{"id":144329,"date":"2025-11-17T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144329\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:47:13","slug":"irelands-2026-calendar-revealed-six-nations-schedule-hosting-springboks-again-and-nations-championship-format-locked-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144329\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s 2026 calendar revealed: Six Nations schedule, hosting Springboks again, and Nations Championship format locked in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland players during the playing of Amhr\u00e1n na bhFiann before the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match against Australia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3293468.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland players during the playing of Amhr\u00e1n na bhFiann before the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match against Australia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland will host South Africa, Argentina and Fiji in Dublin next November as part of the new Nations Championship tournament which will kick off in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Andy Farrell\u2019s men will face the Wallabies and Japan in Australia during the first section of the inaugural competition, before travelling to New Zealand to take on the All Blacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland players during the playing of Amhr\u00e1n na bhFiann before the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match against Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,16766],"class_list":["post-144329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}