Ireland Entertainment News API

Get the live top entertainment headlines from Ireland with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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This request returns the current top entertainment headlines from Ireland. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=entertainment&country=ie&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=entertainment" \
  --data-urlencode "country=ie" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "entertainment", "country": "ie", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "entertainment",
    country: "ie",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "entertainment",
    "country"  => "ie",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=entertainment&country=ie&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 239712,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b26adfeff661fc278790cd4e8af46c4b",
            "title": "Tall Tales and Murder review - this Irish version of The Wire makes for mile-a-minute TV",
            "description": "You definitely won’t be bored by the TV take on the first of the Dublin Trilogy novels. But you might well feel confused by this Bonnie and Clyde-style caper through gangland Ireland (featuring Aidan Gillen)",
            "content": "Tall Tales and Murder is likely to elicit varied responses from viewers, but boredom will surely be low on the list. This Irish caper – based on the first of the Dublin Trilogy novels by Caimh McDonnell, and written for TV by Stuart Carolan – moves a... [4030 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/03/tall-tales-and-review-dublin-trilogy-bbc",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9b4068c2e109d0b9dfefcf37c556a9e433d55532/200_0_2398_1920/master/2398.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctcmV2aWV3LTMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=8a35571b0054a81b2a6e4031831442a6",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a6a28f43a7eee1aa8f41b5ddae2ece10",
            "title": "Bond rumours 'bizarre pinch-me moment'",
            "description": "Challengers star Josh O'Connor has said rumours of him playing James Bond are a \"bizarre pinch-me moment\".",
            "content": "Challengers star Josh O'Connor has said rumours of him playing James Bond are a \"bizarre pinch-me moment\".\nThe 36-year-old actor, also known for The Crown, is believed to be in the running for the role alongside One Night Only actor Callum Turner and... [1465 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2026/1103/1597875-josh-oconnor-bond-rumours-bizarre-pinch-me-moment/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/0025474b-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T20:35:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "22df5e0b9f3a856a6dab3899100bcb54",
            "title": "Wild Horse Nine: a quirky companion piece to In Bruges",
            "description": "We are back on an isolated island in the company of two men struggling to communicate with each other in the enigmatic and hugely entertaining new movie from Banshees of Inisherin writer and director Martin McDonagh.",
            "content": "We are back on an isolated island in the company of two men struggling to communicate with each other in the enigmatic and hugely entertaining new movie from Banshees of Inisherin writer and director Martin McDonagh.\nIt’s another wonky bromance from ... [3970 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/movie-reviews/2026/1103/1597711-wild-horse-nine-a-quirky-companion-piece-to-in-bruges/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/00254748-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T19:30:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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