Ireland explanatory-news monitoring
Use TheJournal.ie endpoints to turn ireland explanatory-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
TheJournal.ie is an Irish digital-native newsroom. Follow Ireland, world, politics, business, fact check, and explainer coverage through structured public feeds and article records for Ireland explanatory-news monitoring.
Extract Irish breaking news, explainers, fact checking, public interest, and community reporting from TheJournal.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "TheJournal.ie",
"endpoint": "thejournal-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/thejournal/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Irish breaking news, explainers, fact checking, public interest, and community reporting from TheJournal.
Use TheJournal.ie endpoints to turn ireland explanatory-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use TheJournal.ie endpoints to turn thejournal.ie section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use TheJournal.ie endpoints to turn article and byline research for irish civic, policy, and verification researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live TheJournal.ie endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented TheJournal.ie endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those TheJournal.ie endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 TheJournal.ie endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
TheJournal.ie endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
5 hosted MCP tools back the TheJournal.ie endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/thejournal/article
/thejournal/author
/thejournal/headlines
/thejournal/news
/thejournal/sections
Endpoint catalog
/thejournal/articleReturns public TheJournal.ie article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Stories are served in full to anonymous readers, so paywalled is never set.
MCP tool thejournal_article
/thejournal/authorReturns one TheJournal.ie author's public archive page: name, numeric author id, and the most recent articles the first page lists.
MCP tool thejournal_author
/thejournal/headlinesReturns current headlines from one public TheJournal.ie section listing page, with the story type label, summary and image when the page shows them.
MCP tool thejournal_headlines
/thejournal/newsReturns the latest TheJournal.ie stories across all sections. Each item has a title, canonical URL, short summary, publication time (RFC 3339, UTC) and lead image. Items carry no author byline; the article endpoint supplies it. It takes no parameters.
MCP tool thejournal_news
/thejournal/sectionsLists the 22 TheJournal.ie sections that the headlines endpoint accepts, verified 2026-09-25: nine category pages such as `irish`, `politics` and `business`, plus topic pages such as `housing`, `courts`, `ukraine` and `gaza`. Each entry has a `slug`, `name` and listing page `url`. Topic pages outside the site navigation are not served.
MCP tool thejournal_sections
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How to scrape TheJournal.ie
TheJournal.ie is an Irish digital-native newsroom known for breaking reports, explainers, fact checks, and public-interest coverage. Those formats serve different research purposes: a fact check evaluates a circulating claim, while an explainer supplies background to a policy debate. Preserve the format and the claim being examined so a verification dataset does not count the false assertion as a confirmed event.
Call /thejournal/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Identify Ireland, politics, world, explainer, and fact-check coverage in the section list. Use the dedicated format where available instead of a broad latest feed.
Use /thejournal/headlines for a selected section and /thejournal/news for the broader current stream. Collect current stories and record when they were published. For a fact check, keep the claim and verdict separate from the article's own reporting.
Pass a canonical public URL to /thejournal/article and use /thejournal/author for the named contributor when available. Read the article and author details, including cited evidence and any visible corrections. The Journal's FactCheck policy says significant additions and factual corrections are noted at the bottom of the article, and verdict changes are explained. This policy is specific to FactCheck; retain the original URL so a reviewer can inspect its reasoning and update history.
FAQ
Its fact-check coverage can supply candidate cases. Save the exact claim, publisher verdict, evidence links, author, and date as separate fields; a claim repeated in a headline must not be promoted to a true statement.
Label them as context rather than new events unless the article reports a fresh development. Link an explainer to the underlying policy or issue, and keep its own publication date for provenance.
The publisher says significant additions and factual corrections are described at the bottom of a FactCheck, and verdict changes are explained in the article. Re-fetch the article when auditing a verdict; the policy applies to FactCheck content, not automatically to every Journal story.