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Ireland Health News API

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

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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": 198102,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6864d87bbe1de90e0c4eb0a04cc1c99e",
            "title": "Health in NI: Do 40% of women wrongly believe cervical smear tests for ovarian cancer?",
            "description": "During a 16 March debate on a women’s health strategy, DUP MLA Diane Forsythe claimed that: “Target Ovarian Cancer reports that 40% of women mistakenly believe that their cervical screening will detect ovarian cancer. It is so important to highlight that those tests do not detect ovarian cancer and that women need to understand the...",
            "content": "Cervical screening is a test designed to help prevent cervical cancer. It does not check for any other reproductive cancers, such as ovarian cancer.\nResearch from charity Target Ovarian Cancer indicates 40% of UK women mistakenly believe cervical scr... [4013 chars]",
            "url": "https://factcheckni.org/articles/health-in-ni-do-40-of-women-wrongly-believe-cervical-smear-tests-for-ovarian-cancer/",
            "image": "https://factcheckni.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Untitled-1200-x-630-px-2.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T08:08:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d8994eabf5a0b4dbd98ed77a84dda8bf",
                "name": "FactCheckNI",
                "url": "https://factcheckni.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "58e5c4f32b89aabba888765170bbdffa",
            "title": "Family raise awareness of 14-month-old daughter’s mystery illness",
            "description": "Elyza began experiencing symptoms at just two months old.",
            "content": "Yasmin Whittington’s daughter Elyza suffers from an unknown condition that causes sickness, poor feeding, low muscle tone and chronic fatigue.\nElyza began experiencing symptoms at two months old, and has since spent months in hospital and undergone m... [3335 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/national/25998851.family-raise-awareness-14-month-old-daughters-mystery-illness/",
            "image": "https://www.impartialreporter.com/resources/images/20753641.jpg?type=og-image",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T06:33:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5e7c79a60f48f8e89a13da6df7680206",
                "name": "The Impartial Reporter",
                "url": "https://www.impartialreporter.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e28d60e36d551de82c49f51640123715",
            "title": "‘He was back on in five minutes’: The former Munster captain now suffering with dementia",
            "description": "Dementia came early for Donal Canniffe, who captained Ireland, but deterioration has been ‘extremely slow’, says his wife Mary",
            "content": "Former rugby international Donal Canniffe greets me in a Dublin hotel with a handshake and then a snippet of a song.\n“I know she likes me, because she says so,” he cheerfully sings from Lily of Laguna, recorded by Bing Crosby and Mary Martin in the 1... [9701 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-family/2026/04/07/he-was-back-on-in-five-minutes-the-former-munster-captain-now-suffering-with-dementia/",
            "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K25HRTCR3VEEZPWVBIXE4DRBWY.JPG?smart=true&auth=6928c490864c34aa3edddb7ca1956ccd44d5d596ab45662345e37eedf1e3aae3&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T05:01:33Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27",
                "name": "The Irish Times",
                "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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