{"id":412430,"date":"2026-04-22T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:00:09","slug":"irelands-nations-championship-game-against-japan-in-july-to-be-held-in-new-south-wales-city-of-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412430\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Nations Championship game against Japan in July to be held in New South Wales city of Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Porecki of the Wallabies scores a try during the international against  Fiji at McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle, Australia. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/30675a9d-b90c-4907-834c-cdf9f8216555.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)\">David Porecki of the Wallabies scores a try during the international against  Fiji at McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle, Australia. Photo: Getty Images<\/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\u2019s Nations Championship clash with Japan has been confirmed for McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle on July 11 (11.0am Irish time).<\/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)\">The game will follow Ireland\u2019s opener against Australia in Sydney the previous week (July 4), while Andy Farrell\u2019s men will then travel to Auckland to take on the All Blacks at Eden Park on July 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Porecki of the Wallabies scores a try during the international against Fiji at McDonald Jones Stadium in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,19086,60,4174,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-412430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-international-rugby","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412430","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=412430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}