{"id":547318,"date":"2026-07-13T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:47:09","slug":"new-zealand-v-ireland-in-the-nations-championship-kick-off-time-tv-details-and-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547318\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand v Ireland in the Nations Championship: Kick-off time, TV details and everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But it doesn\u2019t get much tougher than that either for the Irish rugby team but that is the challenge they face this weekend in the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But Andy Farrell\u2019s side come into this match with a decent bit of momentum having beaten Japan last Saturday, which followed their impressive victory over Australia the weekend before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Can they make it three wins out of three? Time will tell but here is everything you need to know as Ireland chase another historic victory against the All Blacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Where is the game being played?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand is the venue for the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">What time is kick-off?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kick-off has been set for 7:10pm locally or 8:10am Irish time on Saturday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Where to watch?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealand v Ireland will be broadcast live on Virgin Media One, but you can also follow the best of the action on the Irish Examiner\u2019s new and improved liveblog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Who\u2019s the referee?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nic Berry will be the man in the middle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Team news<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Andy Farrell and Dave Rennie will name their respective teams later in the week and as soon as they do, they will be posted on our website so stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But it doesn\u2019t get much tougher than that either for the Irish rugby team but that is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54046,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-547318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-irish-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547318","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=547318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}