{"id":332601,"date":"2026-03-06T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332601\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:28:10","slug":"ireland-v-wales-six-nations-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332601\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Wales, Six Nations \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder of how the sides will line out tonight:<\/p>\n<p>Ireland have made five changes to the starting side that dominated England in Twickenham.<\/p>\n<p>Tom O\u2019Toole, Nick Timoney, Jacob Stockdale, Jack Conan, and R\u00f3nan Kelleher all come into the starting XV for Ireland, while Ulster\u2019s 24-year-old scrum-half Nathan Doak is set for his Test debut off the Irish bench.<\/p>\n<p>Jamison Gibson-Park \u2014 man of the match against England two weeks ago \u2014 is set to earn his 50th cap.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Landmark night for our nines. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8EHeIwVgdI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8EHeIwVgdI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishRugby\/status\/2029978665782575294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Wales have made three changes, with wing Ellis Mee, out-half Dan Edwards and back row James Botham all included. Out-half Sam Costellow, who was so integral to their improved performance \u2014 and near miss, ultimately, against Scotland \u2014 misses out through injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bath centre Louie Hennessey could win his first cap after being named on the bench for Friday\u2019s clash in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>IRELAND: Jamie Osborne; Robert Baloucoune, Garry Ringrose, Stuart McCloskey, Jacob Stockdale; Jack Crowley, Jamison Gibson-Park; Tom O\u2019Toole, R\u00f3nan Kelleher, Tadhg Furlong; James Ryan, Tadhg Beirne; Jack Conan, Nick Timoney, Caelan Doris (capt).<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Tom Stewart, Michael Milne, Thomas Clarkson, Joe McCarthy, Josh van der Flier, Nathan Doak, Tom Farrell, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley.<\/p>\n<p>WALES: Louis Rees-Zammit; Ellis Mee, Eddie James, Joe Hawkins, Josh Adams; Dan Edwards, Tomos Williams; Aaron Wainwright, James Botham, Alex Mann; Ben Carter, Dafydd Jenkins; Tomas Francis, Dewi Lake (capt), Rhys Carre.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements:\u00a0Ryan Elias, Nicky Smith, Archie Griffin, Adam Beard, Olly Cracknell, Kieran Hardy, Jarrod Evans, Louie Hennessey.<\/p>\n<p>Referee:\u00a0Karl Dickson [RFU].<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reminder of how the sides will line out tonight: Ireland have made five changes to the starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4707,43,15551],"class_list":["post-332601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liveblog","tag-news","tag-six-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332601","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=332601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}