{"id":282498,"date":"2026-02-05T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:48:06","slug":"follow-the-action-from-six-nations-opener-in-paris-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282498\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the action from Six Nations opener in Paris \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Hello and welcome to live coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby\/\">Ireland<\/a>\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/six-nations\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/six-nations\/\">Six Nations<\/a> game, against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france-rugby\/\">France<\/a> at the Stade de France in Paris. Yes, it\u2019s a Thursday night, which feels strange for any international rugby match, never mind a game of this magnitude, but the host broadcaster does not want the game clashing with the Winter Olympics. It\u2019s a tough task ahead for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/andy-farrell\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/andy-farrell\/\">Andy Farrell<\/a>\u2019s men against a dynamic French side, with the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/antoine-dupont\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/antoine-dupont\/\">Antoine Dupont<\/a> as captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Kick-off is at 8.10pm Irish time. Karl Dickson from England will referee the match. Here are the teams:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">IRELAND: Jamie Osborne; Tommy O\u2019Brien, Garry Ringrose, Stuart McCloskey, Jacob Stockdale; Sam Prendergast, Jamison Gibson-Park; Jeremy Loughman, Dan Sheehan, Thomas Clarkson; Joe McCarthy, Tadhg Beirne; Cian Prendergast, Josh van der Flier, Caelan Doris (capt).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Replacements: R\u00f3nan Kelleher, Michael Milne, Finlay Bealham, James Ryan, Jack Conan, Nick Timoney, Craig Casey, Jack Crowley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">FRANCE: Thomas Ramos; Th\u00e9o Attissogbe, Nicolas Depoortere, Yoram Moefana, Louis Bielle-Biarrey; Matthieu Jalibert, Antoine Dupont (capt); Jean-Baptiste Gros, Julien Marchand, Dorian Aldegheri; Charles Ollivon, Michael Guillard, Francois Cros, Oscar Jegou, Anthony Jelonch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Replacements: Peato Mauvaka, Rodrigue Neti, R\u00e9gis Montagne, Hugo Auradou, Emmanuel Meafou, Lenni Nouchi, Baptiste Serin, Kalvin Gourgues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Sign up to the Irish Times weekly rugby digest for the view from the press box with Gerry Thornley. The Counter Ruck is delivered every Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newsletters\/the-counter-ruck-newsletter\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Counter Ruck newsletterOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Here are the last five meetings between the teams:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Last five meetings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland 27 France 42, Aviva Stadium, 2025 Six Nations<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">France 17 Ireland 38, Stade V\u00e9lodrome, Marseille 2024 Six Nations<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland 32 France 19, Aviva Stadium, 2023 Six Nations<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">France 30 Ireland 24, Stade de France, 2022 Six Nations<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland 13 France 15, Aviva Stadium, 2021 Six Nations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello and welcome to live coverage of Ireland\u2019s first Six Nations game, against France at the Stade de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1452,61,60,1449,43,15551],"class_list":["post-282498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-france-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-news","tag-six-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282498","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=282498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}