{"id":595825,"date":"2026-04-09T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595825\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:30:08","slug":"england-vs-ireland-womens-six-nations-how-to-watch-kick-off-time-tv-channel-team-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595825\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs. Ireland, Women’s Six Nations: How to watch, kick-off time, TV channel, team news"},"content":{"rendered":"

England begin their Women’s Six Nations title defence on Saturday, hosting Ireland at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham.<\/p>\n

The Red Roses are back in action for the first time since their emphatic World Cup final win at the same venue in September.<\/p>\n

Head coach John Mitchell, who has re-signed through to the next World Cup<\/a>, is looking to steer England to a eighth-straight title.<\/p>\n

Meg Jones will lead the side as captain with Zoe Stratford set to miss the tournament after announcing she is pregnant.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is everything you need to know ahead of this weekend’s match.<\/p>\n

Key details:<\/p>\n

Who: England vs. Ireland<\/p>\n

When: Saturday, April 11 at 2.25 p.m. GMT.<\/p>\n

Where: Allianz Stadium, Twickenham in London<\/p>\n

Referee: Precious Pazani (ZRU)<\/p>\n

Assistant Referees: Jess Ling (RA), Zoe Naude (SARU)<\/p>\n

Television Match Official: Aaron Paterson (NZR)<\/p>\n

Where is England vs. Ireland being broadcast?England won the World Cup in September.\u00a0Peter Nicholls\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The match will be televised on the BBC One in the U.K. and on RT\u00c9 in Ireland. Radio commentary will be on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

ESPN will have live updates of the match.<\/p>\n

Team news:<\/p>\n

Starting XV: 1. Kelsey Clifford, 2. Amy Cokayne, 3. Sarah Bern, 4. Morwenna Talling, 5. Lilli Ives Campion, 6. Maddie Feaunati, 7. Sadia Kabeya, 8. Alex Matthews, 9. Lucy Packer, 10. Holly Aitchison, 11. Claudia Moloney-MacDonald, 12. Helena Rowland, 13. Megan Jones (captain), 14. Jess Breach, 15. Ellie Kildunne<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16. Connie Powell, 17. Mackenzie Carson, 18. Maud Muir, 19. Haineala Lutui, 20. Abi Burton, 21. Natasha Hunt, 22. Zoe Harrison, 23. Emma Sing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England begin their Women’s Six Nations title defence on Saturday, hosting Ireland at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham. The Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-595825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}