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": 201554,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "58c6c2b43820becda40d531ce5794e34",
            "title": "Targeting metabolic pathways could prevent relapse in KRAS-mutant cancers",
            "description": "Our cells rely on tightly regulated signaling pathways to control when they grow, divide, and survive. When these regulatory systems are disrupted, cells can acquire the ability to grow uncontrollably and become cancerous.",
            "content": "Our cells rely on tightly regulated signaling pathways to control when they grow, divide, and survive. When these regulatory systems are disrupted, cells can acquire the ability to grow uncontrollably and become cancerous. One of the most important c... [4590 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260625/Targeting-metabolic-pathways-could-prevent-relapse-in-KRAS-mutant-cancers.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/image-handler/picture/2014/7/174318220-620x480.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T16:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a89e663943a4a1cdecf36d7093baac19",
            "title": "Moving beyond coverage estimates: using Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in zero-dose programming",
            "description": "Average vaccination coverage figures can mask deep inequalities at subdistrict levels – explore the new Zero-Dose Learning Hub's Lot Quality Insurance Sampling toolkit built for decentralised decision-making.",
            "content": "In immunisation programmes, national and district estimates of coverage are often used to track progress. But those averages can conceal the variation at subdistrict levels where children are still being missed, often in the same communities. For pro... [5178 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/moving-beyond-coverage-estimates-using-lot-quality-assurance-sampling-zero-dose",
            "image": "https://www.gavi.org/sites/default/files/vaccineswork/2026/header/Uganda-zdlh_h1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T14:42:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5f776fe7a8acab845ca9a339d4437a16",
                "name": "Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance",
                "url": "https://www.gavi.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "36637993e0ed12b944a4dc53fdb5640f",
            "title": "Taoiseach encourages people to take part in mental wellbeing poster competition",
            "description": "The project creates ‘an opportunity for people to express their feelings though art’.",
            "content": "By Gráinne Ní Aodha, Press Association\nA poster competition that aims to highlight how art can help support mental wellbeing has made its final call for submissions.\nThe closing date for entries to the Mental Health Matters poster campaign is July 5t... [1868 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.roscommonherald.ie/taoiseach-encourages-people-to-take-part-in-mental-wellbeing-poster-competition_arid-102973.html",
            "image": "https://www.roscommonherald.ie/cms_media/module_img/7712/3856272_1_articledetail_2-85077947.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T14:38:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "87d505fcb3f691a50327fec99808bc35",
                "name": "roscommonherald.ie",
                "url": "https://www.roscommonherald.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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