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": 192436,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "68427b80f579bb12efa1113a30e66477",
            "title": "Balancing Drug Safety and Disease Control in Pregnant Patients With IBD",
            "description": "Uma Mahadevan, MD, shares data on the risk for birth defects when JAK inhibitors are used during pregnancy for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.",
            "content": "Uma Mahadevan, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, shares data on the risk for birth defects from the use of JAK inhibitors during pregnancy for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In this retrospective study, there was no... [5280 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.docwirenews.com/post/birth-defect-risk-from-jak-inhibitor-use-for-ibd-during-pregnancy",
            "image": "https://mumcdnstorage.blob.core.windows.net/dwnews/2026/05/GASTRO_YT_Balancing-Drug-Safety-and-IBD-Control-in-Pregnant-Patients_1280x720.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T18:50:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "885ae2dda50884da7e0cf7fb8d4aa961",
                "name": "Docwire News",
                "url": "https://www.docwirenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5b5dcec1fc79803b2e90bb041756e905",
            "title": "Strokestown woman details her battle with Lyme disease",
            "description": "Her life today is one of physical pain and cognitive fog as if her brain 'is on fire'",
            "content": "Life had been going great for Jennifer O’Beirne from Strokestown – she was studying for her final exams in Trinity, had great friends and family, and was enjoying life as she looked forward to embarking on her chosen career. However, all that was to ... [6076 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.roscommonherald.ie/news/strokestown-woman-details-her-battle-with-lyme-disease_arid-100140.html",
            "image": "https://www.roscommonherald.ie/cms_media/module_img/7704/3852034_3_articledetail_Light_20Up_20Lyme_1_.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T18:35:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "87d505fcb3f691a50327fec99808bc35",
                "name": "roscommonherald.ie",
                "url": "https://www.roscommonherald.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "09f22c8f6b0d47af1e353b80262bbce0",
            "title": "Oz Says Airports Will Have Ebola ‘Testing Tools’ Before World Cup Travel",
            "description": "Oz said the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa was being led by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya.",
            "content": "Oz said the U.S. had a “well constructed game plan” being run by National Institute of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, which is “aggressively” funding treatments for the disease in Africa.\nOz also defended the plan to build a 50-bed facility fo... [10686 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/06/02/dr-oz-says-airports-will-have-ebola-testing-tools-before-world-cup-live-updates/",
            "image": "https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/6a1d7f6c76a6de96a1c03f01/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T18:25:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c4e32b557a3dd75225975f11fb68a3a9",
                "name": "Forbes",
                "url": "https://www.forbes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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