Ireland Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from Ireland with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Ireland Nation 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=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 218124,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c558d08af9df10ddb29063dd26daeeea",
            "title": "SF candidate for Galway",
            "description": "Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says her party's candidate in the Galway West bye-election is able to speak Gaeilge and believes he will participate in Irish language interviews and candidate debates.",
            "content": "Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says her party's candidate in the Galway West bye-election is able to speak Gaeilge and believes he will participate in Irish language interviews and candidate debates.\nSinn Féin members in south Conamara had expres... [2934 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0426/1570297-sinn-fein-bye-election/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/002447d2-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T14:30:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "rte.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "53ad330a4fe5ba27735d112d66acde9d",
            "title": "BREAKING: Limerick motorway closed after lorry carrying heavy machinery leaves road",
            "description": "The road traffic incident occurred shortly after 1.30pm",
            "content": "THE M20 Limerick to Cork motorway is closed in both directions on the outskirts of the city this Sunday afternoon following a road traffic collision.\nIt occurred close to Junction 4 Patrickswell around 1.30pm. The single-vehicle incident involved a l... [814 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/motoring-news/2070437/breaking-limerick-motorway-closed-after-lorry-carrying-heavy-machinery-leaves-road.html",
            "image": "https://www.limerickleader.ie/resizer/1200/700/true/2026_04_26/Untitled-1777211883363_1777212019.jpg--breaking__limerick_motorway_closed_after_lorry_carrying_heavy_machinery_leaves_road.jpg?1777212019800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T14:07:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "16286a116943f7648aa213d96102672e",
                "name": "Limerick Leader",
                "url": "https://www.limerickleader.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "85198ebda7d3041e3efeb170bf773251",
            "title": "Dolphin stranded in Dublin dies despite rescue efforts",
            "description": "A dolphin that became stranded on a south Dublin beach has died, despite a multi-agency attempt to rescue it and refloat it out at sea.",
            "content": "A dolphin that became stranded on a south Dublin beach has died, despite a multi-agency attempt to rescue it and refloat it out at sea.\nThe large fully-grown male dolphin which weighed around 100kg and was around 2.3 metres long was found stranded on... [2745 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2026/0426/1570291-dolphin-dublin-beach/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/002447bb-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T13:43:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "rte.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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