Ireland Sports News API

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

Get API key for the Ireland Sports 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=sports&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 248428,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0eb3de1367a5edc909d75b1a411ef8dd",
            "title": "We had a feeling we could catch Donegal off guard",
            "description": "They had a feeling, the Corkmen. As they boarded the short flight up to Derry before bussing it to Ballybofey, John Cleary and his backroom team had a sense they may be meeting Donegal at the perfect time.",
            "content": "They had a feeling, the Corkmen. As they boarded the short flight up to Derry before bussing it to Ballybofey, John Cleary and his backroom team had a sense they may be meeting Donegal at the perfect time.\nJim McGuinness' side had looked imperious - ... [5139 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2026/0613/1578294-cleary-we-had-a-feeling-we-could-catch-donegal-off-guard/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/002483ab-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-13T21:40:35Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "05589087e5af4a090a63603c271c8bb1",
            "title": "Qatar stun Switzerland with injury-time equaliser",
            "description": "Qatar scored a stoppage-time equaliser to snatch a 1-1 draw with Switzerland in their World Cup Group B opener at Levi's Stadium.",
            "content": "Qatar scored a stoppage-time equaliser to snatch a 1-1 draw with Switzerland in their World Cup Group B opener at Levi's Stadium.\nBreel Embolo's first-half penalty looked to have been enough to see the Swiss start with a somewhat laboured win, but Qa... [2158 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rte.ie/sport/world-cup-2026/2026/0613/1578226-qatar-stun-switzerland-with-injury-time-equaliser/",
            "image": "https://www.rte.ie/images/002483cd-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-13T21:25:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bcb1c163b5eb62b4cdfdafb99503799",
                "name": "RTE.ie",
                "url": "https://www.rte.ie"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "de712ac08c41990c87634b79a718bd09",
            "title": "Brian Flanagan: 'County Board criticism poorly timed, but holds no water with me'",
            "description": "At last Tuesday’s June meeting of the Kildare County Board, Kilcock club chairman Brendan Nurney said Kildare had gone “backwards” during Flanagan’s two years at the helm",
            "content": "“I was in Salthill last week, horrific, it’s hard to watch. U20’s brilliant, minors great, but it just stops when they get to 21. Football has gone backwards in Kildare at senior level. I don’t think that I’m the only one in the county that thinks it... [3036 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41862237.html",
            "image": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/10236/5118387_2_org_3486641.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-13T20:20:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "634dc62a3fe9c48f4c2cc004e680a220",
                "name": "Irish Examiner",
                "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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