Ireland Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Ireland with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top health headlines from Ireland. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=ie&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=ie" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "ie", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "ie",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "ie",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=ie&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 209626,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "256ac8a35a4a7e642c172075d92c0688",
            "title": "Eight women to share their stories of advanced breast cancer at powerful photography exhibition",
            "description": "A powerful photography exhibition highlighting the lived experiences of women with advanced breast cancer is set to take place this weekend.",
            "content": "A powerful photography exhibition highlighting the lived experiences of women with advanced breast cancer is set to take place this weekend.\n‘Living Loudly. Dying to be Heard: Perspectives on Advanced Breast Cancer’ will feature portraits and persona... [2198 chars]",
            "url": "https://extra.ie/2026/10/14/news/irish-news/advanced-breast-cancer-photography-exhibition",
            "image": "https://extra.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/A-22.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:10:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f29fb9925acc3624328216c145f1944d",
                "name": "Extra.ie",
                "url": "https://extra.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0e2bf2fe87e5c0fe03397365049e27ee",
            "title": "HSE warn against health misinformation as controversial 'alternative nutritionist' comes to Ireland",
            "description": "'She has claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate of soda, which has absolutely no basis in scientific fact.'",
            "content": "Ms O'Neill describes herself as a naturopath and nutritionist but was permanently banned from providing health services in New South Wales. The Australian state's Health Care Complaints Commission found she had told clients that cancer is a fungus tr... [3197 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41924035.html",
            "image": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/10519/5259760_8_org_IMG_1235.jpeg.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T17:53:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "634dc62a3fe9c48f4c2cc004e680a220",
                "name": "Irish Examiner",
                "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e3a5a62a20cd779321157f9e3a8f6669",
            "title": "Archie Goodburn thanked as ministers announce plans to improve brain cancer care",
            "description": "The Scottish swimmer, 25, has been praised for his advocacy work.",
            "content": "Scottish swimmer Archie Goodburn has been thanked for his efforts to improve brain cancer care for patients after his campaigning led to the Government announcing a package of measures to enhance care.\nGoodburn, who was diagnosed with an oligodendrog... [4865 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/archie-goodburn-thanked-as-ministers-announce-plans-to-improve-brain-cancer-care-PK4WLV3VMNIUDJGBJ52W4IXREA/",
            "image": "https://www.irishnews.com/resizer/v2/DR3PTGOLSNP7PIYGRBXGNBXBPM.jpg?smart=true&auth=9c1d8040b907f9e88e1632de1eac0f3a937c42505600c38aef79bc0abb0409ec&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T16:07:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f16efc96d0de1a6b5398d732cce1fe7a",
                "name": "The Irish News",
                "url": "https://www.irishnews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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