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": 221918,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "571bd95b01749e3b62c429d0620858f5",
            "title": "Two Supplements For Menopause May Actually Help, Expert Reveals",
            "description": "Social media is saturated with menopause solutions: powders for brain fog, gummies for sleep, or capsules promising hormonal balance.",
            "content": "Social media is saturated with menopause solutions: powders for brain fog, gummies for sleep, or capsules promising hormonal balance. Supplements such as magnesium, lion's mane, creatine, and collagen are being marketed as must-haves for perimenopaus... [6826 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/two-supplements-for-menopause-may-actually-help-expert-reveals",
            "image": "https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/04/Hand-with-pink-fingernails-tipping-two-supplement-capsules-into-palm.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-03T01:04:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "76a2943c768c5c3be7d790e609b40403",
                "name": "ScienceAlert",
                "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2a659beada70e0621647927e5d5c9369",
            "title": "New test promises to detect cancer earlier, from tiny particles in bodily fluids",
            "description": "Cancer claims more than 10 million lives every year globally. Research shows that detecting cancer early can greatly improve a patient's chance of survival. And yet we lack reliable, affordable tools for early detection.",
            "content": "Cancer claims more than 10 million lives every year globally. Research shows that detecting cancer early can greatly improve a patient's chance of survival. And yet we lack reliable, affordable tools for early detection.\nScientists are now discoverin... [5290 chars]",
            "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-cancer-earlier-tiny-particles-bodily.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2025/cancer-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-02T20:30:04Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fc12437cc984742bf9a97820262ab48a",
                "name": "Medical Xpress",
                "url": "https://medicalxpress.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d63a79cefc31cc0b87f3e20d5a1bbf73",
            "title": "‘The happiest time of life is as you get older’: can positive thinking help you age better?",
            "description": "More trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvements",
            "content": "By most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career. He is the director of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing; his decades of highly regarded research has led to work being published in leading scientific journals; and he has b... [6043 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/03/getting-older-ageing-happiest-time-of-life",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9c4a2945c136696ac0a32aaecc24f443d8f5cb7/0_0_5600_4480/master/5600.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=219e9696557eb50a034a4c97b499e243",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-02T20:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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