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": 184436,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "65ab7d3421f8a734a8e564acf5f0f0d5",
            "title": "Three new Ebola cases confirmed in Uganda",
            "description": "Uganda said on Saturday it had confirmed three new cases of Ebola, bringing to five the total since the virus outbreak was discovered in the east African country on 15 May.",
            "content": "Uganda said on Saturday it had confirmed three new cases of Ebola, bringing to five the total since the virus outbreak was discovered in the east African country on 15 May.\n\"Three new cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been confirmed in the ... [2213 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0523/1574867-three-new-ebola-cases-confirmed-in-uganda/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/0024691c-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-23T10:16:44Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "27b55d9ee282c609404c07f7c0c8efd2",
            "title": "An Irish doctor was due to come home from the DRC - then the Ebola outbreak hit",
            "description": "Eve Robinson said her parents are naturally worried, but it’s also not her first time doing this work.",
            "content": "EVE ROBINSON WAS supposed to be coming home to Ireland next week from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but that changed when a fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus was reported in the central African Country.\nAn epidemiologist from Drogheda ... [3385 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-doctor-ebola-congo-7048225-May2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/7048225/river/?height=400&version=7048327",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-23T05:31:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2d1fd7735181d1a847b6d90b72c1d753",
            "title": "What is immunotherapy and how does it treat cancer and other conditions?",
            "description": "From infections and allergies to brain diseases and autoimmune disorders, a wave of trials offers hope",
            "content": "How do cancer immunotherapies work?\nCancer patients have seen great benefits from immunotherapies and dozens are now approved for more than 30 types of cancer. Some tumours evade the body’s defences by switching off immune cells, but antibody-based d... [3979 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/22/what-are-immunotherapies-and-how-do-they-treat-cancer-and-other-conditions",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bb697fcc861a81edeb09f492f2f4b9d08ddb4641/9_0_1350_1080/master/1350.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=f9010e24002f9ae1f331fd23e622282a",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T17:42:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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