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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": 218982,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "44de972c86197559582f8af1bcec1eab",
            "title": "Light up for Iggy",
            "description": "The Galway Plaza will host a festive ‘Light up for Iggy’, a Christmas tractor run and family fun day on Sunday, December 28, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, bringing families, farmers and the wider community together for an excellent cause.",
            "content": "The Galway Plaza will host a festive ‘Light up for Iggy’, a Christmas tractor run and family fun day on Sunday, December 28, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, bringing families, farmers and the wider community together for an excellent cause.\nThe event will fea... [1879 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/148813/light-up-for-iggy",
            "image": "https://www.advertiser.ie/images/2025/12/148813.jpg?fbrefresh=fa857fc07771",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-18T00:01:53Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6e94f74aa91307c69cadf9396ae6c7d5",
                "name": "Galway Advertiser",
                "url": "https://www.advertiser.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fe24ff31da1781fee6eccc3ee7ec9467",
            "title": "Irish employment market seeing surge of 'job hugging'",
            "description": "A drop off in advertised vacancies has led to a rise of \"job hugging\", the trend of workers reducing their job searches and staying put in their current roles.",
            "content": "A drop off in advertised vacancies has led to a rise of \"job hugging\", the trend of workers reducing their job searches and staying put in their current roles.\nNew data published by LinkedIn has highlighted the growing competition professionals face ... [1363 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1218/1549546-linkedin/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/000d2e16-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-18T00:01:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7dde9efec077662aae2cf45227b1c995",
            "title": "Half of fraud incidents reported to AIB started via text",
            "description": "More than half of payment fraud incidents reported by AIB customers this year originated from text messages.",
            "content": "More than half of payment fraud incidents reported by AIB customers this year originated from text messages.\nThe bank said the practice, known as smishing, accounted for 57% of the reported frauds during the first ten months of 2025.\nThe figures were... [3149 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/1218/1549556-text-message-fraud/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/0021c8b3-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-18T00:01:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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