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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": 188212,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b54bcca9550de90b87e3c5511ab75ec4",
            "title": "New library scheme helps Tipperary residents detect cancer-causing radon",
            "description": "Through the scheme, library users can borrow a digital radon monitor just like a book, gaining a snapshot of radon levels in their homes.",
            "content": "Tipperary County Council Library Service has announced the launch of a new Radon Monitor Loan Scheme, enabling members of the public to borrow digital radon monitors to check radon levels in their homes.\nThe 'Healthy Ireland at Your Library' initiati... [2562 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.tipperarylive.ie/news/local-news/2050806/new-library-scheme-helps-tipperary-residents-detect-cancer-causing-radon.html",
            "image": "https://www.tipperarylive.ie/resizer/1200/700/true/2026_03_30/029A5948-1774882458799.jpg--new_library_scheme_helps_tipperary_residents_detect_cancer_causing_radon.jpg?1774882459615",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T07:32:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f0f968eb297c15fc91f6ceef70391e37",
                "name": "Tipperary Live",
                "url": "https://www.tipperarylive.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "064fbe36c39c46797377d394a239a2d7",
            "title": "You might be interested in…Prevention",
            "description": "This week Dr Ray O’Connor considers some recent papers which touch on disease prevention",
            "content": "This week Dr Ray O’Connor considers some recent papers which touch on disease prevention\nVaccine preventable Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)\nThis was a prospective, population-based CAP surveillance study1 at three hospitals in Germany. All patien... [8886 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.imt.ie/clinical/you-might-be-interested-inprevention-31-03-2026/",
            "image": "https://d1l0gza1nowsqe.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/03/GettyImages-2206076457-caffeine-620.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T07:18:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9abece19179cd866062599b53d837d3c",
                "name": "Irish Medical Times",
                "url": "https://www.imt.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ddaf4c13b7ba24e967ab0fbeb4ab580d",
            "title": "Dr Catherine Conlon: Meningitis fears have helped underline benefits of vaccines",
            "description": "It is easy to be hesitant about vaccines when the actual risk of infection is low. When the very real threat of a pathogenic organism occurs, we are ...",
            "content": "A recent outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in Kent in the UK prompted a campaign to vaccinate thousands of young people.\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said that 20 cases had been confirmed linked to the outbreak, including tragically two d... [6704 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.echolive.ie/corkviews/arid-41819066.html",
            "image": "https://www.echolive.ie/cms_media/module_img/10044/5022170_1_seoimageog_Copy_20of_202.83937117.jpg.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T06:26:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f960a5c7170d668a44d9dcd52b0d2d0a",
                "name": "echo live",
                "url": "https://www.echolive.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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