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": 188778,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "580ef4a326c0bd9595e41d851114e1cd",
            "title": "Targeted drug shows promise for people with advanced bowel cancer in early trial",
            "description": "One patient taking part in the trial said the therapy has given her a ‘new lease of life’.",
            "content": "The combination shrank tumours in some patients and stopped cancer from progressing in others, researchers said.\nOne patient taking part in the trial said the therapy has given her a “new lease of life”.\nOzekibart mimics a natural protein in the body... [2532 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/national/26152305.targeted-drug-shows-promise-people-advanced-bowel-cancer-early-trial/",
            "image": "https://www.impartialreporter.com/resources/images/20985096.jpg?type=og-image",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T14:09:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5e7c79a60f48f8e89a13da6df7680206",
                "name": "The Impartial Reporter",
                "url": "https://www.impartialreporter.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a4c185d95bdec3e95896a79dd827121e",
            "title": "Athy mother launches free autism workshops to support families",
            "description": "“We didn’t know where to turn or what to do. We felt very alone.”",
            "content": "AN ATHY resident and autism awareness advocate is hosting a series of free workshops this June aimed at supporting families of autistic and neurodivergent children, as well as autistic adults, after her own family’s experience with school avoidance a... [5762 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.kildare-nationalist.ie/news/athy-mother-launches-free-autism-workshops-to-support-families_arid-98986.html",
            "image": "https://www.kildare-nationalist.ie/cms_media/module_img/7700/3850338_10_articledetail_AnnMarie_Walsh_and_Erica_Walsh.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T13:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "85d05dd66d9ccae4c286999d984ce24e",
                "name": "kildare-nationalist.ie",
                "url": "https://www.kildare-nationalist.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c6b27b1f80d3b28b92bd0199a3120e5c",
            "title": "I thought my girl just had a cold until lips turned blue & she passed out…condition not on our radar nearly killed her",
            "description": "WHEN little Maya’s lips “turned blue”, her terrified mum knew something was seriously wrong.\nWhat had started as sniffles and a cough had...",
            "content": "WHEN little Maya’s lips “turned blue”, her terrified mum knew something was seriously wrong.\nWhat had started as sniffles and a cough had suddenly spiralled into a life-threatening asthma attack, leaving the eight-year-old pale, wheezing and slipping... [4032 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.ie/health/16962616/health-asthma-attack-symptoms/",
            "image": "https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/05/newspress-collage-he36dtzbk-1780127881598.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&1780131507&w=1920&h=1080&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T12:02:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "75adf8e9d1744f288c0f3845d55cca10",
                "name": "The Irish Sun",
                "url": "https://www.thesun.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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