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Ireland Nation News API

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

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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": 186130,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "cdd636ff99cf842e990efafcf7e0db9b",
            "title": "Girl critical and man arrested in Co Offaly collision",
            "description": "A teenage girl is in critical condition following an incident involving a car and two pedestrians in Clara, Co Offaly. The girl was treated at the scene has been taken to Crumlin Hospital in Dublin.",
            "content": "A teenage girl is in critical condition following an incident involving a car and two pedestrians in Clara, Co Offaly. The girl was treated at the scene and has been taken to Crumlin Hospital in Dublin.\nThe second pedestrian, a male also in his mid-t... [838 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0205/1556835-road-incident-offaly/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/00233e0b-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T00:26:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "570cb0bfad864117375635a368f80bef",
            "title": "HSE takes over nursing home in Co Laois after court order",
            "description": "Hiqa found that overall management of Droimnin Nursing Home in Stradbally was ‘ineffective’ in a recent report.",
            "content": "THE HSE HAS taken over the running of a nursing home in Co Laois after the regulator for the sector found significant concerns in how the centre was run.\nIt follows a court order secured this afternoon by the Health Information and Quality Authority ... [1887 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/nursing-home-laois-taken-over-6947386-Feb2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/6947386/river/?height=400&version=6947449",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T22:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "01c5ba7f2e037cb0fdf11e1d8777cba5",
            "title": "There's two by-elections this year and some of the runners and riders have already been announced",
            "description": "The Green Party is the latest party to launch their Dublin-Central candidate today.",
            "content": "THE STARTING GUN on this year’s by-elections has been fired, with a flurry of activity and speculation about candidates for the two races in Dublin-Central and Galway-West constituencies in recent days.\nThe by-elections have been sparked by the depar... [6572 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/by-election-candidates-6947245-Feb2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/6947245/river/?height=400&version=6947309",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T21:01:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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