this charity.<\/p>\n<p>The launch takes place at The Beehive on Achill Island this Friday at 7:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 An Achill GP is to launch a book this Friday, with a collection of stories connecting rural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-596930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596930","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=596930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}