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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": 188736,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "17096172a2e1ed80168042737a7ca711",
            "title": "Clean air project brings health boost to two Inishowen Schools",
            "description": "Scoil Naomh Bríd, Muff, and iCARE Buncrana received a Smart Air Blast air purifier, donated by Smart Air UK, during a visit attended by Minister Charlie ...",
            "content": "A successful clean air initiative organised by Buncrana GP Dr Ciara Steele was marked this week with the presentation of a state-of-the-art air purifier to two Inishowen schools, highlighting growing awareness of the importance of indoor air quality ... [4503 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.donegallive.ie/news/inishowen-md/2010250/clean-air-project-brings-health-boost-to-two-inishowen-schools.html",
            "image": "https://www.donegallive.ie/resizer/1200/700/true/2026_02_08/IMG_0168_Cropped-1770575314225.jpg--clean_air_project_brings_health_boost_to_two_inishowen_schools.jpg?1770575314784",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-08T21:02:33Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a3b56a09e97b75eff9c4bc2fd3669966",
                "name": "Donegal Live",
                "url": "https://www.donegallive.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "373a2d467988fb655ab90fa5cc840db8",
            "title": "Patients facing growing delays for diagnoses",
            "description": "THOUSANDS of local people face the wait of a lifetime each month in Fermanagh, and unfortunately it appears that wait is becoming even longer.",
            "content": "THOUSANDS of local people face the wait of a lifetime each month in Fermanagh, and unfortunately it appears that wait is becoming even longer.\nBetween the beginning of July and the end of September last year, a total of 20,475 people in the Western T... [857 chars]",
            "url": "https://fermanaghherald.com/2026/02/patients-facing-growing-delays-for-diagnoses/",
            "image": "https://fermanaghherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/shutterstock-home-hospital-2494845927_3404177.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-08T21:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e0110662cf263e65085663f6824bea2e",
                "name": "The Fermanagh Herald",
                "url": "https://fermanaghherald.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6226b4038a036ce5d101909878238c15",
            "title": "First patients have surgery using robot at Margate hospital",
            "description": "The robot, named Hugo, is being used at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate.",
            "content": "The first patients have had surgery using a multi-million-pound robot at a hospital in Kent.\nAt the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, Mandy Lee was the first person to have a robotic procedure using the system, named Hugo.\n... [1188 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4dj0wle2o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2f88/live/cbc3ea30-0521-11f1-b327-21d8422c4f26.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-08T19:10:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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