who head into the final round of this year\u2019s Six Nations against Scotland bidding for a Triple Crown and still in the hunt for the championship<\/a>, will play three of their five fixtures at night, including both home games in Dublin.<\/p>\nIreland will get the 2027 edition underway when they host England on Friday night (8.10pm), 5 February.<\/p>\n
Eight days later Ireland travel to Rome to take on a much-improved Italy on Saturday, 13 February for a 2.10pm kick-off, a game that will be broadcast live on RT\u00c9 television.<\/p>\n
In Round 3, Cardiff will be the venue when Wales host Ireland on Saturday, 20 February for a 2.10pm kick-off before the teams enjoy a week break.<\/p>\n
Ireland will have their second Friday night fixture when they play Scotland at Murrayfield on 3 March (8.10pm) in front of the RT\u00c9 cameras.<\/p>\n
The Round 5 ‘Super Saturday\u2019 on 13 March will begin with Italy hosting Wales at 2.10pm, followed by the clash of England and Scotland at Twickenham at 4.40pm.<\/p>\n
The final game of the championship could have championship ramifications when France are the visitors at Aviva Stadium for a 8.10pm kick-off, with the tournament finale live on RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n
2027 Six Nations<\/p>\n
Round 1<\/p>\n
Friday, 5 February<\/p>\n
8.10pm Ireland v England, Aviva Stadium<\/p>\n
Round 2<\/p>\n
Saturday, 13 February<\/p>\n
2.10pm Italy v Ireland, Stadio Olimpico (live on RT\u00c9)<\/p>\n
Round 3<\/p>\n
Saturday, 20 February<\/p>\n
2.10pm, Wales v Ireland, Principality Stadium<\/p>\n
Round 4<\/p>\n
Friday, 5 March<\/p>\n
8.10pm, Scotland v Ireland, Murrayfield (live on RT\u00c9)<\/p>\n
Round 5<\/p>\n
Saturday, 13 March<\/p>\n
8.10pm, Ireland v France, Aviva Stadium (live on RT\u00c9)<\/p>\n
Follow a live blog on Ireland v Scotland in the Six Nations on Saturday from 2.10pm on the RT\u00c9 News app and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to commentary on Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n
Watch Wales v Italy (4.40pm) and France v England (8.10pm) in the Six Nations on Saturday. Follow a live blog on France v England on the RT\u00c9 News app and on rte.ie\/sport<\/p>\n
Watch Ireland v Scotland in the Under-20 Six Nations on Sunday from 3.15pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will open and conclude the 2027 Six Nations championship with night kick-offs at home to England and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-337084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337084","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=337084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}