{"id":448978,"date":"2026-05-14T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448978\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:24:10","slug":"kick-off-times-for-irelands-nations-championship-games-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448978\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-off times for Ireland\u2019s Nations Championship games confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Andrew Porter is tackled by Australia's Jake Gordon at the Aviva Stadium in 2025. Photo : David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/be9dd24b-c7d4-4f0e-bbde-286796f060b1.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)\">Ireland&#8217;s Andrew Porter is tackled by Australia&#8217;s Jake Gordon at the Aviva Stadium in 2025. Photo : David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile<\/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 kick-off times for Ireland\u2019s inaugural Nations Championship fixtures have been confirmed, with Dublin set for two night-time fixtures in November.<\/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 Nations Championship replaces the traditional summer and November internationals, with Ireland facing New Zealand, Japan and Australia in the summer and then welcoming Argentina, Fiji and South Africa in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Andrew Porter is tackled by Australia&#8217;s Jake Gordon at the Aviva Stadium in 2025. Photo : David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,4174,43,16766],"class_list":["post-448978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448978","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=448978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}