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": 215928,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "83073837cf7dda6a0a165fc41351d299",
            "title": "Woman alleges gardaí targeted her relationship through ‘ruse’ apartment search",
            "description": "She alleges that she was falsely branded or implied to be a “major criminal” and a “serious female gouger” on WhatsApp messages allegedly sent by gardaí.",
            "content": "A BARRISTER HAS likened the garda execution of a search warrant at a Dublin apartment to the film ‘The Lives of Others’, which centres on German Stasi surveillance practices.\nThe High Court is hearing a case taken by Sinead Warren, who was present at... [3062 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/courts-garda-search-apartment-stasi-7034888-May2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/7034888/river/?height=400&version=7034899",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T21:31:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "de841f5a80049508fdaa1b06b3009ba8",
            "title": "Woman who swallowed €80k worth of cocaine sought help from Dublin hotel fearing pellet could burst",
            "description": "A court heard that the woman told hotel staff using a translation app that she’d ingested what she suspected to be cocaine pellets.",
            "content": "A WOMAN WHO ingested €80,000 of cocaine was brought to a Dublin hospital after she told staff at the hotel where she was staying that she was concerned a pellet could burst.\nGeorgia Arante Rodrigues (27) came forward from the District Court on signed... [2647 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/court-cocaine-brazil-pellets-dublin-7034842-May2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/7034842/river/?height=400&version=7034845",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T20:48:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7f8aaf47ad9919a59d376d68445c6290",
            "title": "This country is expected to hold a referendum on joining the EU",
            "description": "Thomas Byrne, Minister of State for EU Affairs, said Ireland would welcome such a referendum.",
            "content": "ICELAND HAS BECOME the latest country to moot joining the European Union.\nIn the lead up to Ireland taking over the European presidency in July, several countries have made their desire to join the club known.\nThomas Byrne, Ireland’s Minister of Stat... [2450 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/this-country-is-expected-to-hold-a-referendum-on-whether-it-should-join-the-eu-7034791-May2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/7034791/river/?height=400&version=7034793",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T19:14:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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