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Ireland Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Ireland with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Ireland Health News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Ireland.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ie&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 174344,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7b3675c2111156b4914270e1335f2a3f",
            "title": "Fewer kids receiving MMR vaccine on time",
            "description": "In another sign of growing vaccine hesitancy, a new report finds that the percentage of US toddlers vaccinated on time against measles, mumps and rubella has fallen since the COVID pandemic.",
            "content": "The ninth known case of welder’s anthrax, and the first clinical use of the monoclonal antibody medication obiltoxaximab to treat it, was recently documented in Louisiana.\nAn account of the case, published in the most recent Morbidity and Mortality W... [2244 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/fewer-kids-receiving-mmr-vaccine-time",
            "image": "https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/themes/custom/cidrap_theme/images/cidrap-og-image.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-02T20:56:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "29fcba365dad1c5ca0a8efcd57b4bc8e",
                "name": "CIDRAP",
                "url": "https://www.cidrap.umn.edu"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1257e62db34876f73627668a5b05279f",
            "title": "UF Health doctor says there was a surge in flu, cold patients during Christmas",
            "description": "An emergency room doctor at UF Health said the hospital saw a surge in patients over the Christmas holiday as a severe flu season and common colds drove higher volumes, especially among children.",
            "content": "FLORIDA – An emergency room doctor at UF Health said the hospital saw a surge in patients over the Christmas holiday as a severe flu season and common colds drove higher volumes, especially among children.\nRELATED: Flu is rising rapidly, driven by a ... [2647 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2026/01/02/uf-health-doctor-says-there-was-a-surge-in-flu-cold-patients-during-christmas/",
            "image": "https://res.cloudinary.com/graham-media-group/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_thumb,w_700/v1/media/gmg/C57IA4NZRNEW3LIFUUJRH5FBGE.jpg?_a=DATAg1eAZAA0",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-02T20:46:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0e93db102633ab4be5586f837c47e71b",
                "name": "News4JAX",
                "url": "https://www.news4jax.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5bacb0dd229d955e34add84a36c37e5a",
            "title": "A woman dies from cervical cancer every two minutes, UN says",
            "description": "A flood of questions drowned Jeanette in thought after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Would she be unable to conceive a child? Would she have to enter menopause at the early age of 31?",
            "content": "“I felt betrayed by my body,” she told the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of an initiative to eliminate the disease.\nCervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women, took Jeanette’s life a year after she was diagnosed. In January eac... [2074 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166696",
            "image": "https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Collections/Embargoed/17-11-2025-UNICEF-Bangladesh.jpg/image770x420cropped.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-02T20:35:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "81925310763e66b0ad732998459fe288",
                "name": "UN News",
                "url": "https://news.un.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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