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": 213246,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "32db0e16fb2cfc2867f8e865372bafda",
            "title": "‘Eventually there will be a cure’: Patients welcome plans for large Dublin biobank",
            "description": "Database gathers patient information, samples and diagnostics to help with outcomes for others",
            "content": "When Noreen Doyle’s son was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of two, she remembers being absolutely terrified.\n“I innocently said ‘leukaemia, like the cancer?’ That was how disconnected I was to the idea of a child having cancer. I had a three-yea... [5016 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/04/27/eventually-there-will-be-a-cure-patients-donate-to-new-biobank-in-hope-of-aiding-research/",
            "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/PGZKHONQ4ZAC7DOIIPVKKIU2WM.jpg?smart=true&auth=d3dda0561ee8ca49e0f92cf526967695fee0f046bd7a5f2da05296ce1c42f3d9&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-27T05:14:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27",
                "name": "The Irish Times",
                "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a31e4991999dec2e6e3cc68873961d9a",
            "title": "How Co Down woman Juliet Bakovljev turned pain into a life-changing wellness movement",
            "description": "After years of illness, loss, and survival, Lisburn entrepreneur Juliet Bakovljev is helping others heal through her wellness hub, The Arzen Collective, writes Anne Hailes",
            "content": "Juliet Cooke and I met many years ago on a beach in Donegal. We were collecting stones when we decided to paint faces on them and do a swap. She was a beautiful child, and she’s still a beautiful child—although now she is Juliet Bakovljev, married wi... [4392 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishnews.com/entertainment/how-co-down-woman-juliet-bakovljev-turned-pain-into-a-life-changing-wellness-movement-IGLUCG37F5B4NB2TX2SZPFYUCM/",
            "image": "https://www.irishnews.com/resizer/v2/JITUB7A5SBAO7MSV3PRJTHWLMI.jpg?smart=true&auth=e3ff7597393b605b1fa4851948612ddc9971d772f5221d35e37f1b6b393e8fa3&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-27T05:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f16efc96d0de1a6b5398d732cce1fe7a",
                "name": "The Irish News",
                "url": "https://www.irishnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2f0153b3126bbe979e8645d195213145",
            "title": "Meet the team in Cork helping to make dementia become a more manageable chronic disease",
            "description": "'Early diagnosis will be commonplace, it will be normalised and early intervention will slow the progression of dementia'",
            "content": "While there has been extensive publicity around medicines that could slow the disease, clinical lead for the centre and Mercy University Hospital consultant geriatrician Rónán O'Caoimh said these were only part of the picture.\nEarlier diagnosis, more... [9057 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41832650.html",
            "image": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/10103/5051783_11_seoimageog_15.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-27T04:46:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "634dc62a3fe9c48f4c2cc004e680a220",
                "name": "Irish Examiner",
                "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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