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": 215198,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9e8ddc293e15dd6201ad5c10e26e8f15",
            "title": "UK says third British person has suspected hantavirus",
            "description": "Britain's health ⁠security agency has said that an additional suspected case of hantavirus had been identified in a British ‌national ⁠on the South Atlantic island of Tristan de Cunha.",
            "content": "Britain's health ⁠security agency has said that an additional suspected case of hantavirus had been identified in a British ‌national ⁠on the South Atlantic island of Tristan de Cunha.\nTwo British nationals have been confirmed ‌as cases of hantavirus... [4245 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0508/1572287-hantavirus-cruise-ship/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/00245476-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T04:46:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cc73f82d75a8e5b3c37bcc272b2bab24",
            "title": "Countries track passengers of virus-hit cruise ship",
            "description": "Countries worldwide sought to prevent the further spread of the hantavirus, after an outbreak on a cruise ship, by tracking those who had disembarked before the virus was detected ⁠and anyone who had close contact with them since.",
            "content": "Countries worldwide sought to prevent the further spread of the hantavirus, after an outbreak on a cruise ship, by tracking those who had disembarked before the virus was detected ⁠and anyone who had close contact with them since.\nThree people - a Du... [3838 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0508/1572287-hantavirus-cruise-world/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/00245476-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T04:46:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "36171a66dfdf84a5112c87b50c91e489",
            "title": "Hantavirus: WHO does not ‘anticipate a large epidemic’ as five cruise ship cases confirmed",
            "description": "Concern about MV Hondius passengers who disembarked at St Helena and others who have reportedly returned to the US",
            "content": "Countries worldwide are scrambling to trace people who had left the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak before it got marooned off the coast of Cape Verde, to prevent ​further spread of the disease.\nThree people – a Dutch couple and a German nat... [7499 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/world/2026/05/07/we-dont-anticipate-a-large-epidemic-who-said-it-expects-hantavirus-outbreak-to-be-limited/",
            "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IXZMPSFGQBEMDKA5WNX6XMJCHI.jpg?smart=true&auth=e0d38b710514818c8a4c1a5dcbb8fb3758c3f26245f4a9b9ba9d58b6c9097af3&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T14:16:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27",
                "name": "The Irish Times",
                "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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