Ireland Nation News API

Get the live top nation 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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Request and live response

This request returns the current top nation 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=nation&country=ie&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=nation" \
  --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": "nation", "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: "nation",
    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" => "nation",
    "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=nation&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": 273396,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ecf696eafcb68544aa6492812583014a",
            "title": "Traffic disruption expected in capital during EU meetings",
            "description": "Dublin will experience significant disruption for four days next week as the largest policing operation in the history of the State takes place as part of Ireland's EU Presidency.",
            "content": "Dublin will experience significant disruption for four days next week as the largest policing operation in the history of the State takes place as part of Ireland's EU Presidency.\nEuropean leaders are meeting in the capital next Thursday and Friday b... [2367 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/1104/1597879-policing-operation-ireland/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/001ed68d-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:03:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "31753a7b404b769cded3e9baa513fc15",
            "title": "Major Kinahan associate arrested in Spain in connection with suspected murder",
            "description": "The suspected hitman, who is an associate of the late gangster Martin 'Marlo' Hyland, was arrested in Spain this week on the foot of a European Arrest Warrant and in relation to a Spanish-led murder probe",
            "content": "A major Kinahan cartel associate has been arrested in Spain over a suspected murder and on the foot of an Irish warrant.\nThe suspected hitman, who is an associate of the late gangster Martin 'Marlo' Hyland, was arrested in Spain this week on the foot... [1932 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/major-kinahan-associate-arrested-spain-37840133",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.irishmirror.ie/article37840176.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_GettyImages-2205874538.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T21:35:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3f207a072857e314b4314cf28017474e",
                "name": "Irish Mirror",
                "url": "https://www.irishmirror.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a95cfc761de649f48646e1918491fe63",
            "title": "Luas red line services disrupted after car gets stuck on track",
            "description": "Services are not operating between Belgard and Heuston Luas stops",
            "content": "The red line Luas service has been disrupted by a car getting stuck on the tracks.\nServices are not operating between Belgard and Heuston Luas stops due to the vehicle entering the Luas track near the stop at Blackhorse and becoming trapped.\nIn a pos... [596 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2026/11/03/luas-red-line-services-disrupted-after-car-gets-stuck-on-track/",
            "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/DKLRF5427JBFBMGGMZJPV46GY4.jpg?smart=true&auth=5e408ce31ffb6d85f06e5b1bb366d62f69854bd065e5de08066686e8223a2286&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T20:44:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27",
                "name": "The Irish Times",
                "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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