News from Ireland
31,661 news articles from publishers in Ireland, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.irishtimes.com with 7,191 articles, 22.7% of the total, followed by www.ireland-live.ie, extra.ie. By language it splits into English (31,335), Arabic (327). Daily volume averages about 1,163 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 1,455 on 2026-09-03.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IE&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=IE&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Ireland articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IE&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T12:09 | Citizenship rules to be tightened with longer residency and language test | www.thejournal.ie |
2026-09-07T11:53 | Are you trying to buy your first home? We want to hear from you | www.thejournal.ie |
2026-09-07T11:43 | Joe and the Juice set to move into well-known Dublin café premises as it launches second outlet | www.irelandview.com |
2026-09-07T11:42 | Ring Rowing Club duo Noel Creedon and Neil O’Sullivan strike gold at coastal championships | www.southernstar.ie |
2026-09-07T11:37 | Ticketmaster accused of 'misleading' consumers over Oasis Croke Park ticket sales | www.thejournal.ie |
2026-09-07T11:36 | Garda and Colombian police join forces to combat West Cork drug trafficking | www.southernstar.ie |
2026-09-07T11:28 | Sinn Féin MEP says data centres getting gas price cut would be 'deeply unfair' | www.thejournal.ie |
2026-09-07T11:18 | Man returned for trial at Derry Crown Court on child rape charges | www.derrynow.com |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.irishtimes.com | 7,191 | 22.7% | query |
www.ireland-live.ie | 3,625 | 11.4% | query |
extra.ie | 2,871 | 9.1% | query |
www.thejournal.ie | 2,263 | 7.1% | query |
www.southernstar.ie | 1,398 | 4.4% | query |
www.irishmirror.ie | 837 | 2.6% | query |
www.echo.ie | 816 | 2.6% | query |
www.the42.ie | 680 | 2.1% | query |
www.donegallive.ie | 529 | 1.7% | query |
www.irishpost.com | 469 | 1.5% | query |
www.limerickleader.ie | 463 | 1.5% | query |
www.leinsterexpress.ie | 414 | 1.3% | query |
www.dundalkdemocrat.ie | 412 | 1.3% | query |
www.leinsterleader.ie | 404 | 1.3% | query |
www.kildarenow.com | 402 | 1.3% | query |
evoke.ie | 391 | 1.2% | query |
www.tipperarylive.ie | 389 | 1.2% | query |
tvbrackets.irish | 384 | 1.2% | query |
www.travelextra.ie | 382 | 1.2% | query |
arabdublin.ie | 327 | 1.0% | query |
www.longfordleader.ie | 319 | 1.0% | query |
www.offalyexpress.ie | 318 | 1.0% | query |
www.kilkennypeople.ie | 303 | 1.0% | query |
www.derrynow.com | 295 | 0.9% | query |
www.mayonews.ie | 253 | 0.8% | query |
Languages published in Ireland
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
Domain zones used by Ireland publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| ie | Ireland | 20,996 | 66.3% |
| com | global commercial | 9,986 | 31.5% |
| irish | irish | 384 | 1.2% |
| org | organisations | 138 | 0.4% |
| net | global network | 76 | 0.2% |
| fm | fm | 1 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 481 | |
2026-09-06 | 1,162 | |
2026-09-05 | 1,147 | |
2026-09-04 | 1,252 | |
2026-09-03 | 1,455 | |
2026-09-02 | 1,395 | |
2026-09-01 | 1,342 | |
2026-08-31 | 1,073 | |
2026-08-30 | 1,189 | |
2026-08-29 | 956 | |
2026-08-28 | 1,357 | |
2026-08-27 | 1,426 | |
2026-08-26 | 1,315 | |
2026-08-25 | 803 |
Combine with other filters
# Ireland, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IE&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Ireland, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IE&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Ireland, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IE&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"