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": 224432,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "69b917710344d9489d397bfcc1590887",
            "title": "Investigation after man (30s) dies following incident on Dublin's Henry Street",
            "description": "The incident has also been referred to Fiosrú, the garda ombudsman.",
            "content": "GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in his 30s following an incident in Dublin city centre on Friday.\nShortly after 5pm, gardaí were alerted after security personnel detained a man on Henry Street in connection w... [1150 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/investigation-man-dies-incident-dublin-henry-street-7041547-May2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/7041547/river/?height=400&version=7041560",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T09:23:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "thejournal.ie",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a34e0ee22ba2670a8fb225553e0cc29d",
            "title": "How is Bertie Ahern still finding new ways to disappoint us?",
            "description": "It was a tale of two Taoiseachs this week.",
            "content": "REMEMBER A FEW months back, in the lead up to the passing of the Residential Tenancies Bill, which essentially allowed landlords to reset rents at market rates rather than the 2% they’d been beholden to before, as long as the property was vacant?\nYou... [8436 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/surrealing-in-the-years-126-7039082-May2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/7039082/river/?height=400&version=7040473",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T08:01:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "thejournal.ie",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "223fc3817814a265134d0444aacb5a8b",
            "title": "‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author Doireann Ní Ghríofa on recovering from depression",
            "description": "The acclaimed author and poet talks about her new book, telling the true stories of patients at a derelict Victorian psychiatric hospital – a place in which she might have found herself at a different time",
            "content": "Doireann Ní Ghríofa wrote much of her first book of prose, A Ghost in the Throat, sitting in her car on the top floor of a multistorey car park, having dropped her children off at school in Cork city. Whatever works: her imaginative journey into the ... [13720 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/16/im-so-grateful-i-got-to-live-these-days-a-ghost-in-the-throat-author-doireann-ni-ghriofa-on-recovering-from-depression",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/38a72ba3fa149249e32d56525afc8d9af6fba607/0_1897_3648_2917/master/3648.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=cdf029474ff96668354b056a7cedd66e",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T08:01:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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