Ireland News API

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

Get API key for the Ireland 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=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 319316,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2a9ebfc868e2e563abf3212412ccd805",
            "title": "Poem: Keep your friends close and ChatGPT closer",
            "description": "A poem by Ella McLoughlin, age 17, Co Wexford",
            "content": "Hello, ChatGPT, haven’t heard of you,\nTeacher said to try this, ‘You might learn something new’,\nI’ll give it a go if it’ll keep Miss quiet,\nIt’s a once-off thing, I may as well try it.\nEvents of the Cold War, please, bullet-point form,\nWhy are count... [789 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/05/24/poem-keep-your-friends-close-and-chatgpt-closer/",
            "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/YUAG4JUUVZGGVHCPGT5OIUB2X4.jpg?smart=true&auth=2b32444ec0fea77cef41895508e8f1d20b530a4ab64f874d86a9326dcb35cdcd&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-24T04:03:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27",
                "name": "The Irish Times",
                "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7d0d2a242c76db4dc39d4a358c85b9c4",
            "title": "Man shot dead after firing shots at officers outside the White House",
            "description": "A bystander was also shot during the exchange of fire.",
            "content": "A GUNMAN WHO opened fire outside the White House has died after being shot dead, the Secret Service has said.\nA number of gun shots were fired near the White House at around 11.30pm Irish time (6.30pm in Washington DC) on Saturday.\nThe man fired at S... [958 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/shots-fired-white-house-7049880-May2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/7049880/river/?height=400&version=7049898",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-23T23:13:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "223515c1afa32c40cfa3fa5d23dc539d",
            "title": "Ennis closing in on Dublin Central bye-election victory",
            "description": "Social Democrats' Daniel Ennis has taken a commanding lead in the Dublin Central bye-election and is closing in on victory after eight counts.",
            "content": "Social Democrats' Daniel Ennis has taken a commanding lead in the Dublin Central bye-election and is closing in on victory after eight counts.\nMr Ennis leads Sinn Féin's Janice Boylan by 1,096 votes with the final count to come later tonight.\nHe topp... [3245 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0523/1574844-dublin-central/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/002469b6-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-23T23:01:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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