Ireland Entertainment News API

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

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Request and live response

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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($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": 215716,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d7d9fffd0f4d719b83309afebb751564",
            "title": "Emmerdale: Samson Dingle's show future 'confirmed' as he's released from prison",
            "description": "There won't be a welcome-back party anytime soon.",
            "content": "It seems that an Emmerdale character won't return to the Dales after a two-year stint in prison. After leaving the soap in 2024, there appear to be no plans at present to bring back one of the Dingle clan for more scenes.\nreports that the ITV soap wo... [1653 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emmerdale/a74137196/emmerdale-samson-dingle-future-confirmed/",
            "image": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/emmerdale-matty-barton-sam-dingle-samson-dingle-lydia-dingle-amy-wyatt-jpg-666380fb0dca7.jpg?crop=0.436xw:0.355xh;0.527xw,0.104xh&resize=1200:*",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:46:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1cf088fa3eef98a321c96d5809af8824",
                "name": "Digital Spy",
                "url": "https://www.digitalspy.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0b300ae3b56496584b4af6b89e85c1a6",
            "title": "Donegal tweed and talent turn heads at Ireland Fashion Week",
            "description": "A new generation of Donegal designers joined some of the county’s biggest fashion houses for a standout showing at Ireland Fashion Week.Through their catwalk cr...",
            "content": "A new generation of Donegal designers joined some of the county’s biggest fashion houses for a standout showing at Ireland Fashion Week.\nThrough their catwalk creations, local designers championed Donegal's long-standing tweed heritage and won over c... [3421 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.donegaldaily.com/news/donegal-tweed-and-talent-turn-heads-at-ireland-fashion-week-654087",
            "image": "https://i.resized.co/donegaldaily/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3N0b3JhZ2UuZG9uZWdhbGRhaWx5LmNvbVxcXC9wcm9kXFxcL3VwbG9hZHNcXFwvMjAyNlxcXC8xMFxcXC9pbWdfMjA1Mi0xMDI0eDU3Ni5qcGdcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6MTIwMCxcImhlaWdodFwiOjYyNyxcImRlZmF1bHRcIjpcImh0dHBzOlxcXC9cXFwvc3RvcmFnZS5kb25lZ2FsZGFpbHkuY29tXFxcL3Byb2RcXFwvdXBsb2Fkc1xcXC8yMDI2XFxcLzAzXFxcL25vLWltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOltdfSIsImhhc2giOiIyNWFlYzkwZmVlYzc2NThkZmQyYmYzYjBlZTVlYWQ0ZWZkZmI1ZjQ5In0=/donegal-tweed-and-talent-turn-heads-at-ireland-fashion-week.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T19:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dd32aba625980f703e3d3eae2bbebc26",
                "name": "Donegal Daily",
                "url": "https://www.donegaldaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1030bf024a1fbf09d1135d62b1ed6796",
            "title": "Children invited to mark 300 years of Gulliver's Travels",
            "description": "Jonathan Swift's most famous work, Gulliver's Travels, will be turning 300 years old at the end of this month as the power of his writing is translating across to schoolchildren and scholars alike even in the present day.",
            "content": "Jonathan Swift's most famous work, Gulliver's Travels, will be turning 300 years old at the end of this month as the power of his writing is translating across to schoolchildren and scholars alike even in the present day.\nTo mark the milestone, schoo... [2484 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1014/1595412-children-invited-mark-gullivers-travels/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/00252c7e-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T18:02:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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