Ireland Sports News API

Get the live top sports 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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This request returns the current top sports 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=sports&country=ie&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --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": "sports", "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: "sports",
    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" => "sports",
    "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=sports&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": 299314,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0fd8f8f764e8b23bd74b65758987d7e2",
            "title": "Lisandro Martinez: Man Utd defender releases statement to clarify outburst but does not apologise",
            "description": "Man Utd defender Lisandro Martinez called out the clubs hierarchy after their Champions League loss at Atletico Madrid; Martinez said he had expected more from upstairs, singling out technical director Jason Wilcox",
            "content": "Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez has clarified his outburst after Tuesday's Champions League loss at Atletico Madrid in a statement - but stopped short of an apology.\nMartinez launched an extraordinary attack on the club's hierarchy after... [3907 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.skysports.com/football/news/13599417/lisandro-martinez-man-utd-defender-releases-statement-to-clarify-outburst-but-does-not-apologise",
            "image": "https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/1600x900/skysports-lisandro-martinez_7376571.jpg?20261014092822",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:37:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "375c6022b40a085995083df0ed1ac413",
                "name": "Sky Sports",
                "url": "https://www.skysports.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9ecba72873ffbd08abb7ffe4f113b08a",
            "title": "Parrott's Betis overcome Porto",
            "description": "Troy Parrott's Real Betis claimed their second consecutive Champions League win as a late penalty clinched a 3-2 home win over Porto.",
            "content": "Troy Parrott's Real Betis claimed their second consecutive Champions League win as a late penalty clinched a 3-2 home win over Porto.\nParrott made his first start in the competition, after he came off the bench to snatch the winner against Lille on t... [2499 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/1014/1595341-champions-league-wrap-parrotts-betis-overcome-porto/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/00252caf-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:00:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5420e07d83471431955e3ac2e2546a74",
            "title": "PSG on 'different level' - are they building greatest European dynasty?",
            "description": "Paris St-Germain are eyeing a third successive Champions League crown after dismantling Manchester City, but where do they rank against Europe's most dominant clubs?",
            "content": "Some find success sweet but fleeting, others spend years building to the pinnacle, and then there are those whose lasting glory evolves into a dynasty.\nAfter tearing Manchester City apart in large spells of their 4-2 Champions League victory on Wedne... [2917 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cmx2wegg2pw5o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/0231/live/1094d0e0-c816-11f1-82ac-736cd3146b70.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:55:37Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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