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": 195000,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b0c53961210f0bb423e5dd5b95aa9e00",
            "title": "All you need to know about hantavirus",
            "description": "Ireland's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Mary Horgan, joined Florence in the news2day studio to tell us about hantavirus - it's time for another news2day Explainer.",
            "content": "Ireland's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Mary Horgan, joined Florence in the news2day studio to tell us about a rare hantavirus outbreak - it's time for another news2day Explainer.\nPress play on the image above to watch the Explainer in full and re... [2278 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/kids/news2day/2026/0512/1573008-rte-news-news2day-explainer-all-you-need-to-know-about-hantavirus/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/00245636-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T16:29:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f5ab79718af60ffc4cf97821c19a15d7",
            "title": "Woman's heartfelt plea for Kilkenny people to get checked for 'silent killer'",
            "description": "A woman diagnosed with high blood pressure has urged everyone in Kilkenny to get theirs checked",
            "content": "A woman diagnosed with high blood pressure has urged everyone in Kilkenny to get theirs checked after research found the ‘silent killer’ is not being properly diagnosed or treated among the over-50s.\nRebecca Fitzsimons, 71, told how despite being gen... [3425 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local-news/2081691/woman-s-heartfelt-plea-for-kilkenny-people-to-get-checked-for-silent-killer.html",
            "image": "https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/resizer/1200/700/true/2026_05_12/Rebecca_Fitzsimons-1778595263843.jpg--woman_s_heartfelt_plea_for_kilkenny_people_to_get_checked_out_for__silent_killer_.jpg?1778595264590",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T14:23:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "87cad03d12379f38077d84538d3dbd68",
                "name": "Kilkenny People",
                "url": "https://www.kilkennypeople.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "84309ba7b4fd5a26298e736a5bddbf14",
            "title": "Dutch hospital quarantines 12 over breach of hantavirus protocol",
            "description": "In the latest report of a potential case, Italy's ANSA ​news agency said a 25-year-old Italian man who had flown on a KLM flight with a woman who died of hantavirus had been taken to hospital with symptom",
            "content": "Quarantining of the medics illustrates the challenge of quickly introducing and implementing stricter protocols needed in ‌hospitals and elsewhere for dealing with this strain of the hantavirus.\nInternational medical officials are working to contain ... [3992 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41843592.html",
            "image": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/10154/5077203_3_seoimageog_GettyImages-2274865249_1_.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T14:08:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "634dc62a3fe9c48f4c2cc004e680a220",
                "name": "Irish Examiner",
                "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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