{"id":325866,"date":"2026-03-03T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:52:11","slug":"six-nations-trophy-to-be-replaced-due-to-fire-damage-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325866\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations trophy to be replaced due to fire damage \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE SIX NATIONS trophy will be \u201cretired from ceremonial use\u201d and replaced after suffering fire damage in an accident during transit, tournament organisers said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The trophy was damaged when the vehicle transporting it was involved in an accident in Ireland after the third round of matches.<\/p>\n<p>No passengers were injured but it was deemed the trophy could not be restored to its original state, according to the manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 2015 to reflect the tournament\u2019s expansion to six teams, the 75\u2011centimetre silver trophy will be replaced by an \u201cidentical\u201d replica for the rest of this year\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n<p>A new trophy will be commissioned for the 2027 edition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst this accident is hugely unfortunate, the situation adds another chapter to the history of a trophy that represents one of global sport\u2019s most celebrated tournaments, with its roots reaching back to 1883,\u201d said a statement on the Six Nations website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2013 \u00a9 AFP 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE SIX NATIONS trophy will be \u201cretired from ceremonial use\u201d and replaced after suffering fire damage in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,3654,15551,40,38,41,39,150901],"class_list":["post-325866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-six-nations","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325866","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=325866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}