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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": 188174,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8b2435918c1471d54dcee901dae39c2c",
            "title": "Simple lemon trick helps lower blood sugar levels in minutes",
            "description": "Lemon juice helps reduce blood sugar spikes by 30% in a matter of minutes, according to a new European scientific study.",
            "content": "Lemon juice has been shown to cut the post-meal blood sugar peak from white bread by about 30 percent and delay that surge by more than half an hour.\nBy slowing the rush of glucose into the bloodstream, it reshapes what happens in the first critical ... [4944 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/news/simple-lemon-trick-helps-lower-blood-sugar-levels-in-minutes/",
            "image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2026/02/14101221/lemon-juice-lower-blood-sugar-30-percent.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-15T19:18:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
                "name": "Earth.com",
                "url": "https://www.earth.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c7ef9285f43d0d074cfc385c8f869ab6",
            "title": "Long lost disease discovered inside a 5,500-year-old skeleton",
            "description": "5,500-year-old skeleton found in Colombia with bacteria linked to syphilis that could change its historical origin.",
            "content": "A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike any circulating today.\nThat deep divergence pushes the history of these infections in the Americas back thousands of years and ... [5346 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/news/long-lost-disease-with-syphilis-dna-discovered-inside-a-5500-year-old-skeleton/",
            "image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2026/02/14104609/prehistoric-skeleton-colombia-ancient-syphilis-genome.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-15T19:18:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
                "name": "Earth.com",
                "url": "https://www.earth.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "98aba20c9cd47087a9a7cb8a13a74236",
            "title": "Donation to Portlaoise hospital to help care for dementia patients",
            "description": "Friends of Portlaoise Hospital provide resources for people living with dementia and cognitive decline",
            "content": "The Friends of Portlaoise Hospital has made a donation of a range of activity resources to the Dementia and Older Persons Service at the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise.\nThe resources will support patients living with dementia and cognitive decl... [2550 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-live/2016080/donation-to-portlaoise-hospital-to-help-care-for-dementia-patients.html",
            "image": "https://www.ireland-live.ie/resizer/1200/700/true/2026_02_13/ilee_07_Dementia_care_1-1771006436302.jpg--donation_to_portlaoise_hospital_to_help_care_for_dementia_patients.jpg?1771006436757",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-15T16:36:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3541a6aff5fb33dd974a93a600a58aff",
                "name": "Ireland Live",
                "url": "https://www.ireland-live.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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