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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": 179928,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d49ab2ef873c087dbb20101ad49b36b4",
            "title": "Former driving instructor who fraudulently sat 21 theory tests is jailed for a year",
            "description": "The judge said Daniel Trifan was ‘a perfect candidate’ for the scheme in which customers paid up to €2,500 to have someone else sit their tests.",
            "content": "A FORMER DRIVING instructor who fraudulently carried out 21 driver theory tests for money has been jailed for a year.\nThe judge said that the qualified HGV driver was ‘a perfect candidate’ for the very elaborate scheme in which customers paid up to €... [2720 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/former-driving-instructor-sat-21-theory-tests-jailed-6928498-Jan2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/6928498/river/?height=400&version=6928500",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-16T07:13:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "be080ad56996d4475579eec45e563358",
            "title": "Brianna Parkins: I hate the Dublin Bushman and his scaring of young women for money",
            "description": "I hate the bushman. Or rather what he does, which is scaring people, filming it and monetising it on the internet",
            "content": "My list of enemies is long and most of them don’t know they’re on it. Because 99 per cent of them probably don’t know I exist. I like to keep my feuds one-sided, long distance and inconsequential.\nThere are all the writers of the poems I had to analy... [3985 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/01/16/i-hate-the-dublin-bushman-who-scares-young-women-for-money/",
            "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WY4VSELFE5B2PDCHB5MHQQHLTA.jpg?smart=true&auth=3c41e30cebf47cd1c7578b26e154646bcd3d961e257e46aa043b3164cedfcc02&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-16T06:00:41Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27",
                "name": "The Irish Times",
                "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8454fcc98b6effada45af8b95d5c7388",
            "title": "Plans to redesignate Dunsink to build thousands of homes",
            "description": "Lands around what was once Dublin's largest dump are to be redesignated by Fingal County Council to develop a major urban quarter with capacity for thousands of new homes.",
            "content": "Lands around what was once Dublin's largest dump are to be redesignated by Fingal County Council to develop a major urban quarter with capacity for thousands of new homes.\nThe local authority said more than 1,000 acres of land in the Dunsink area, lo... [5421 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2026/0116/1553361-dunsink-plans/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/0023bf10-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-16T06:00:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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