
Ireland Sports News API
Get the live top sports headlines from Ireland with our JSON API.
Get API key for the Ireland Sports News APIAPI 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=sports&apikey=API_KEY
{ "totalArticles": 6143842, "articles": [ { "id": "92858749ac261002090bb42097523e2d", "title": "‘You don't know what it's like to be insulted for 90 minutes non stop’ - Diego Simeone on feisty altercation with Liverpool fans", "description": "Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone admitted his behaviour was unjustifiable after he was sent off following a heated altercation with a Liverpool fan following the home side's stoppage time winner in the Champions League on Wednesday.", "content": "The Argentine had seen his side claw back a two-goal deficit but Virgil van Dijk then headed into the net in the 92nd minute to condemn Atletico to a 3-2 defeat at a raucous Anfield.\nSimeone appeared enraged by a Liverpool fan behind the technical ar... [1892 chars]", "url": "https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/champions-league/you-dont-know-what-its-like-to-be-insulted-for-90-minutes-non-stop-diego-simeone-on-feisty-altercation-with-liverpool-fans/a804699103.html", "image": "https://focus.independent.ie/thumbor/-LvD3ADymfHDftKxMVG1g8SMZms=/629x460/smart/prod-mh-ireland/ffcf7fd0-4c8d-48a2-98e5-404232d7c9ac/379876e8-db9d-4a50-b6f2-baea72f86da6/-LIV-ATM%20%28144%29.jpg", "publishedAt": "2025-09-18T06:35:49Z", "lang": "en", "source": { "id": "ae507f956c22e5192e709803bdcb0f18", "name": "The Irish Independent", "url": "https://www.independent.ie", "country": "ie" } }, { "id": "17c54a4b4b8c3a83bbc598ad7768451f", "title": "Newcastle v Barcelona in Champions League: The cult of Tino Asprilla", "description": "Tino Asprilla scored a hat-trick for Newcastle United against Barcelona in 1997 and will be watching on as the teams meet at St James' Park tonight.", "content": "Keith Gillespie thought he was going out for dinner.\nOnly his nearest and dearest had other ideas, throwing the ex-Newcastle United winger a surprise 50th birthday party earlier this year.\nAnd a special guest jetted in all the way from Colombia to be... [7228 chars]", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0r01j810gwo", "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/2369/live/a5537990-92e6-11f0-9ef6-83faefc563e4.jpg", "publishedAt": "2025-09-18T05:47:56Z", "lang": "en", "source": { "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34", "name": "BBC", "url": "https://www.bbc.com", "country": "ie" } }, { "id": "03cd6d5aa838366cc8e2b9e4a14ee3f3", "title": "Cian McPhillips and Mark English capable of making 800m history at World Athletics Championships", "description": "Women’s 400m final set to be a thriller with USA’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone eyeing world record", "content": "It’s being billed as the night when the 40-year-old world record for the women’s 400m might finally come under threat, only before that there’s the chance for two Irish athletes to write some World Championships history in the men’s 800m.\nCian McPhil... [4056 chars]", "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/athletics/2025/09/18/cian-mcphillips-and-mark-english-capable-of-making-800m-history-at-world-championships/", "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TML25HEGZQ5Z7RIR3FV24QKKHU.jpg?smart=true&auth=14649b6602d227298e8b3d15914d21982b09e49a7aa2fd3d5b1f57f1eb914513&width=1200&height=630", "publishedAt": "2025-09-18T05:02:01Z", "lang": "en", "source": { "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27", "name": "The Irish Times", "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com", "country": "ie" } } ] }