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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": 257330,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "403997e2a87e1fda1e474b81ce42b3e8",
            "title": "From childhood to midlife and beyond: how to handle anxiety at every age",
            "description": "Talk about your fears, normalise difficult emotions, get up and move: experts share their strategies for managing anxiety at different stages of life",
            "content": "We are living in an age of anxiety. A 2023 survey by the Mental Health Foundation found that one in five people in the UK experience anxiety all or most of the time. In 2024, 500 children a day were being referred for NHS anxiety treatment in England... [13502 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/15/how-to-handle-anxiety-at-every-age",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/49c6a6a90a8daf1fb38488afb5d219be51bf7347/230_0_3522_2818/master/3522.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=64cd73ebda037be7cd1cc924f206c6c5",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T12:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6ce85bfafa0974130e08e1bac43f6de2",
            "title": "Man (20s) dies after single vehicle crash in Westmeath",
            "description": "A man (20s) has died after a single vehicle road crash in Co.Westmeath in the early hours of this morning.",
            "content": "Gardai are appealing for witnesses after the fatal road traffic collision on the N4 at Ballinafid just before 1am.\nEmergency services rushed to incident but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.\nA section of the N4 between Mullingar and Rathowen ... [542 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-20s-dies-after-single-vehicle-crash-in-westmeath/a1633296786.html",
            "image": "https://focus.independent.ie/thumbor/Ox8m0PU61TI12LCIZIKMqwUEJRs=/48x0:572x349/524x0/prod-mh-ireland/dabb36d3-c746-43fc-b826-188eff0c3057/11da59b6-20de-4383-9ec5-1a51059abf80/dabb36d3-c746-43fc-b826-188eff0c3057.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T11:30:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "ae507f956c22e5192e709803bdcb0f18",
                "name": "The Irish Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1d1353eaeee1865c681fa316c6054dc6",
            "title": "Man, 20s, dies in Co Westmeath road crash",
            "description": "A man in his 20s has died in a single-vehicle road crash in Co Westmeath.",
            "content": "A man in his 20s has died in a single-vehicle road crash in Co Westmeath.\nThe crash happened at Ballinafid on the N4, the main Dublin to Sligo road, shortly before 1am.\nThe young man, who was the driver of the car, was pronounced dead at the scene.\nT... [476 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2026/0315/1563519-road-crash-westmeath/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/001eafb9-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T11:21:04Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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