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": 188898,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b3dbd7706aba0c39e6a2177949391ea3",
            "title": "Expert shares urgent health warning to anyone who took eight common medications this week",
            "description": "Health experts have warned that the recent heatwave could have a negative effect on certain medicines urging caution to the million who take them over the coming weeks",
            "content": "Health experts have warned that the recent heatwave could have a negative effect on certain medicines urging caution to the million who take them over the coming weeks\nWhile rainfall may have dampened our summer spirits today, Ireland has enjoyed a b... [2994 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rsvplive.ie/life/expert-shares-urgent-health-warning-37226706",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.rsvplive.ie/article37216112.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_GettyImages-1430797930.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T17:09:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "16e5e43933527e466bbad6f40bbf6e38",
                "name": "RSVP Live",
                "url": "https://www.rsvplive.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fd7c4d9fc4919b97949089c702471bca",
            "title": "MSF says Ebola spreading at 'unprecedented rate'",
            "description": "French aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that the latest Ebola outbreak - the 17th since 1976 - was spreading at an \"unprecedented\" pace.",
            "content": "French aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that the latest Ebola outbreak - the 17th since 1976 - was spreading at an \"unprecedented\" pace.\n\"Never before has an Ebola outbreak recorded so many cases so soon after its declaration,\" sai... [4385 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0530/1576058-who-ebola-congo/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/002473e0-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T17:02:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "580ef4a326c0bd9595e41d851114e1cd",
            "title": "Targeted drug shows promise for people with advanced bowel cancer in early trial",
            "description": "One patient taking part in the trial said the therapy has given her a ‘new lease of life’.",
            "content": "The combination shrank tumours in some patients and stopped cancer from progressing in others, researchers said.\nOne patient taking part in the trial said the therapy has given her a “new lease of life”.\nOzekibart mimics a natural protein in the body... [2532 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/national/26152305.targeted-drug-shows-promise-people-advanced-bowel-cancer-early-trial/",
            "image": "https://www.impartialreporter.com/resources/images/20985096.jpg?type=og-image",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T14:09:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5e7c79a60f48f8e89a13da6df7680206",
                "name": "The Impartial Reporter",
                "url": "https://www.impartialreporter.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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