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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": 240194,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "edea074a024d965eedf9a36d37c2c0a1",
            "title": "Man jailed for eight years for what judge described as the worst domestic violence case he had seen",
            "description": "A young woman was treated ‘like punchbag’, forced into abortion and told she would be in a ‘body bag’ during years of drug-fuelled domestic terror, a court heard.",
            "content": "A MAN HAS been jailed for eight years after posting intimate images of his ex-girlfriend on social media and with her family following years of brutal assaults and controlling behaviour.\nJudge Keenan Johnson said on Wednesday that Blaine Parker, 24, ... [8993 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/domestic-violence-blaine-parker-jailed-6940785-Jan2026/",
            "image": "https://img2.thejournal.ie/article/6940785/river/?height=400&version=6940796",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-28T16:16:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4b076cf5299b6d16a1b9fef3b354aade",
                "name": "The Journal",
                "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "97c0bde8b221e1081fb3c02026b514b7",
            "title": "Cell surface glycoRNA clusters found to fine-tune growth factor signaling",
            "description": "The recent discovery of glycoRNAs on the cell surface upended the world of cell biology. These glycoRNAs were found to form highly organized clusters with cell surface RNA binding proteins (csRBPs), but their purpose remained unknown.",
            "content": "The recent discovery of glycoRNAs on the cell surface upended the world of cell biology. These glycoRNAs were found to form highly organized clusters with cell surface RNA binding proteins (csRBPs), but their purpose remained unknown.\nNow, new findin... [1959 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-01-cell-surface-glycorna-clusters-fine.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2023/blood-vessel.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-28T16:00:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ef7a340d4c17e0a07ef5a86ff11a0a29",
            "title": "Ross apologises to husband of McDonald over biography",
            "description": "The husband of Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has received an apology in the High Court from author and former TD Shane Ross and his publisher over Mr Ross's biography of Ms McDonald.",
            "content": "The husband of Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has received an apology in the High Court from author and former TD Shane Ross and his publisher over Mr Ross's biography of Ms McDonald.\nMartin Lanigan had sued Mr Ross and publishers Atlantic Books ... [1462 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0128/1555598-shane-ross-martin-lanigan/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/0023cfea-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-28T15:35:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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